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Stratus Security’s Pete Soderling and BuzzData’s Pete Forde attended at the Strata Conference yesterday and held a session on the “Building and Pricing the Data Marketplace”. Their point was that there’s room for change when it comes to data marketplaces. “But what …
Our Big Data is the Next Industrial Revolution: Strata Keynote Highlights, Day 2
The Strata Conference really kicked into high gear yesterday, and the second day of the sold-out event featured multiple speakers, kicking-off with Conference co-chair Edd Dumbill’s opening introductions. He discussed William Smith‘s map of geological strata in the British Isles and the …
Digg Execs Strike Gold as Revision3 Turns Profits
Revision3, a side project of Digg CEO Matt Williams, reached profitability not too long ago, ushered in by its immense growth figures. Revision3 experienced 80 percent year-over-year revenue growth and is the top independent video channel on Roku, but Digg.com itself is …
Excessive Yahoo Data Usage on Windows Phone 7 – Who’s to Blame?
Yahoo! Mail was found out yesterday, having been revealed as the culprit causing excessive data usage on Windows Phone 7 devices. But pointing a finger at the core of this issue is a bit trickier than that. Windows Phone 7 communicates to …
Pervasive Software Talks Hadoop, Launches DataRush 5.0
Cloud innovator Pervasive Software, which is here at the O’Reilly Strata ‘Making Data Work’ Conference with us this week, is taking the opportunity to discuss and demonstrate some open cloud solutions for businesses. Director of Product Management Davin Potts is presenting “Supercharge …
Scaling the Cloud: Clustrix Takes on Strata
CDS maker Clustrix is with us at the O’Reilly Strata Conference today, where it will be demonstrating its ultra-scalable Clustrix Series 4000 appliances. The company earlier announced its accelerating global growth, and this time it’s providing an example of just how cloud …
Egypt Internet Connection Restored. What Lies Ahead for Egypt?
It’s been a rough couple of weeks in Egypt politics, with a nation at unrest, a world wondering at their government’s shut-off communication tactics, and a revolution that’s clearly under way. We’ve been covering the story from early on, particularly from the …
Quepasa Acquires XtFt Games, Takes Social Games to Latin America
Quepasa Corporation (Quepasa.com), which operates the largest Latino social networks is expanding its reach to Latin America with the acquisition of XtFt Games, owner of Brazilian social game development studio TechFront. XtFt will be acquired for $3.7 million in Quepasa common stocks. …
Springpad Breaks Record, Adds new Features
Smart note-taking app Springpad boasted a record-breaking January with more than 250,000 new subscribers. Following this surge in activity, Springpad CEO Jeff Janer announced some updates to the cross-platform app, specifically to the web-based version and Chrome extension. ” In response to …
Galaxy Tab Returns Indicative of Immature Android Tablet Market?
The Samsung Galaxy Tab reported pretty strong sales figures and the same is with other Android tablets gradually catching up with the iPad, but return rates are an entirely different thing. According to All Things D, ITG Investment Research tracked POS data …