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SaaSy buy: Atlassian acquires the company behind chat & video conferencing service Jitsi

By Duncan Riley Apr 21, 2015

SaaS enterprise solutions provider Atlassian Pty. Ltd. has acquired Blue Jimp SA, the makers of the open-source chat and video conferencing service Jitsi. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Based in Strasbourg, France,…

Facebook changes content mix in news feed to make it more usable and less rubbish

By Duncan Riley Apr 21, 2015

In a surprise about-face today Facebook Inc., has announced changes to the way content is displayed in its news feed, in an attempt to make it more usable and less rubbish than it has…

White House wants to use games to “address societal challenges” says former advisor

By Eric David Apr 21, 2015

The U.S. government has had a tense relationship with video games since at least the debate about violence in gaming in the early 1990s, but Mark DeLoura, former Senior Advisor for Digital Media for…

A super smart Twitter bot may be playing the stock market

By Eric David Apr 21, 2015

Machines have been disrupting the job market for around 200 years, but until recently, those machines still needed a human operating the mill or driving the combine. But now the ongoing advancements in automation have led some…

Twitter rolls out new policies and tools to fight trolls

By Eric David Apr 21, 2015

Harassment is a recurring problem across nearly everly online community, and Twitter seems to be more susceptible than most. Twitter Inc CEO Dick Costolo even admitted the microblogs failures to tackle harassment adequately in…

BlackBerry’s revival rumbles on with WatchDox acquisition

By Mike Wheatley Apr 21, 2015

BlackBerry Ltd. has made another bold move as its continues its revival, acquiring Israeli security startup WatchDox in a move that once more illustrates its new, laser-sharp enterprise software focus. The once-beleagured handset maker…

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IBM’s first-quarter earnings highlight the difficult path ahead to financial escape velocity

By Maria Deutscher Apr 21, 2015

The industry marked another milestone from IBM this week, but there’s little reason to celebrate. The enterprise technology giant reported lower revenues once again in a bleak yet unsurprising earnings report for the first…

CenturyLink becomes a NoSQL DaaS player with Orchestrate buyout

By Mike Wheatley Apr 21, 2015

Cloud heavyweight wannabee CenturyLink Inc., which is best recognized as a telecommunications vendor, has announced the acquisition of a 10-person startup called Orchestrate, which delivers fully managed, high performance, fault tolerant NoSQL database technologies.…

Blizzard’s eSports head says the studio “learned a lot” from livestream data

By Eric David Apr 21, 2015

Livestreaming has become an increasingly important aspect of the video game industry, especially for developers whose games have a strong eSports community. Millions of people watch game streams on sites like Twitch.tv, and the data…

Sony’s Xperia Z4 vs. other flagship smartphone releases

By Mellisa Tolentino Apr 21, 2015

Sony Corp. has quietly launched its flagship smartphone, the Xperia Z4, in Japan. Why the subdued launch? It might be due to the fact that the device doesn’t have any outstanding features to brag about,…

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SaaSy buy: Atlassian acquires the company behind chat & video conferencing service Jitsi

Facebook changes content mix in news feed to make it more usable and less rubbish

White House wants to use games to “address societal challenges” says former advisor

A super smart Twitter bot may be playing the stock market

Twitter rolls out new policies and tools to fight trolls

BlackBerry’s revival rumbles on with WatchDox acquisition

IBM’s first-quarter earnings highlight the difficult path ahead to financial escape velocity

CenturyLink becomes a NoSQL DaaS player with Orchestrate buyout

Blizzard’s eSports head says the studio “learned a lot” from livestream data

Sony’s Xperia Z4 vs. other flagship smartphone releases

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