TechStars announced an enhanced relationship with Microsoft through the new BizSpark Plus program for accelerators and incubators. The enhanced program allows TechStars accelerators in Boulder, Colo.; Boston; New York; Seattle; and Texas to offer each of their startups up to $60,000 (U.S.) of Windows Azure compute and storage over a 24-month period, at no cost. TechStars,...
According to a new study by the London School of Economics and Political Science, the development of cloud computing will promote economic growth, increase productivity and shift the type of jobs and skills required by businesses. The study, commissioned by Microsoft, looked at the projected economic impact of cloud computing on the aerospace and smartphone services...
According to a job posting on the Microsoft’s website, the software giant is gearing up to enable Linux on its Windows Azure cloud platform. The company is seeking a software development engineer at Microsoft that calls for Linux knowledge and experience. The job posting states: Write high-quality Linux kernel code in the C programming language and the associated unit tests. Demonstrate an understanding of Linux virtualization methods, approaches and deployment. (Including but not limited to Hyper-V, Xen and KVM) Demonstrate an understanding...
Good news for music lover who desperately never wants that the songs that store or purchased get lost in anyway. Google Music has just gained a new feature that lets you to download your entire library including purchased songs. The Google Music already allows users to upload upto 20,000 songs for free and stream them to their Android devices. Now with the add-on...
Amazon Web Services has announced a service name as “AWS Storage Gateway” that will enable businesses to move their data to Amazon’s data centers more easily than before. The service is connecting an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between an organization’s on-premises IT environment and AWS’s...
SoundCloud, leading social sound platform, today at the DLD conference in Munich announced that they hit a 10 million users’ mark. The site is moving in the same path as of YouTube for sound. The site made its debut in October 2008, has had over five million official SoundCloud iPhone/android apps downloaded and over 10,000 party apps have been developed on SoundCloud’s...
Box, an online file sharing and cloud content management service, setting its 2012 sight high with adding the “federal government of U.S.” to its customer base. The company which last year grab Procter and Gamble as its one of the largest customer base for the year with helping around 18,000 users to the cloud all set to big high this year. Box CEO and co-founder...
Amazon added a new cloud computing service to its Amazon Web Service suite, a distributed database called as DynamoDB. The database is currently in beta stage. Amazon DynamoDB is designed to address the core problems of database management, performance, scalability, and reliability. Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and...
Code 42 Software, a Minnesota-based online backup company, which is known well for the popular PC backup service Crashplan, has raised $52.5 million in investment led by Accel Partners with Split Rock Partners. Accel Partners and Split Rock Partners do holds now a minority stake in the company. Code 42 has been doing Crashplan since from 2007. The point then was...
Apple has revealed that iTunes Match is now available in 19 additional countries throughout Latin America and Europe. iTunes Match, since from its launch in November last year, rolling out the service to other countries. With the addition of 19 countries in the list, a total of 37 countries can now access the Apple’s service. With iTunes Match, all your music,...
