Red Hat ‘plays well with others’ | #RHSummit
While Red Hat, Inc. has its own public Cloud strategy, it also plays well with others, according to Jason Nash, director of Next Gen Architectures at Sirius Computer Systems, Inc. “Red Hat says: ‘Run…
Sony announces Twitch partnership to livestream smartphone games
By Eric David
Sony Mobile Communications Inc. announced today that it would be partnering with popular video game livestreaming service provider Twitch Interactive Inc. to stream mobile games from Xperia devices. According to Sony, their new Twitch…
3 Facebook changes you missed while scrolling Instagram
Facebook users may have noticed some subtle changes in the past few days. But if you haven’t seen or read about the updates, here’s a quick review of what Facebook has changed while you were…
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Security behemoth Avast targets the enterprise with BYOD acquisition
Another week, another top consumer security provider making a move for the enterprise. Avast Software s.r.o., the maker of the world’s single most widely-used antivirus software, has acquired an emerging mobile service delivery startup…
Panasonic targets U.K. with extra secure smart home hub
This week’s Smart Living roundup features a smart home system invading the U.K., a smart light that brings the sun inside your home, and a smart helmet maker that raised $1.1 million in funding.…
Riot Games invests nearly $30 million in online game tools provider Curse Inc.
By Eric David
Riot Games, the developer behind the fabulously lucrative MOBA League of Legends, has invested nearly $30 million in Curse Inc., a company that provides numerous tools for online games including mod and add-on libraries and installers,…
Microsoft layoffs bury Nokia phones? 7,800 job cuts and a $7.6B writedown
To the surprise of no one, Microsoft said it will lay off up to 7,800 employees, primarily in its phone business, and record a charge of approximately $7.6 billion for its 2014 acquisition of…
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HashiCorp launches its open-core DevOps toolchain into general availability
The one-stop-shop value proposition has been around as long as the data center itself, but few vendors are able to deliver upon the promise nowadays due to the sheer scope of work involved in…
Teen responsible for Xbox Live and PSN holiday outages convicted of 50,700 counts of computer crime
By Eric David
The 2014 holiday season was fraught with network outages for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, and now the Finnish teen who was allegedly responsible for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that brought…
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DigitalOcean raises a humongous $83 million to take on AWS
Everybody loves an underdog, especially in the venture capital community. DigitalOcean Inc. has seized that sentiment once again to raise a massive $83 million in funding for its namesake public cloud, which climbed to the second spot…