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Klint Finley

Klint Finley is a Senior Writer at SiliconAngle. His specialties
include IT services, enterprise technology and software development.
Prior to SiliconAngle he was a writer for ReadWriteWeb. He's also a
former IT practicioner, and has written about technology for over a
decade. He can be contacted at angle@klintfinley.com.

Latest from Klint Finley

Oracle Continues Its War on Downtime with GoAhead Acquisition

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Oracle continued its acquisition spree today with the purchase of service availability software vendor GoAhead. GoAhead offers a commercial distribution of OpenWAF, a Service Availability Forum compliant middleware stack for assuring carrier-grade availability for the communications industry. “NEPs [Network Equipment Providers] are …

Twitter’s Open Source Storm Finally Hits

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

As promised,Twitter open sourced its big data streaming solution Storm (part of its acquisition of BackType) at the Strange Loop conference in St. Louis this week. BackType has been promising Storm for some time now, but the Twitter acquisition made some worry …

Podio for iPhone Adds Support for Custom Apps

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Podio is a Danish company that provides an enterprise social networking and collaboration tool that also includes a platform for building simple custom apps through a point and click interface. Today the company will announce support for this building environment through its …

Is Apple Shopping for a Cloud Synchronization Provider?

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

We noted yesterday that Box rejected an acquisition offer significantly higher than its $550 million valuation. The company making the offer hasn’t been named, but just last week Chip Hazard reported that Dropbox rejected a $800 million take-over bid from Apple. What’s …

Google Plus Public API: What It Can and Can’t Do

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

This morning Google announced via the Google Plus Platform Blog that the Google Plus API is now available to developers. You can find more information on the Google Plus Platform site. The initial API release is focused only on publicly shared data. …

Rethinking Skill Certifications: Mozilla’s Open Badges Project

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Evaluating tech workers’ qualifications is a persistent issue when hiring consultants, contractors and employees. Established certification programs, such as those from Microsoft and Oracle, are big, broad certifications covering major general use technologies. But in a world where new technologies proliferate rapidly, …

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