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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch LA

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles.

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

InfoChachkie

In the mid 1960’s, large mainframe manufacturers, such as IBM, Burroughs and Honeywell, provided complete IT solutions. IBM might not have offered the best printers, but buyers had no choice because early mainframe vendors provided a closed set of proprietary technologies. The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g.,

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. I guess the “stack ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap&# mentality convinced this retailer that they could do the same with cloud services. I see the same again with the entertainment industry.

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