With its latest appliance Oracle has officially embraced big data, including Hadoop and NoSQL. As my colleague Derrick Harris reported last week, the Oracle Big Data Appliance, the latest engineered system in Oracle’s lineup, harnesses an open source distribution of Apache Hadoop, the Oracle NoSQL Database, and the R statistical analysis software. The form factor...
According to a MarketWatch report, Adobe has acquired Typekit. Typekit, formerly known as Small Batch, is an easy use service that facilitates linking to high-quality Open Type fonts to make sure real fonts stay intact as they are placed on multiple platforms, such as the web and mobile browsers. The service is subscription based...
Groupon has renamed its group-buying service in India, SoSasta, and made a raft of new changes including new management and a revised focus on content The service has been renamed Crazeal following the less than positive reaction to SoSasta – which is derived from ‘cheap’ in Sanskrit. With the Groupon.in domain occupied already, the...
New social venture Fuse Corps is launching a platform to connect entrepreneurial professionals with governors, mayors and community leaders across the U.S. in an effort drive meaningful social change. The group will identify projects in various communities that address a national issue like education, health care or economic development, then recruit and pair a...
Adobe has acquired Nitobi Software, the creator of HTML5 mobile app framework PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. PhoneGap’s open source platform allows developers to build cross-platform mobile applications with HTML5 and JavaScript, and distribute these applications to a variety of platforms. To date, PhoneGap’s open source framework...
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Last month we reported that Apple’s iTunes U service had surpassed the 600m downloads mark, 300m of which were in the past year alone. And now it seems that The Open University in the UK is leading the university pack, notching over 40m downloads, reports the BBC. iTunes U is basically the iTunes Store...
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