Lockheed, NSA Challenge Service Academies' Cyber Skills; Tony Sager Comments
The National Security Agency held a cyber competition last week to test service academy students’ skills in defending computer networks from simulated threats, Bloomberg reports. Students from the...
View ArticleVivek Kundra Announcing New Salesforce Government Cloud Portfolio
Salesforce.com is offering a new suite of government cloud computing solutions with a focus on social media, the New York Times reports. The San Francisco-based company is rolling out a new product...
View ArticleGoogle Eyes Social Media Growth Through Wildfire Buy
Google has acquired a Redwood City, Calif.-based social media marketing company with the goal of expanding opportunities for customers to engage on all platforms, Computerworld reports. According to...
View ArticleGoogle on Buying Spree, Acquired 79 Companies Last Year, Lawrence Lenihan...
In 2011, Google acquired 25 companies or 79 total if you count the startups it bought for intellectual property rights or patents, according to The Verge. Not only does Google rapidly buy smaller...
View ArticleFacebook, FBI Team to Stop Worldwide Botnet
Facebook helped the FBI bring down an international criminal enterprise that infected nearly 11 million computers with malicious software, accounting for more than $850 million in losses. Reuters...
View ArticleAccenture, Salesforce Build World Economic Forum Social Media Wall
Accenture and Salesforce collaborated to provide the World Economic Forum a screen showing popular trending conversations on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus. According...
View ArticleFacebook Rolling Out Updated News Feed
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled a redesigned news feed intended to give users an interface he termed a personalized newspaper, Information Week reports. Zuckerberg said the social networking...
View ArticleReport: Google to Acquire Israeli Mapping Startup for $1.3B, Facebook Also...
Google Inc. could acquire Israeli mapping startup Waze for $1.3 billion amid competing bids for the company, Reuters reported Monday. Citing an Israeli newspaper, Ari Rabinovitch writes Facebook Inc....
View ArticleMicrosoft Teams with Facebook on Open Compute Project; Bill Laing Comments
Microsoft Corp. has joined Facebook Inc.’s cloud initiative which aims to develop and share data center infrastructure designs, The Next Web reported Tuesday. Citing a Microsoft blog article, Kaylene...
View ArticleFacebook to Buy Titan Aerospace to Provide Internet Connectivity Around the...
Facebook is in talks to buy Titan Aerospace for $60 million, according to a TechCrunch article. Sarah Perez writes that Facebook would like to build 11,000 drones in order to blanket parts of the earth...
View ArticleResearch and Markets: US Market for Green Data Centers to Grow 26% Through 2019
A new Research and Markets report predicts the U.S. market for green data centers to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 26.35 percent over the next decade. Research and Markets said Thursday the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Adds State-Sponsored Attacks to User Security Report Measures
Microsoft has announced the company will begin to notify users of state-sponsored attacks that target their account details in addition to the software maker’s current reporting measures. Scott...
View ArticleReport: 5 Tech Firms Support Apple Stance on Customer Data Protection
Five technology companies back Apple‘s resistance to help the FBI unlock an iPhone to assist in the investigation of a shooting incident that took place in San Bernardino, California, in December 2015,...
View ArticleMicrosoft, Facebook to Collaborate on Atlantic Subsea Cable Construction Project
Microsoft and Facebook have agreed to collaborate on the development of a new subsea cable system across the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to expand their cloud and Internet service offerings. Microsoft...
View ArticleSpaceX Begins Investigation Into Falcon 9 Rocket Explosion; Gwynne Shotwell...
SpaceX has initiated an investigation into the cause of the explosion of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket Thursday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida approximately eight minutes before the...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins University, APL to Join Facebook-Funded Tech Development...
Johns Hopkins University and its Applied Physics Laboratory have joined a Facebook-sponsored academic research agreement that looks to advance the development of technology that will support...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins APL, Facebook’s Building 8 Partner to Develop ‘Silent Speech’ Tech
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has partnered with Facebook‘s Building 8 research and development group to create a “silent speech” technology designed to help users type 100 words...
View Article3 Things Execs Need to Know about Social Selling in GovCon
By Mark Amtower There is a lot of buzz about social selling, as well as some misconceptions. Here’s three things to know: 1) What is social selling? It is the process of getting and staying on the...
View ArticleExecutive Spotlight: Interview with Aili Kujawa, Director of Talent Services...
“Innovation is who we are and why we were established.” Please tell our readers about your role for Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Aili Kujawa: The Johns Hopkins University...
View ArticleSoftware Developers From China, Russia Win Prizes at IARPA Facial Recognition...
Software developers NTechlab and Yitu have won prizes from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity‘s Facial Recognition Challenge which aimed to discover the technology sector’s best...
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