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Wall Street Journal:
Tencent-Led Funding Values Fab at Over $1 Billion   —  Two-year-old design website Fab is now worth more than $1 billion, thanks to an investment led in part by Chinese Internet conglomerate Tencent Holdings Ltd.  —  China's largest listed Internet company is contributing to a $150 million round …
Jun 19, 2013, 12:22 AMIn context
Shelly Banjo / Wall Street Journal:
Wal-Mart's E-Stumble   —  After Years Giving Short Shrift to Web, Retailer Plays Catch-Up With Amazon  —  A Wal-Mart distribution center in Bentonville, Ark., serves stores in neighboring states.  The company plans to add e-commerce distribution centers.  —  Amazon.com Inc. has become …
Jun 18, 2013, 10:20 PMIn context
Wall Street Journal:
Maker of ‘Candy Crush Saga’ Plans IPO   —  Candy Crush Saga is lining up something besides jelly beans: bankers.  —  Midasplayer International Holding Co., the publisher of online and mobile games including the popular Candy Crush Saga, has hired banks to pursue a U.S. initial public offering …
Jun 18, 2013, 11:15 AMIn context
Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal:
How Clearwire Became the Darling of Telecom   —  Clearwire Corp. has long been the U.S. wireless industry's most embattled carrier.  In recent months, the money-losing company has also emerged as its crown jewel.  —  The company, which covers less than half the U.S. population …
Jun 18, 2013, 1:05 AMIn context
Wall Street Journal:
Officials: NSA Doesn't Collect Cellphone-Location Records   —  WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency sweeps up data on millions of cellphones and Internet communications under secret court orders.  But as it mounts a rigorous defense of its surveillance, the agency has disclosed new details …
Jun 17, 2013, 9:00 AMIn context
Michael R. Crittenden / Wall Street Journal:
Banks Urged to Better Fend Off Cyber Attacks   —  WASHINGTON—U.S. regulators are stepping up calls for banks to better-arm themselves against the growing online threat hackers and criminal organizations pose to individual institutions and the financial system as a whole.
Jun 15, 2013, 3:40 PMIn context
Michael Hickins / Wall Street Journal:
The Technology That Could Help the NSA Parse Data   —  Modern Computing Is Helping Companies and Governments Accurately Parse Vast Amounts of Data in a Matter of Minutes  —  Five years ago it would have been unimaginable for a government agency such as the National Security Agency …
Jun 13, 2013, 7:35 AMIn context
Chun Han Wong / Wall Street Journal:
In Southeast Asia, the Web Gets Tangled Amid Dissent   —  Southeast Asian governments are reaching for new legal tools and raw state powers as the Internet increasingly enables younger citizens to criticize their long-serving political leaders.  —  Not all these countries are as effective …
Jun 13, 2013, 12:45 AMIn context
Wall Street Journal:
Clearwire Committee to Back Dish's Offer, Delay Sprint Vote   —  A special committee of Clearwire Corp.'s board is planning to push back a Thursday shareholder vote and recommend the full board endorse a tender offer from Dish Network Corp., according to a person familiar with the situation …
Jun 12, 2013, 9:55 PMIn context
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
CIA Chooses: Amazon or IBM?   —  The battle between International Business Machines Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. over a $600 million contract to set up a cloud-computing system for the Central Intelligence Agency shows the growing importance of intelligence-agency business for technology companies.
Jun 12, 2013, 10:30 AMIn context

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Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More  —  Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9.  TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance  —  Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
University makes major investment in big data development  —  As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.