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The Bing operating system: Microsoft bets on deep search integration to beat Google
— ‘We believe typing in a search box is not going to be the model going forward.’ — “A massive transformation of search as a product is playing out in very profound ways,” says Microsoft's Bing chief, Qi Lu.
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Ignition, Accel, Greylock Put $40M In Apache Hadoop Distribution Platform Cloudera
— Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, has raised $40 million in new funding led by Ignition Partners, Greylock, Accel …
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Suddenly, Bing Has What Google Doesn't: Data From 500 Million Facebook Users
— The Smart Decisions series is supported by Mercedes-Benz. — Bing will incorporate users' social data from Facebook to improve the personal relevance of your search results starting today.
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Web 2.0 Summit: A Conversation With Qi Lu. Bing Wave 2 With Twitter.
— At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today Microsoft's President of Microsoft's Online Services Group, Qi Lu, spoke with Tim O'Reilly. He hit on some of his overall goals with Microsoft and search …
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Former Yahoo Tech Star Eric Boyd to Microsoft (via Mochi Media)
— Eric Boyd (pictured here), a high-profile techie from Yahoo who left the company for a start-up last year, is now headed to Microsoft to work for its digital group, now run by another ex-Yahoo, Qi Lu.
| Miguel Helft / New York Times: |
A Hired Gun for Microsoft, in Pursuit of Google
— REDMOND, Wash. — Qi Lu knows as well as anyone just how difficult it is to take on Google. — For nearly a decade, Mr. Lu played a leading role in building Yahoo's Internet search and advertising technologies.
| Kara Swisher / BoomTown: |
Yahoo Search Ad Deal With Microsoft “Down to the Short Strokes"-But Caution Also Advised
— Unless there is some major glitch, there might finally be a search and online advertising deal struck between Yahoo and Microsoft at long last. — Top executives at Microsoft-including SVP …
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.