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Hello Vino Turns to Big Data with Image Recognition iPhone App
There’s an app or two for virtually anything, even wines! The retail market is swarmed with stacks of wine brands, making it hard enough to pick which one works for a certain occasion or someone’s taste. Good thing Hello Vino-- a wine app for recommendations, the best wine and food pairings –has released an update ...
Pageonce CEO on the Wallet of the Future: “Transaction is the Next Step”
The role of the mobile app has become a very personal matter, aiding us in everyday tasks on a whole new level. Pageonce has seen the evolution of the mobile app as a personal assistant, riding a wave of service-oriented developments that have spanned Netflix queues to centralized bill pay. Founder and CEO Guy Goldstein ...
How SXSW is Branching Out for Startups
The upcoming 2012 SXSW Interactive Festival is, perhaps, one of the most exciting yearly events that have allocated a space for the tech sector, as well as startups, entrepreneurs, investors and cutting-edge digital taste makers. Their tech involvement will materialize under Interactive Startup Village which will be held in the fourth floor of Downtown Austin ...
There’s More to Hadoop Implementation than Volume, says Attivio CTO
Attivio’s all about unlocking unstructured data. Coming off the recent release of version 3.0 of their Unified Information Access Platform, Attivio CTO Sid Probstein drops by theCube at Hadoop World 2011 to discuss how this technology is enabling new products across the board. He focused on the tearing down of data silos, removing “artificial barriers” ...
“MySQL Isn’t Going Anywhere Soon, but HBase is a Great Addition to the Tool Belt”
Facebook’s been pretty active lately, launching new features around messaging and timelines. Perhaps you’ve noticed? Well, none of these enhanced features would be possible without developments in big data, and Facebook is one to always look for new solutions in solving its own problems. At Hadoop World in NYC today, Facebook engineer Jonathan Gray discusses ...
Infineta Gussies Up with Pay-as-you-Go WAN Optimization
Infineta’s latest offering is the Data Migration Accelerator, which the company says is the first of its kind pay-as-you-go data migrations service in the industry. It’s based on Infineta’s flagship Data Mobility Switch (DMS). The real perk here is that you can use Infineta’s WAN optimization for the time you need it, and return it ...
ARM is to Server Processors what Linux is to UNIX, says Calxeda Exec.
Calxeda’s stolen a bit of the limelight this week at HP’s Moonshot event, presenting its servers as proof positive that ARM’s new quad-core chip is a promising development for the industry at large. Karl Freund, Calxeda’s VP of Marketing, stopped by theCube to discuss the company and the exciting future that lays ahead. “The more ...
Adknowledge Expands to Facebook, Acquires AdParlor
Leading long tail marketplace, Adknowledge has a pretty strong foothold in every type of advertising (in game, email, etc.) except Facebook. In order to tackle this particularly lucrative area in advertising, they finally completed the acquisition of AdParlor, a leading Facebook Ads management platform. Facebook advertising revenues are expected to grow to about $4 billion ...
Appcelerator Pulls Another $15M, Expands to Europe and Asia
Appcelerator raised an impressive $15 million today from investors Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital, and Red Hat, as well as existing backers eBay, Inc., Sierra Ventures, and Storm Ventures. The company, which develops a solution to allow developers to build apps for iOS and Android while avoiding difficulties such as fragmentation, said it would use the ...
Neo Technology Broadens NoSQL Movement with Spring Data
Enterprise database company Neo Technology unveiled Spring Data Neo4j 2.0 at the SpringOne 2GX 2011 conference this week, the latest version of its NoSQL database for the Spring framework. Neo4j is a part of the Spring Data Project, which is designed to make it easier for Spring developers to leverage emerging technologies in the enterprise, including ...
