Aug, 2016 : Alphabet’s Project Loon Gets New Leader
📅 - Google's Project Loon is hiring a new leader to head up the project. Tom Moore, co-founder of Wildblue Communications Inc., is taking over as a vice president of X, the research division of Google parent company Alphabet Inc.
Project Loon is an effort to launch high altitude balloons into the stratosphere, which will emit broadband internet over remote sections of the world.
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📅 - Wikileaks Released Data on Hundreds of Innocent People - Personal and sensitive data of hundreds of innocent, ordinary people has been released by Wikileaks. Some of those innocent people include children, and rape victims. A report published today by the Associated Press found that Wikileaks published the medical records of “scores” of people, among them are rape victims, children, and the mentally ill.
The AP also states that the transparency group “routinely” publishes identity records and personal phone numbers which can be used by criminals.
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📅 - Magnetic Appoints New Chief Data Officer - Magnetic, the marketing technology company, announced a new Chief Data Officer today. Paul Philips, founder and former head of leading data analytics provider Causata, has been appointed to the position.
Magnetic COO Sandeep Swadia remarked, “We are thrilled to have a leader of Paul's caliber join the team. As the worlds of programmatic advertising and CRM marketing converge, marketers demand high performance, transparency and robust customer insights. They want to coordinate across devices and channels, both online and offline. Magnetic is one of the few tech platforms with the unique data assets to provide that end-to-end connected view. Paul will unleash the enormous value from our data
📅 - Public OpenStack Cloud Launched by QTS Realty Trust - QTS Realty Trust recently added an OpenStack cloud to the many services they offer. Canonical and QTS will also be building private OpenStack clouds for clients in any of the data centers operated by QTS.
Until this announcement came through, QTS was only a provider of IaaS cloud based on VMware. Now, they are adding OpenStack capabilities to help grow the business and go after a new market of customers. ...
📅 - CloudFlare Won’t Back Down to Record Labels - A group of record labels want CloudFlare to stop providing services to websites connected to music streaming site MP3Skull. CloudFlare isn't backing down.
Earlier this month, CloudFlare told a court, that without proper legal proceedings, they can't be forced to block sites connected with MP3Skull.
That move was praised by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in a recent blog post, “Copyright law limits the kinds of orders that a court can impose on Internet intermediaries, and requires courts to consider the pros and cons thoroughly. In this case, as in other recent cases, copyright (and trademark) holders are trying to use extremely broad interpretations of some basic court rules to bypass
📅 - GreenGeeks Recognized in Inc. 5000 Again - GreenGeeks, an environmentally-friendly hosting provide has been recognized in the Inc. 5000 again. With customers in more than 150 countries, GreenGeeks is a global company offering green energy-powered reseller, shared, dedicated and VPs hosting options.
GreenGeeks is headquartered in Agoura Hills, California and was opened in 2007. The company is known for offering hosting options using 300% renewable energy. The Inc. 500 comes from Inc. Magazine and shows the fastest growing private companies found in the United States.
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📅 - Microsoft and NTT Team Up to Offer Hybrid Cloud in Hong Kong - Microsoft's Hong Kong arm and the Japanese telecommunications company NTT have decided to partner on a hybrid cloud project in Hong Kong. With the hybrid cloud becoming the new normal, it's a great move by both companies.
NTT is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, while Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Both offer the right products to make it very easy to put together a hybrid solution for those in Hong ...