How to succeed In a world where the American Dream is dead
(This is part four in a series on how to become (Internet) famous. You can catch the previous installments here.) I spent a lot of time in “Social Media Is Bullshit” talking about how…
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What you missed in Big Data: Democratized machine learning
The past week saw the analytics movement move yet closer towards its goal of making the power of data ubiquitous the enterprise on the back of major new advances in the startup and open-source…
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What you missed in Cloud: Secure interoperability
The hybrid cloud returned to the center of attention this week after the OpenStack movement’s efforts to establish a common operating paradigm across on- and off-premise infrastructure marked its latest victory with the addition of…
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Wikibon sizes up the skeptics as #HadoopSummit love fest begins
By Paul Gillin
As Hadoop Summit prepares to kick off tomorrow in San Jose, CA, the Big Data platform that is shaking up the database industry is also struggling with an adolescent crisis and questions about whether…
Microsoft opens first Transparency Center in Europe
Microsoft has opened the doors to a new “Transparency Center” in Brussels, allowing European governments to review the source code of its software to ensure it doesn’t contain any “backdoors” that might allow U.S. intelligence…
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Google’s cloud analytics focus is a smokescreen, analysts say
Google might have lost the cloud race to Amazon Web Services, but it certainly hasn’t lost the war. Not yet anyway. Instead of chasing its rivals for market share, Google is heading down a…
After guessing your age Microsoft is now guessing who your relations are
Shortly after Microsoft released How Old Do I Look, an gender-guessing, age-telling app that while widely popular was often wildly wrong (it was hit and miss with our own editorial masthead), Redmond has now…
Cockroach Labs gets $6.25M to build a more resilient database
Cockroach Labs, the startup behind the funky-sounding CockroachDB database, last week announced its first round of funding, a series A totaling $6.25 million. The round was led by Benchmark, whose lead investor Peter Fenton…
Report: Android Pay won’t earn Google a share of mobile payments transactions
By Collen Kriel
Google will have to explore other avenues to earn money from its recently announced mobile payments service, Android Pay. Unlike rival Apple Pay, Android Pay will not earn Google a percentage of each transaction…
Apple will launch music streaming service at WWDC 2015, says Sony Music CEO
By Collen Kriel
While it is widely rumored that Apple will announce its new Beats-based music streaming service at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, June 8, Apple has not confirmed this. Just a…