Collaborate Disseminate
Goodcall’s free cloud-based conversational platform leverages artificial intelligence to manage incoming business phone calls and boost customer service while assisting to other patrons. Continue reading Goodcall picks up $4M, Yelp partnership to answer merchant inbound calls
DataStax announced that K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes, is available on any Kubernetes environment including distro-specific integrations for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Google Kubernetes En… Continue reading DataStax K8ssandra now available on any Kubernetes environment
Data platform Splunk today announced that it has acquired two startups, Plumbr and Rigor, to build out its new Observability Suite, which is also launching today. Plumbr is an application performance monitoring service, while Rigor focuses on digital experience monitoring, using synthetic monitoring and optimization tools to help businesses optimize their end-user experiences. Both of […] Continue reading Splunk acquires Plumbr and Rigor to build out its observability platform
After a poke from the UK’s watchdog, the companies promised to beef up filters to strain out those who write, buy and sell fluffy nonsense. Continue reading Fake-review purge: Facebook boots 188 groups, eBay bans 140 shills
Splunk, the publicly traded data processing and analytics company, today announced that it has acquired SignalFx for a total price of about $1.05 billion. Approximately 60% of this will be in cash and 40% in Splunk common stock. The companies expect the acquisition to close in the second half of 2020. SignalFx, which emerged from […] Continue reading Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B
Owner of MAGA-Friendly Yelp Knockoff Threatens to Call FBI After Researcher Exposes Security Holes, Chinese Data Breach Exposes ‘Breed Ready’ Status Of Almost 2 Million Women, Dozens of companies leaked sensitive data thanks to misconfigure… Continue reading DARPA, Yelp, & FBI – Application Security Weekly #54
The decision means Yelp, and other platforms, are still protected from liability for user-submitted content under the CDA’s Section 230. Continue reading Supreme Court won’t consider case against defamatory reviews on Yelp
A ridiculous number of companies are exposing some or all of their proprietary and customer data by putting it in the cloud without any kind of authentication needed to read, alter or destroy it. When cybercriminals are the first to discover these missteps, usually the outcome is a demand for money in return for the stolen data. But when these screw-ups are unearthed by security professionals seeking to make a name for themselves, the resulting publicity often can leave the breached organization wishing they’d instead been quietly extorted by anonymous crooks. Continue reading When Security Researchers Pose as Cybercrooks, Who Can Tell the Difference?
Back in 2013, Yelp was a 9-year old company built on a set of internal systems. It was coming to the realization that running its own data centers might not be the most efficient way to run a business that was continuing to scale rapidly. At the same time, the company understood that the tech […] Continue reading How Yelp (mostly) shut down its own data centers and moved to AWS
The patient claims to have gone for a free checkup, and came out with a $427 bill, plus a $1300 bill to her insurance company. Continue reading Doctor sues patient for $1m over bad online reviews