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Twitter acquires social media talent agency Niche for rumored $30 million

By Duncan Riley Feb 11, 2015

Twitter Inc. has acquired social media talent agency The Niche Project Inc. (Niche). Although the price was not officially disclosed, reports suggest that it was $30 million with possible earn-outs and employment contracts taking the…

Official: Microsoft confirms acquisition of calendar app maker Sunrise

By Duncan Riley Feb 11, 2015

Microsoft has officially confirmed that it has acquired Sunrise Atelier Inc., the maker of the Sunrise calendar application. The acquisition price was not disclosed, but was rumored to be around $100 million when news of…

#BigDataSV CrowdChat: Follow the Money

By Dave Vellante Feb 11, 2015

We had an excellent CrowdChat today hosted by @jeffreyfkelly, sponsored by EMC Corporation. It was a preview to our event next week in San Jose that coincides with Strataconf, Hadoopworld and #BigDataWeek. @furrier won…

EA exec thinks tablets could be more powerful than consoles by 2018

By Eric David Feb 11, 2015

While mobile gaming has exploded over the last few years, current smartphone and tablet hardware could never compete with the power of modern game consoles. But that could all change in just a few years,…

Meet Spot: Boston Dynamics’s kickable robot dog

By Kyt Dotson Feb 11, 2015

The ongoing work by Boston Dynamics, a leading engineering and robotics design company owned by Google Inc., on our future robot overlords continues apace. In a video released by the company, robots mimicking uncanny,…

future data

The stars in our data: Can Facebook replace horoscopes?

By Kristen Nicole Feb 11, 2015

Why do we love data? For the same reason we read numerology charts and horoscopes. We’re curious enough about our natural make-up that we’ll seek an understanding of our underlying patterns.What if we could…

Free-to-play game platform Playsimo launched in Mexico

By Eric David Feb 11, 2015

Grupo Televisa SAB, Latin America’s largest multimedia company, and online game creator UOL BoaCompra have teamed up to launch Playsimo, a free-to-play online game portal and content distribution platform. “With gaming at an all-time high in…

New rumors to know: Apple Watch fights cancer, release date moved

By Mellisa Tolentino Feb 11, 2015

The Apple Watch is slated for an early 2015 release, sometime in the first or second quarter. And though Apple already unveiled the device last September, many of its features are not yet set in…

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 11: How did The Silk Road Trial change perception of Bitcoin?

By Kyt Dotson Feb 11, 2015

Last week saw the end of the trial of Ross Ulbricht, accused of being the proprietor of The Silk Road under the romantic moniker of the Dread Pirate Roberts. Bitcoin featured in the trial…

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Datameer’s Big Data platform heads to the clouds

By Mike Wheatley Feb 11, 2015

The big Hadoop vendors Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR Technologies grab most of the headlines due to their primary focus on large organizations, but there’s another set of companies offering Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) to meet demand…

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Twitter acquires social media talent agency Niche for rumored $30 million

Official: Microsoft confirms acquisition of calendar app maker Sunrise

#BigDataSV CrowdChat: Follow the Money

EA exec thinks tablets could be more powerful than consoles by 2018

Meet Spot: Boston Dynamics’s kickable robot dog

The stars in our data: Can Facebook replace horoscopes?

Free-to-play game platform Playsimo launched in Mexico

New rumors to know: Apple Watch fights cancer, release date moved

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 11: How did The Silk Road Trial change perception of Bitcoin?

Datameer’s Big Data platform heads to the clouds

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