Best posts on Erik Howard from last week
Too many posts to handle? If you missed out on a great post from last month, here’s a quick digest of the top posts that you may want to check out:
- More News of Google Buying Twitter
Posted on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 in acquisitions – Comments: (0)More rumors today from TechCrunch about Google and Twitter. Michael Arrington from TechCrunch goes on to say that Google and Twitter are in early talks of some type of partnership or an outright acquisition.Last year Facebook was in talks to buy Twitter for over a half billion dollars. Twitters current valuation is around $250 million dollars. If such a deal would go through this would be the second time that Evan Williams has sold a company he co-founded to Google.
- Amazon Introduces Elastic MapReduce
Posted on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 in MapReduce – Comments: (0)[/caption]Today, Amazon annouced the availability of it’s newest web servrice – Elastic MapReduce.Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
Amazon Elastic MapReduce
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