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In Depth: Dick Costolo, former Twitter CEO: a timeline

Introduction When Dick Costolo announced that he would be stepping down as the CEO of Twitter last Thursday, effective July 1, many investors breathed a sigh of relief. Surely, the wolves of Wall Street have cause to shame and blame Costolo – he was the leader of a company that was showing itself to be weak, at least in terms of its performance on the stock market, which to be

Amazon to use custom Xeon to power new M4 instances for EC2

Amazon has added another VM instance to its AWS (Amazon Web Services) could computing platform. M4, as it is known, uses custom Intel Xeon Haswell-based processors; the E5-2676 v3 is clocked at 2.4GHz and appears to be a variant of the 2670. It comes with 30MB of L2 cache, 12 cores/24 threads and support for 768GB of system memory. Five instances are available, with the largest, m4.10xlarge, offering up to

IBM to use Apache Spark to underpin pretty much everything it does

Apache Spark has attracted its biggest supporter yet, with IBM promising to run most of the company’s services on the open source cluster computing framework; that includes Bluemix, Watson Health Cloud and all its analytics and commerce platforms. In addition, Big Blue said that more than 3,500 of its staff will work on Spark-related projects and will create a Spark Technology Center in San Francisco, California. The company will also

This 'leaked' Wii U-3DS handheld is beyond fake, but we really want one

About a year or so ago I wrote a piece on why Nintendo missed an opportunity to draw the Wii U and 3DS closer together. My thinking was that, with a few hardware and software tweaks, Nintendo could offer better cross-platform compatibility between the 3DS and Wii U, while also allowing its handheld to be used as a Wii U controller. Today, I stumbled on a YouTube video purporting to