Frederic Lardinois
Frederic has spent more than five years covering news and providing analysis about technology, the industry and consumer tech related to the Internet with potential to influence industry direction. At TechCrunch, his focus spans from emerging technologies and niche startups to major product advances by industry titans – all innovation focused. Before he joined TechCrunch in 2012, he founded Silicon Filter and wrote for ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite).
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Google App Engine Gets GitHub Push-To-Deploy Support
Last summer, Google started allowing developers to use git to get their code onto App Engine to deploy their applications instead of using Google's usual SDK. Starting today, developers who use the popular GitHub service to manage their code repositories will be able to do the same. Read More
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Telerik Open Sources Most Of Its Kendo UI HTML5 Framework
Telerik, the company behind the popular Kendo UI library, this week announced that it is open sourcing the vast majority of Kendo UI's tools and JavaScript framework features. This new Kendo UI Core package is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, which allows developers to use it for both commercial and non-commercial projects. Read More
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Google Analytics Now Lets You Track Web And App Data In A Single View
Here is a small but important update to Google Analytics: Developers can now create a single reporting view that includes both web and app data. Google says this will help businesses that have multiple digital touchpoints for their users (web, mobile apps, other devices) to better understand them. Read More
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Linode Invests $45M To Switch To SSDs, Double RAM
Thanks to new entrants like DigitalOcean, the competition in the hosting space has been heating up for the last few months and for the most part, it's the users who are reaping the benefits of this. In what is surely a reaction to pressure from its competitors, Linode, the established cloud VPS provider, today announced that it has invested $45 million to improve the hardware and networking… Read More
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UberConference Adds Screen Sharing
UberConference, the popular conference calling service and former TechCrunch Disrupt Battelfield winner, today announced that it has added screen sharing to its service. The company says this was one of the most requested features it has had since launch, and starting today, it's available for all users, including those who use the free service. Read More
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Google’s New Street View Image Recognition Algorithm Can Beat Most CAPTCHAs
Here is an interesting conundrum for Google: it has created an algorithm that's significantly better at reading street numbers in Street View images, which helps it give you more accurate directions. At the same time, though, it turns out that this algorithm is so good, it can decipher 99 percent of CAPTCHAs (those squiggly text puzzles you often have to solve to prove you are human). Read More
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Bing Home Page Gets Some Of Cortana’s Smarts
Two weeks ago, Microsoft debuted its Cortana personal digital assistant for Windows Phone 8.1, which uses the Bing platform to learn about your preferences and interests. Starting today, the Bing home page will also get some of Cortana's smarts. You can now find a set of personalized cards that help you keep track of news, weather, flights and stocks. Read More
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Google’s Cloud Platform Gets Improved Hadoop Support With BigQuery And Cloud Datastore Connectors
Google has long made it possible for its users to run Hadoop -- a framework for storing and processing large amounts of data -- on its Cloud Platform. Until now, however, the only way to get in and out of Hadoop on Cloud Platform was through Google's Cloud Storage service. Starting today, however, Google also makes it possible to run Hadoop jobs against data in its BigQuery SQL and Cloud Datastore… Read More
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Google Cloud Platform Expands To Asia Pacific With 2 New Compute Engine Zones
The Asia-Pacific market is quickly becoming a battleground for cloud computing vendors. Amazon has always been very active in the region. Microsoft is investing heavily there and made Azure generally available in China last month, for example. Today, Google is joining the fray by launching its first two Compute Engine zones in the Asia-Pacific region. Read More
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Red Hat To Bring Docker Support To Enterprise Linux And OpenShift
Red Hat and Docker.io today announced an expanded collaboration that will bring Docker's container technologies to the Red Hat's Enterprise Linux high-touch beta program and its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service offering. Read More
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Google Glass Gets KitKat Support And Improved Photo Browsing, Loses Video Calls
Anybody will be able to buy Google Glass tomorrow, but ahead of this, Google is giving the Glass software an update. There are a couple of new features in this update, including new tools for making working with photos easier, but Google has also decided to remove the option to do video calls from Glass for the time being. Read More
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Mozilla Appoints Its Former CMO Chris Beard As Interim CEO
After Brendan Eich's short tenure as Mozilla's CEO, the organization today announced that it has appointed Chris Beard as its new interim CEO while it looks for a long-term replacement. Beard is also joining Mozilla's Board of Directors. Read More
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Google Launches Chrome Beta 35
Google today released the latest beta version of Chrome 35. While there aren't any major new feature for end users in this release, the company added a wide range of new functionality for developers to its browser that will make web apps running in Chrome better in the long run. Read More
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API Testing Service Runscope Raises $6M Series A Round Led By General Catalyst, Announces Enterprise Tools
Runscope, a service that helps developers test and debug APIs, today announced that it has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round led by General Catalyst Partners, with participation from Lerer Ventures and True Ventures. As part of this investment, General Catalyst Managing Director Steve Herrod will join the company's board of directors. Read More
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Google Strengthens Android App Security With Continuous Post-Install Scans
Google is making a change to its Android security systems today that is meant to ensure that users who install apps from outside of the Google Play store are a bit safer from malicious apps. Currently, Android users can have Google scan their apps for malicious code at the time of installation. Going forward, Google will expand this program with a more service-based system that will… Read More
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MediaFire Takes Its Desktop Apps Out Of Beta, Removes File Size Restrictions
MediaFire, the popular online file storage and image hosting site, today announced that its desktop apps for Windows and OS X are now out of beta. The integration looks similar to what Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive do in that they seamlessly integrate themselves into the operating system’s file managers and save dialogs. Using the desktop apps, MediaFire allows desktop uses to quickly… Read More
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Cloudyn Launches Enterprise Chargeback Edition To Help Large Companies Better Manage Their Cloud Costs
Lots of enterprises are moving to the cloud, but according to cloud monitoring and optimization service Cloudyn, what's missing for many of them is insights into how their different business units are using various cloud services and how much they are paying for them. The company argues that C-level executives want more detailed insight into departmental, workgroup and user-based cloud activities… Read More
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Adobe Launches Primetime 2.0 With Cloud Ad Insertion, Adds Xbox 360 And Roku Support
Adobe's Primetime isn't among the company's most well-known services, but if you watched the Olympics online, chances are you have interacted with it. It's Adobe's platform for online TV delivery and monetization and it counts the likes of TBS, the Tennis Channel, Major League Baseball, WWE, M6 RTL Group, NBC, Comcast, Shaw and Bell Media in Canada among its users. And if you ever watch TV on your… Read More
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Rackspace CTO On Price Cuts And The Commoditization Of The Cloud
Over the last few weeks, all the major cloud providers announced large price drops for most of their services. Rackspace CTO John Engates said at the Cloud Factory conference in Banff, Canada, today, that this is yet another example of the commoditization of the cloud. It seems Rackspace doesn't quite believe this is the way to go. Read More
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Bing Is Here To Stay
Every couple of months, new rumors about Microsoft trying to sell off its Bing search engine pop up. At some point late last year, the word on the street was that if then-CEO candidate Stephen Elop would take the reins of the company, he would sell Bing as soon as possible. After last week's Build developer conference, I think we can now put those rumors to rest. Bing is now a core part of… Read More
