Appcelerator has acquired Singly, a platform that integrates third-party services in both web and mobile applications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Singly will soon start to integrate its AppFabric and DataFabric service into the Appcelerator Platform and Titanium. Singly, founded three years ago, went into open beta last December. Sarah Perez wrote at the […]
Posted on August 24th, 2013 by admin
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Microsoft has announced general availability of Windows Azure Web Sites and Mobile Service, accentuating the emphasis on development using the Azure cloud service. According to Microsoft, Windows Azure Web Sites allows customers to build scalable websites on Windows Azure. Windows Azure Web Sites uses the languages and open source apps of a customer’s choice and […]
Posted on June 27th, 2013 by admin
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Jottacloud, a cloud storage service based in Norway, is promoting itself as a safe and secure haven, free of the NSA’s long reach that it has with services such as SkyDrive, Dropbox and iCloud. According to a company blog post, the files stored on Jottacloud’s service are protected under Norwegian law, independent of the U.S. […]
Posted on June 18th, 2013 by admin
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GraphLab, the open-source distributed database, has received $6.75 million from Madrona Venture Group and NEA for its machine learning technology used to analyze data graphs for recommendation engines. Developed five years ago at Carnegie Mellon University, the open-source data analysis platform takes semi-structured data that describe relationships between people, web traffic, product purchases and other data. […]
Posted on May 14th, 2013 by admin
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CopyTele, a “patent enforcement entity” based in New York, has filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft in connection with its Skype IP calling and messaging service, now used by 280 million people every month. The two patents in question come from Secure Web Conference Corporation, a subsidiary of publicly-traded CopyTele. They are 6,856,686 B2 […]
Posted on May 2nd, 2013 by admin
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Amazon Web Services has once again dropped its pricing. This time the decrease is for two of its services: Simple Queue Service (SQS) and the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). According to AWS, SQS offers a scalable, hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers. Developers can move data between distributed components of their applications that perform […]
Posted on March 1st, 2013 by admin
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Appsecute launched last year with a platform that gave customers a single view across any platform as a service (PaaS). Today the company is showing a change in focus with an activity stream style service for DevOps professionals to see across the multiple services that are used for application management. Co-founder Mark Cox said customers […]
Posted on February 21st, 2013 by admin
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Windows Azure Media is now open to general availability and promises scaling capabilities for streaming on-demand video to consumers on any device. The service is targeting enterprise and consumer services. In his blog post, Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie said that a customer can build a media service for delivering training videos to employees or stream video content to a […]
Posted on January 23rd, 2013 by admin
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Mirantis has raised $10 million in a round led by Intel Capital to extend its OpenStack services for companies seeking to build out a cloud infrastructure. Dell Ventures and WestSummit Capital also participated in the Series A investment. Mirantis calls the funding “growth capital” and plans to use part of it to expand into China where […]
Posted on January 13th, 2013 by admin
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IFTTT has received $7 million in funding to build out its capability for customers to automate the flow of notes, photos, text files and other media between different services in a way that gives the user the ability to control information and how it flows. Andreessen Horowitz led the round with NEA and Lerer Ventures […]
Posted on December 22nd, 2012 by admin
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