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’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
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Microsoft’s Visual Studio Online Comes Out Of Preview, Gets A 99.9% Uptime SLA
Last November, Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online, formerly known as Team Foundation Service, in preview. Today, at its Build developer conference in San Francisco, the company announced the general availability of Visual Studio Online. As is so often the case with Microsoft’s preview launches, the main difference between the preview and this general release is that Visual Studio… Read More
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Microsoft Extends Its .NET Framework With New Compiler Platform And Language Features
At its Build developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced a slew of new features for its .NET platform. With over 1.8 billion installs and 6 million professional developers, .NET -- which launched about twelve years ago -- has long been one of the cornerstones of Microsoft's developer ecosystem. Read More
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Microsoft Previews New Azure Portal, Integrates Visual Studio Online And Basic Code Editor
Microsoft today previewed its new Azure Portal, which will replace its current Azure management portal over time. This is more than just a redesign. It’s meant to make life for developers quite a bit easier and will integrate features from both Azure and Visual Studio, as well a AppInsights, Microsoft’s application- and user-level analytics service. The new portal will be live for… Read More
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Microsoft’s Azure SQL Can Now Store Up To 500GB, Gets 99.95% SLA And Adds Self-Service Recovery
As part of its larger updates to Azure today, Microsoft announced that SQL databases on the service, available later this month in the premium tier, will be able to store up to 500GB of data. Until now, the maximum size was just 150GB. In addition, Microsoft strengthened the Azure SQL SLA and now offers developers the assurance that the service will be up 99.95 percent of the time. The company… Read More
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Microsoft Launches .NET Foundation To Foster The .NET Open Source Ecosystem
At its Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft today announced the launch of the .NET Foundation. This new independent foundation around the .NET framework, which forms the core of Microsoft’s developer ecosystem, will form the umbrella for all of the parts of .NET Microsoft has already open sourced and will release under an open source license (most likely Apache 2.0) in the… Read More
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Microsoft Updates Azure With Deeper Visual Studio Integration, Puppet And Chef Support
Microsoft today announced a slew of new features for its Azure cloud computing service at its Build developer conference in San Francisco. Scott Guthrie announced that Azure users will now be able to manage and deploy their apps from Visual Studio, capturing virtual machine images from running VMs and tools for making it easier to create large virtual server farms with the help of Puppet, Chef and… Read More
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FireChat Brings Its Anonymous Offline Chat Network To Android
When Open Garden’s FireChat launched on iOS about two weeks ago, it created quite a bit of interest, not in the least because it is one of the first iOS 7 apps to use Apple’s Multipeer Connectivity Framework. With that, the app can use a mesh network of local iPhones to build a local chat network, even if there is no network connection around. Starting today, Android users can join in… Read More
