Social Media Chat – Are Brands Always On? #SocBizChat
By John Furrier
Great CrowdChat today on the question of: Is Your Brand Always On? Think like a media company. Learn how businesses are developing successful brand strategies.
By John Furrier
IoT developers feel the love with new API directory and conference
The month of August ushers in a new addition to SiliconANGLE’s Smart World Series, called Smart DevOps, showcasing the tools, platforms and products geared towards developers making apps for connected devices. To kick things…
Two Tap cuts out the middleman for in-app and on-site buys
Two Tap has released an automated checkout service that is designed to enable consumers to make purchases within apps and without leaving websites. The San Francisco-based startup, which has raised $2.7 million in seed…
Bitglass nabs another $25 billion for public cloud firewall
With the workplace now extending beyond the four corners of the office into the public cloud and the mobile universe, the traditional perimeter-centric approach to securing corporate data has become all but obsolete. Yet…
Gartner drains ‘data lakes’ concept in new report
A new report from Gartner, Inc. calls into question the concept of “Data Lakes,” or large repositories of unstructured data from a range of sources than can be used for analytics. The study, called…
Internet Explorer cracks down on outdated ActiveX controls
Internet Explorer is getting with the times. As of next Tuesday, Microsoft Corp.’s venerable browser will begin automatically blocking out-of-date ActiveX controls as well as out-of-date versions of the Java plugin. Although the official feature…
No sales? No problem. Docker reported close to $40M+ venture deal
Red-hot startup Docker, Inc., the creator of the Docker open-source container project, is on the verge of clinching between $40 million and $75 million worth of funding, according to unnamed sources cited by GigaOM.…
Scared of Russian criminal hackers? Try these 5 password tips
Hold Security, LLC. reports what it claims to be the “largest data breach ever” from a group of south Russian hackers who trawled the web using a vast botnet of hijacked computers to identify…
Honey, I shrunk BlackBerry: CEO signals growth stage of bold restructure plan
After three years marked by wave after wave of aggressive cutbacks, employees at BlackBerry Ltd. can finally catch a breather, according to an internal memo from CEO John Chen that fell into the hands…
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 6th: Thomson Reuters Eikon adds Bitcoin to index, Overstock.com to pay bonuses in BTC, Wikipedia and Twitch to accept bitcoin payments
By Kyt Dotson
Step aside Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters Eikon is adding Bitcoin to its market index—and citing popular customer demand as well as expanded interest in the cryptocurrency as reasons why. This last week, Overstock.com also consolidated…