GigaomTop 5 lessons learned at AWS Re:invent
If you still think Amazon Web Services are all about infrastructure, think again. Amazon wants you to manage all your stuff via AWS and it wants to shift the conversation away… Read more »
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Google specializes in internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Beyond its core search engine, Google offers online productivity software including email (Gmail), a cloud storage service (Google Drive), an office suite (Google Docs) and a social networking service (Google+). Desktop products include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only Chrome OS for its netbook offering, Chromebook. Its mission statement from the outset was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
MoreIf you still think Amazon Web Services are all about infrastructure, think again. Amazon wants you to manage all your stuff via AWS and it wants to shift the conversation away… Read more »
Google has posted notice on the Wallet developer site that it is shutting down the API powering digital goods purchases on web and mobile internet sites on March 2. Read more »
Mandalay Digital plans to combine Appia with its own mobile business Digital Turbine to create a marketing network that will bring mobile carriers back to the table when it comes to… Read more »
Object storage is one of the key building blocks of infrastructure as a service. A number of disruptive trends are playing out in this part of the market as public cloud… Read more »
This year’s Nexus 6 is a beast of a phone. Does that make last year’s Nexus 5 completely obsolete? Not at all, particularly after you install Android 5.0 on it, which… Read more »
Amazon says it can wring the complexity of scheduling and rolling back containers with its new EC2 Container Service, which will take on industry-backed Kubernetes. Read more »
Intralinks VIA is a highly secure file sync-and-share application, and the company has released Intralinks VIA 2.0, driven by the goal of bridging the gap between an increasingly mobile workforce and… Read more »
Wildcard, a New York-based startup, has built a browser for iOS where cards — not HTML webpages — are the standard unit that users interact with when surfing the internet. Read more »
The anti-tracking service has also revealed a partnership with Deutsche Telekom, which unlike some carriers seems to be more interested in protecting its customers than selling them out to advertisers. Read more »
Investors were not happy with Google’s recent 3Q 2014 results, primarily pointing to the continued decline of mobile CPCs (2% y/y). Some critics are circling – is Google vulnerable as mobile… Read more »