東急電鉄と阪急電鉄、東京工業大学は11日、乗客のスマートフォンのBluetooth信号を取得し、列車内の混雑状況を可視化する実証実験を1月から実施することを発表した。東京工業大学が開発した「列車内の混雑度解析技術」の精度を検証する目的だそうだ。混雑情報を可視化して乗車前の利用客にリアルタイムで提供することで混雑の分散を図る意図があるらしい（プレスリリース、TECH+）。 このシステムでは、乗車前の客のスマートフォンが発するBluetooth信号を駅に設置した「混雑解析装置」で取得、合わせて顔を識別で…
Five stories that shook up the enterprise in 2021
There is often a mistaken impression that covering the enterprise is kind of dull when compared to the consumer side of the house, but having followed the space for a couple of decades now, I can tell you that nothing could be further from the truth. For one thing, there’s big money in the enterprise, […]
AWS just can’t catch a break
For the third time this month, AWS today suffered an outage in one of its data centers. This morning, a power outage in its US-EAST-1 region affected services like Slack, Asana, Epic Games and others. The issues started around 7:30 a.m. ET and the knock-on effect of these issues continues to plague the service as […]
Newly minted unicorn Tackle plans to use $100 million Series C to accelerate the future of software sales
Tackle.io, a startup that helps software companies sell through cloud marketplaces such as AWS’s, raised a $100 million Series C funding round co-led by Coatue and a16z at a $1.25 billion valuation.
Oracle joins Microsoft in spending big to dominate healthcare vertical
Enterprise software companies are focused firmly on healthcare. If you want proof, look at how Oracle and Microsoft both backed up trucks loaded with money to buy health tech companies this year.
韓国で電子接種証明書の運用初日、アクセス集中でアプリエラーが発生して混乱する事態に
韓国では13日から不特定多数の人が使用する施設に出入りする場合、COVID-19のワクチンやPCR検査の陰性を証明する「防疫パス」制度が開始された。そのための電子予防接種証明書「COOV（クーヴ）」の運用が同日から開始されたが、アクセスが集中し障害が発生、運用できない状況になったようだ。最終的には初日から運用できない事態となった。スポーツソウル日本版の記事によれば、ランチタイムに近い11時40分頃からアクセスが集中して接続が困難になったという（スポーツソウル日本版、WoW!Korea）。
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SQream acquires no-code data platform Panoply
SQream, a well-funded Israel-based data analytics platform, today announced that it has acquired no-code data platform Panoply in an effort to expand its cloud services. At the core of SQream’s service is its GPU-centric “data acceleration platform,” which promises to speed up SQL queries and enable users to run their queries on more data. Panoply, on […]
Worst Apache Log4j RCE Zero day Dropped on Internet
Couple of hours ago, a remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Log4j2 appeared on the Internet. An attacker can use this vulnerability to construct a special data request packet, which eventually triggers remote code execution. Due to the wide range of impact of this vulnerability, users ar…
Enterprise escalator Impact Rooms rises to prepare African startups for growth and investment
A few years ago, at the start of the fintech services boom in Africa, Oliver Blantern got an opportunity to work in the continent offering advisory services to high-growth startups. For slightly over three years his company, Riverhouse Technology, helped the emerging tech firms in talent sourcing and acquisition. The trained lawyer did all this […]
TechCrunch+ roundup: Credit Karma post-exit, recruiting developers, re:Invent recap
The very day in Feb. 2020 that Credit Karma planned to announce that it had been acquired by Intuit for over $7 billion, the stock market tanked, spooked by news that a virus could start a pandemic.