While the use of cloud technology to manage big data on the enterprise level now seems hugely popular, this technology beenfitted greatly from the recession-era changes in thinking toward the cloud… Read more »
The Twitter team reported on their blog Thursday evening that the day’s intermittent outages were caused by a cascading bug in one of its infrastructure components, not “a hack or our… Read more »
The term “big data” might conjure images of spreadsheets and numbers, but Rebecca Jacoby, CIO and SVP of Cisco(s csco), told audience members at GigaOM’s Structure conference not to forget about… Read more »
Twitter appeared to be experiencing widespread outages on Thursday morning, users discovered, taking their complaints to other sites around the web while waiting for the company to respond. Read more »
Facebook announced Thursday that mobile developers using the company’s API will now be able to cleanly integrate Facebook’s iconic like button into their design, allowing users to perform the equivalent of… Read more »
How far are investors willing to go to invest? As long as they get wifi on their flights, the borders are extending further. “You have to go to where the entrepeneurs… Read more »
For young, urban smartphone owners, there are few areas of life that haven’t been changed by the mobile revolution. So when Erica Zidel started looking for babysitters for her three-year old… Read more »
Accelerators and incubators are now launching plenty of new software startups into the tech world, but fewer programs target companies looking to build cool new pieces of hardware. HAXLR8R, an accelerator… Read more »
Privacy discussions took a new turn when Newspepper.com founder Hermione Way asserted that women have been raped as a result of location-based apps “like Facebook and Banjo,” and Banjo CEO Damien… Read more »
Facebook has purchased Face.com, a startup that develops facial recognition technology for mobile devices. The purchase could give Facebook a way to introduce new photo-sharing capabilities. Read more »