Google BigQuery is getting a number of new updates to make it easier to analyze large amounts of data quickly and at a lower price. BigQuery is designed to process terabytes of data, and today’s updates should provide a greater degree of flexibility for ad hoc analysis of extremely large datasets and allow for more sophisticated analysis. There […]
Posted on June 12th, 2013 by admin
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Google is broadening its reach into the mobile app development world today through a partnership with Kinvey, which will provide an enterprise backend-as-a-service (BaaS) layer on top of Google App Engine. With Kinvey, Google App Engine will support iOS, Android and HTML 5. Kinvey, which will integrate with Google’s new Mobile Backend Starter, a basic backend platform for Android […]
Posted on June 5th, 2013 by admin
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Google is readying to move the Google App Engine Search API from experimental to preview status with plans to charge for operations and storage. The news comes from an email sent by a Google product manager to developers experimenting with the Search API. He asked just one thing in the email: to keep the news confidential until […]
Posted on June 5th, 2013 by admin
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Card.biz originally launched in Summer 2012 as a me-too offering along the lines of About.me. But as startups are wont to do, the Paris-based company, backed by Kima Ventures, has since pivoted to offer a service that enables companies to create an org chart and staff directory hosted in the cloud. It taps into the recent […]
Posted on June 4th, 2013 by admin
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Google, LinkedIn and Amazon have thousands of engineers who point their work inward to build better recommendations, search and other Internet-scale features. Wise.io is launching today to offer a similar form of machine learning that does the inverse by pointing its technology outward for people to use. That’s not to say that Wise.io will necessarily compete […]
Posted on May 31st, 2013 by admin
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Google announced today at I/O that it made Google Cloud Platform generally available, marking a milestone for the cloud community and the real arrival of a giant to contend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its pay-as-you-go pricing. The service, now with 3 million apps, is now open to any developer or business. In its post […]
Posted on May 21st, 2013 by admin
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There is a misperception about the new Google Cloud Platform that the company put into general availability last week at Google I/O. It’s not a brand new platform. It’s what Google has used for years. It is Google’s foundation. It is what makes Google, Google. And now it’s open for the first time to developers […]
Posted on May 20th, 2013 by admin
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Google’s stock price came close to its 52-week high on the first day of Google I/O today, hitting $915 per share at close. In comparison, Apple today dropped 15 points to close at $428 per share, 277 points off its 52-week high. This morning, Google stock jumped to $909 per share from its opening price of […]
Posted on May 16th, 2013 by admin
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We are more than two hours into the Google I/O keynote, the kickoff to a three-day event with 171 sessions. But something is quite different from last year. Google Cloud Platform has risen to the tof of the pack with 25 sessions, second only to Google Chrome with 48 and Google Android that has 35. […]
Posted on May 15th, 2013 by admin
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Just before Google I/O, Microsoft is making a big pitch for developers with a high-profile announcement about a new team that will focus on building outside interest in app development on the Azure platform. The group, which will have a base in San Francisco, is part of the Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) group led […]
Posted on May 14th, 2013 by admin
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