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On this week’s episode, we discuss both a lengthy profile of Tim Cook, as well as a full biography of Steve Jobs. We also cover some concrete announcements, including the…

TC AppleCast 11: If You Had To Choose Just One – Apple Hardware Or Apple Software?

This week’s tech news included big announcements from Facebook and Y-Combinator, a sighting of the Tesla Model X on the road, a controversial Indiana bill that has tech leaders up…

15 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week

Apple has acquired FoundationDB, a company that specializes in speedy, durable NoSQL databases, TechCrunch has learned. A notice on the FoundationDB site notes that it’s no longer offering downloads of…

Apple Acquires Durable Database Company FoundationDB

FoundationDB And The New NoSQL

6:00 am PST • December 13, 2014

Databases are the spine of the tech industry: unsung, invisible, but critical–and beyond disastrous when they break or are deformed. This makes database people cautious. For years, only the Big…

FoundationDB And The New NoSQL

Your Database Is Probably Terrible

6:00 am PST • January 19, 2013

Databases aren’t sexy, but they’re the absolute foundation of the tech world, the ground on which all of its edifices are constructed. You probably use a hundred every day. At…

Your Database Is Probably Terrible