Facebook Open Sources their Big Sur AI hardware

Semiweekly Tech Updates  Facebook Open Sources their Big Sur AI hardware Deep learning, while a small academic field for computational science, is garnering huge interest from companies such as Google, Facebook, and IBM. Deep learning trains machines to recognize patterns

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The $3 Trillion GAFAN + MM Is a Whopper of a Beast

Sometimes the research results get interesting when conducting analysis on various metrics in the industry. Over the last few months, we’ve been talking about the big bad wolf called GAFAN+M. Shockingly, the market valuation for the GAFAN+M jumped about $500B

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Latest GAFAN Update

For the last few months now, we’ve been tracking the total market cap for GAFAN (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix) – who are the largest Internet companies in their respective industries. From July 2015 to October 2015, GAFAN’s total market

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HEVC Advance is Drunk on Power

According to StreamingMedia, HEVC Advance, a new group that formed a patent pool for licensing HEVC technology, plans on charging something to the effect of 0.5% of gross revenue for HEVC usage, that is retroactive “to the date of first

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GAFAN Mafia Continues to Grow Like Gangbusters

Although Apple’s market cap dropped $37B from late April to late July, the GAFAN (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix) Mafia continues to grow like gangbusters, adding a cool ~$150B in valuation in the past three months. Their total combined market

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Apple’s Content Delivery Plans, and Apple vs Cisco

According to a recent Bloomberg article, Apple is “assembling a high speed network” and “upgrading how it builds its data centers” because “Apple wants to own pipes linking its four data centers and Internet” to “ensure fast, reliable delivery of

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CDN Meets Virtual Reality Head-On

Did We Get It All Wrong Billions have been invested in cloud infrastructure research, as everyone tries to figure what the future of tech holds. Is it possible that Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and everyone else got it wrong, because of

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The Real Reason Verizon Acquired AOL

The Internet has been torn asunder at the news of Verizon buying AOL. The PR machines are on overdrive trying to figure out the reason “why Verizon acquired AOL”. There are dozens of theories on “why the acquisition” and most

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Why Doesn’t Google or Facebook buy OpenSSL Project

The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort driven by a dozen volunteers. They are responsible for developing, maintaining, securing, and managing the OpenSSL software stack. As everyone found out last week, their work is extremely important to all businesses transacting

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