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China rejects BITCOIN — META PRO challenges Google Glass — New MAC PRO goes on sale — Former Microsoft exec to RESCUE Healthcare.gov

December 18, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Impala: Another Google Inspired Platform Enters The Mainstream Data World

Amazon Web Services has added support for Impala, the Google inspired query tool developed by big data startup Cloudera. It provides real-time, parallel processing for large amounts of data. With Impala, a developer can load new or access existing data to run their queries using an SQL-like language on AWS Elastic MapReduce clusters. Its faster, more accessible and shows […]

GOOGLE, the NSA’s Trojan Horse — TWITTER: Take that, Snapchat — NOKIA releasing Droidphone (what?) — SPOTIFY gets the Led out — HARLEM scores Wi-Fi blanket

December 11, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

PASSWORD cache discovered — White House targets patent TROLLS — GOOGLE crawling with robots — OMIDYAR on 1st Amendment — The T-WORD

December 4, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

GOOGLE expands Cloud, cuts price — APPLE buys Twitter fire hose — MICROSOFT’s grand cross-OS plan — SALESFORCE capitulates — U.S. students 36th in MATH

December 3, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Wibidata Machine Learning Platform Offers Capabilities Comparable To Amazon.com And Google

Wibidata, a big data application provider, has a new platform for building real-time apps that shows the increasing accessibility of machine learning and how e-commerce companies can provide an experience similar to a giant like Amazon.com. The new WibiEnterprise 3.0 platform allows a company to power a site with advanced analytics that fine-tunes itself, providing better recommendations and […]

Quip, The Mobile-First Word Processing App, Now Imports From Microsoft Word, Google Drive, Evernote, Dropbox

Quip, a new word processing app with an impressive pedigree (co-created by ex-Facebook CTO Bret Taylor and the father of Google Apps Engine, Kevin Gibbs), has seen hundreds of thousands of documents created, and millions of messages generated, since its launch in July of this year. Today, Quip is getting updated with new features to […]

Eyeing Up Amazon and Salesforce, Google Updates Its Apps Marketplace For Enterprises

Google is currently adding some 5,000 businesses daily as users of its Google Apps platform. But it wants to have more, and to help do that, today it is launching an updated Apps Marketplace – the first really big update to the service that offers enhanced services on top of Google Apps since it was first […]

FCC chair: UNLOCK all phones! — GOOGLE Books upheld as fair use — COIN, the all-in-one credit card — SNAPCHAT rumored to snub Google’s $4 billion

November 15, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

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