What is Big Data? 4 Definitions
The talk about big data can be deafening. But what is it really? I was looking at a post by Wikibon Co-Founder David Floyer who did a comprehensive overview on the topic earlier this…
New Relic Announces Python Support, New President
By Klint Finley
New Relic is exactly the sort of company that is re-wiring the services industry: it’s easy to get started, powerful and deployed entirely from the cloud. Yesterday at Djangocon 2011, the company announced beta…
Can Technology Affect Work Hours Around the World?
In today’s highly-industrialized society, we often find ourselves caught in the fast-paced, hectic city life. Busy work hours, heavy traffic, deadlines, bosses etc. People say that regardless of where you live, work is work…
Bizzy + Foursquare: Building on a Social Mobile Ecosystem
As a mobile app, Bizzy allows users to recommend great places to their friends. Now, they are looking into leveraging with Foursquare’s check-in feature by offering Check-out. This offering will enable users to immediately…
The Little Bird that Could: 100M Twitter Users Ripe for Ad Revenue
By Saroj Kar
Twitter is celebrating a new milestone today. Twitter’s blog boasts that 100 million global active users are now tweeting on the microblogging site to share their thoughts. Twitter serves average 230m tweets a day, with half…
Learning Lessons for Building a Reliable and Secure API
RESTful APIs are becoming a standard for gluing apps in a Web oriented environment. Twitter, Google and a host of other Web properties have thrived by developing their own REST APIs. The use is so…
The Evolution of Hacking: From Computers to Cars
Hacking has been a mainstay in the PC era, and moving into mobile, but where else can a hacker go? Each day, reports concerning “hacking” grow and have increased dramatically. As our world becomes…
Samsung + Microsoft = Samsung Windows 8 Tablet?
The Korea Economic Daily reported that during next week’s Microsoft BUILD, the developer conference in California set to run from September 13-16, the company will unveil a new tablet sporting the new Windows 8…
Andreessen Horowitz Invests in New Hadoop Startup
Platfora, one of the latest Hadoop distributors, announced it has closed a $5.7 million series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. In-Q-Tel, “the independent strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to…
Backupify Gets Another $5M, Sets Sights on Google Apps
Backupify, a leading backup provider for cloud based data, closed a Series B $5 million round of funding, led by Avalon Ventures together with General Catalyst and Lowercase Capital. Backupify works by creating a…