Is Uber the next Webvan? Will Uber go bankrupt?
By John Furrier
There was a report yesterday on the price wars between Uber USA LLC and Lyft, Inc. According to Bloomberg, in a price war with rival Lyft, Uber reduced its rates by 10 – 45…
By John Furrier
‘Yandere Simulator’ becomes the latest game banned from Twitch
By Eric David
While Twitch generally has no problem allowing users to livestream mature games, there are still a handful of titles that have been banned outright, and the latest game to join that list is the…
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Splice Machine bags $9M for its Hadoop-based RDBMS
Talk about old meets new. Splice Machine Inc. raised $9 million from investors this week to fund the development of additional features for its relational database, which follows the tried-and-true formula of structured record…
A Counter-Strike virtual item marketplace is paving the way for bitcoin trades
By Kyt Dotson
Digital clothing is a staple of video game economies–in fact, many multiplayer games essentially fund themselves by selling funny hats (looking at you Team Fortress 2). So when Bitcoin payment processor BitPay, Inc. partnered with…
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Cloudera Director 2.0 takes aim at off-premise Hadoop clusters
Running Hadoop outside the firewall is set to become much easier for customers of Cloudera Inc. thanks to a new iteration of its management automation framework that debuted this week. The release brings a…
8 Ustream alternatives in the new cloud video era
With Ustream, Inc. off the market, what live streaming video services remain for consumers and small businesses alike? Putting an end to the speculation, IBM has officially announced its acquisition of live streaming company Ustream for…
Network virtualization platform pushes hardware further toward irrelevancy | #VTUG
By Tim Hawkins
The VMware, Inc.’s NSX network virtualization platform is proving that hardware is not as critical to networking as it once was. Scott Martin, systems engineering manager of VMware’s Networking & Security Business Unit, sat…
GPS-equipped vultures lead Peru’s war on trash
Authorities in the Peruvian capital city Lima have a new weapon in their war against illegal waste dumpers. They’ve taken to equipping vultures with GPS tracking devices and, soon, GoPro cameras, in an effort…
Google pitches Cloud Dataflow to the Apache Software Foundation
Google is making its first major open-source move of the year by offering up its Dataflow technology to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) as an incubator project. Google is hoping to spur more collaborative…
Tips and tricks for easier navigation on Google Maps for Android, iOS, desktop
By Collen Kriel
Google Maps saw a range of new updates last year for both Android and iOS that allows you to easily navigate to your destination, as well as find interesting spots along the way. Here…