Sunday December 22, 2024

The Omniture Of PR? AirPR’s New Analytics Platform Aims To Show CMOs How To Invest In PR

Startups and PR firms have long had a halting, if not embattled relationship. Spend time talking to entrepreneurs and those working at startups, and it won’t be long before you encounter the nagging mistrust founders have of PR firms and the PR process. That’s why AirPR, the PR marketplace and technology platform, is launching a […]

AMAZON wants to be your desktop — Secret US-led IP pact excludes China — IBM opens Watson to devs — China snubs CISCO over NSA

November 14, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Runscope Offers New Service To Test Live API Calls For Improving The Quality Of Mobile Apps

Runscope, which develops tools that monitor API traffic, has launched a new automated API and backend service testing tool to improve the quality of mobile apps. The new Runscope Radar service, launched here at AWS re:Invent, is designed to alleviate the concerns that comes with changing backend APIs. It allows app maintainers to verify that […]

Chief Security Officer now a key role in many organizations

A few years ago, hiring a Chief Security Officer (CSO) would have been superfluous. However, as companies continue to expand their technological footprint, they are also more vulnerable to cyber attacks. Having a CSO on board is necessary to alleviate cyber-security risks. Much of the challenge to hiring one comes from defining the CSO’s role against […]

Knozen, TheLadders’ Founder’s New Personality-Probing Startup, Closes $2.25M Seed From FirstMark, Lerer, David Tisch & Others

Knozen is the new startup from Marc Cenedella, serial entrepreneur and founder of the veteran job matching site, TheLadders. Cenedella is not giving too much away about his new project at this early stage – it was founded “this year”, he says, rather non-specifically – but he’s just revealed one key detail to TechCrunch: Knozen closed […]

MICROSOFT kills employee-ranking system — GOOGLE bigger than newspaper and mag industries — NY TIMES brain drain: Bai, Stelter follow Pogue — MACRUMORS hacked

November 13, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Short Shorts And Long Buses: Amazon Cloud Competitors Look A Bit Foolish At AWS Conference

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is obviously making it very difficult for competitors in the public cloud market. That could not have been made more clear than how IBM and Rackspace are choosing how to make their presence felt this week at AWS re:Invent. For the past week, IBM has been getting trashed for its anti-Amazon ads that declare their superiority to […]

Amazon’s New AppStream Service Lets Mobile Developers Stream Their Apps From The Cloud To Any Device

Amazon today announced a new service for mobile developers at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today. Amazon AppStream, which uses the company’s recently launched g2 EC2 instances, allows developers to easily stream their applications in high definition from the cloud to any mobile devices. Amazon is specifically marketing this for mobile developers, but […]

VMware spinoff PIVOTAL gets real — iPad Mini RETINA sees light of day — GOOGLE patents lie-detecting throat tattoo — VC’s torch $100M on KNO

November 12, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Amazon DynamoDB Serves Trillions Of Requests Per Month While Counterpart SimpleDB Is No Longer A Listed Product On AWS

An Amazon executive said today at AWS re:Invent that NoSQL database DynamoDB now serves trillions of requests per month to its users. The news is in contrast to SimpleDB, another AWS NoSQL database, which  is no longer listed on AWS product page, a sign that the world’s largest cloud service is phasing it out in […]