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Google veteran's exit takes shine off Q2

2014-07-18 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

Internet giant reports 22% increase in group revenue; net income grows to $3.4 billion.

Databricks takes on Google streaming analysis with Spark

2014-07-01 13:14:19| InfoWorld: Top News

Taking on Google, Databricks plans to offer its own cloud service for analyzing live data streams, one based on the Apache Spark software. Databricks Cloud is designed to provide a platform for analyzing streaming data, much like the Google Dataflow service announced last week.

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Microsoft takes on Google X with its own secretive Special Projects group

2014-04-29 14:45:25| Extremetech

Microsoft, clearly a bit jealous of the gratuitous geeky kudos being mopped up by Google X, has set up its own secretive Special Projects group. The group is being headed up by Norman Whitaker, previously a deputy director at DARPA. Not much is known about the Special Projects group, but a job listing says it will be tasked with "working on disruptive technologies that could benefit the company and society." So far, Microsoft has declined to officially comment on this new group -- presumably it's waiting for a big New York Times expose, just like Google X.

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