ResearchOutlook: Media and consumer tech in 2015
In 2015 expect the payoff for video ad tech to begin, sharp growth for OTT, and more legal battles for net neutrality. Read more »
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MoreIn 2015 expect the payoff for video ad tech to begin, sharp growth for OTT, and more legal battles for net neutrality. Read more »
Flickr has abruptly ended a service that allowed people to buy canvas or wood prints based on pictures that appeared in its Creative Commons gallery, the photo sharing site announced on Thursday. The decision… Read more »
Chinese search engine giant Baidu says it has developed a speech recognition system, called Deep Speech, the likes of which has never been seen, especially in noisy environments. In restaurant settings… Read more »
This past Friday, Hortonworks made good on its announced intention to present an initial public offering to the market. The shares were initially priced at $16, opened with an initial bid… Read more »
Google has updated its experimental End-to-End email encryption plugin for Chrome and moved the project to GitHub. The firm said in a Tuesday blog post that it had “always believed strongly… Read more »
The past several years have presented an interesting time for CIOs, their staff and the companies they work within. In many ways, the changes are significant shifts how companies have operated… Read more »
Projects like Apache YARN expand the types of workloads for which Hadoop is a viable and compelling solution, leading practitioners to think more creatively managing data. Read more »
In a first for the company, Yahoo will hold a mobile developer conference on February 19, 2015 in San Francisco. Yahoo, which announced the news on Monday morning, is featuring Flurry, the mobile… Read more »
Node.js, the popular server-side JavaScript environment, may be heading for a fork as a group outside of Joyent has posted its own project on Github. has been the de facto guardian… Read more »
Uber’s latest funding brings the company into the stratosphere of private company valuations. At $40 billion, Uber is believed to be four times more valuable than Airbnb, Snapchat, Palantir or Dropbox. Its… Read more »