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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