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• Justin.tv’s Namesake Founder Takes On Task Services With Exec

November 09, 2012

• Justin Kan Launches Exec For Real-Time Mobile Jobs

November 09, 2012

• Can Kaggle Make Data Science A Spectator Sport

November 09, 2012

• How Dwolla Works

November 09, 2012

• ClearStory Data Introduces Analytics for Everyone

November 09, 2012

The company description says it all: "We founded ClearStory Data to make it easy to gather and explore big, diverse, dispersed data for faster and more intuitive insights."

• With MassPay, Dwolla Takes On PayPal By Offering Lower Fees, Support For More Recipients

November 09, 2012

Called "MassPay," Dwolla’s latest addition offers businesses a faster and simpler alternative to check-writing and wire transfers.

• Are Square and Dwolla Teaming Up to Disrupt Visa and Mastercard?

September 28, 2012

• Crowdstrike To Make RSA 2012 Debut With Android Attack Via Webkit

September 19, 2012

A new firm said it plans to make a dramatic debut at RSA Conference 2012 by demonstrating an attack against Google Android smartphones

• Fusion-io Software Turns Servers Into Shared Flash Storage

September 19, 2012

The Fusion ION acceleration software can yield app performance gains of up to 25X

• Appthority Announces New Partners, Extends Reach of Mobile App Risk Management

September 19, 2012

• CliQr, With Google Backing, Puts Legacy Apps Into The Cloud

September 19, 2012

Most platforms as a service focus on helping developers write shiny new cloud-based applications. Startup CliQr Technologies is more interested in putting the applications that already run businesses into the best cloud to run them and then to make them transportable from cloud to cloud.

• Fusion-io Stock Jumps After Strong 4Q Results

September 19, 2012

Chip-based computer server memory drive maker Fusion-io Inc. reported fiscal fourth-quarter results well above Wall Street's expectations.

• Google Ventures-Backed Cliqr Brings Old-School Business Apps To The Cloud

September 19, 2012

In all the talk of cloud computing, Cliqr Technologies CEO Gaurav Manglik says there's one area of enterprise technology that's been sitting out the transition--business applications.

• Appthority Unveils Hidden Security Risks Of Top Mobile Apps

September 19, 2012

More than 86 percent of top free ios and android apps can access sensitive user data.

• CrowdStrike Hires One of FBI's Top Lawyers

September 19, 2012

A security firm known as CrowdStrike is urging clients to get tough with hackers has hired FBI attorneys to advise customers.

• NeuroSky shows off MyndPlay, we control movies with our brainwaves (video)

May 18, 2012

• Cloudability gives Rackspace users free cost monitoring

May 18, 2012

Rackspace customers can now use Cloudability's service for free to keep tabs on their cloud computing costs. As business use of cloud computing grows, the need for such dashboards and metering services will rise as well.

• Cloud Connect 2012 Speaker List: Mat Ellis Founder and CEO, Cloudability

May 18, 2012

• NeuroSky Upgrades SDK, Allows For Eye Blink, Brainwave-Powered Games

May 18, 2012

• Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz And Khosla Back Big Data Startup ClearStory

March 19, 2012

• Coraid And Arista Partner On High-Performance Ethernet SAN

March 12, 2012

Storage vendor Coraid and data switching vendor Arista Networks are partnering to deliver high-performance Ethernet storage area networking that the companies say could offer a five to eight times price/performance advantage over legacy storage systems, and at the same time make it easier to deploy virtualization and the cloud.

• Slideshow: A Brief Introduction To OpenFlow

February 08, 2012

OpenFlow is a specification now managed by the Open Networking Foundation, which defines the functions and protocols used to centrally manage switches via a centralized controller.

• Real Bonding With Family Around the TV Via Skype

January 26, 2012

This week, I tested a new device that aims to transform Skype video chats into room-size experiences, involving whole families or groups of friends on each end -- seeing each other, chatting and sharing photos in high definition using TVs. It's called telyHD, and comes from a small Silicon Valley start-up called Tely Labs.

• Valley View: Hot Trends, Cool Toys

December 15, 2011

Episode 1 of Valley View, streamed live from our San Francisco headquarters, featured Ray Lane, chairman of HP; Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net; and Omar Baldonado of BigSwitch, a company that has become synonymous with OpenFlow, the hottest topic in data center networking. Plus some of the hottest new gadgets.

• White House to open source Data.gov as open government data platform

December 14, 2011

As 2011 comes to an end, there are 28 international open data platforms in the open government community. By the end of 2012, code from new "Data.gov-in-a-box" may help many more countries to stand up their own platforms. A partnership between the United States and India on open government has borne fruit: progress on making the open data platform Data.gov open source.

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