Klint Finley

Klint Finley

Klint Finley is a reporter for Wired, an occasional columnist for TechCrunch, and the co-host of the Mindful Cyborgs podcast. He has also contributed to publications such as Boing Boing, Oregon Business, ReadWriteWeb, Disinfo, and Shift.

Finley covers a range of topics for Wired such as startups, emerging tech, the Internet of Things, privacy, technology law, network neutrality, machine learning, open source, hacker culture, code literacy, and more.

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AppDirect Acquires Open Source Billing Company jBilling

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Today cloud app store company AppDirect announced its acquisition of open source billing company jBilling. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. AppDirect co-CEO Daniel Saks says existing jBilling won

Google Play Rolls Out New Developers Console

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Google previewed the new version of the developer console for its Google Play app and media store at its annual I/O conference in June. The new version has been in private beta ever since, but as of t

Open Source Search Engine Apache Lucene/Solr Gets Big Update

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Today the Apache Foundation released a major update to the open source search engine building tools <a target="_blank" href="http://lucene.apache.org/">Lucene</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://l

Zenoss Raises $25 Million Series C To Automate IT

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Open source IT management and monitoring company <a target="_blank" href="http://www.zenoss.com/">Zenoss</a> raised a $25 million series C lead by Summit Partners with participation from previous inve

Hitbox Alum Raise $4.4 Million For Analytics Startup Anametrix

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Back in the days before Google Analytics hundreds of thousands of sites relied on <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websidestory">WebSideStory</a>'s <a target="_blank" href="http:/

Do Customers Have A Right To Know How Companies Make Money?

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When Google started raising money in 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page didn't have a revenue model -- or at least that's how the story goes. The company's highly successful text ad program didn't start

Autodesk Acquires Social Collaboration Company Qontext

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Today <a target="_blank" href="http://autodesk.com">Autodesk</a>, best known for its AutoCAD product, announced that it has acquired enterprise social networking company <a target="_blank" href="http:

Big Data Company RainStor Raises $12 Million Series C From Credit Suisse And Rogers Venture Partners

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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.rainstor.com/">RainStor</a>, makers of a "NewSQL" database, announced that has received a $12 million series C round led by Credit Suisse And Rogers Venture Partner

Accel Partners Big Data Fund Invests $4.3 Million In Trifacta

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Today <a target="_blank" href="http://trifacta.com/">Trifacta</a>, a company building a cross-platform interface for dealing with big data, announced that it received a $4.3 million investment from th

Open Source CMS MODX Launches Cloud Service

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Today open source content management company <a target="_blank" href="http://MODX.com">MODX</a> is launching a <a target="_blank" href="https://MODXcloud.com/">hosted cloud service</a> to commercializ

GrexIt Turns Gmail Into A Social Task Management System

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Last month I said that collaboration and project-management apps should focus on <a href="https://develop.techcrunch.com/2012/09/04/the-inbox-is-the-new-activity-stream-kind-of/">killing e-mail from w

More CIA Money For NoSQL: In-Q-Tel Backs Cloudant

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Today cloud-hosted database provider <a target="_blank" href="https://cloudant.com/">Cloudant</a> announced it has received both a custom development agreement and an undisclosed investment from <a ta

Microsoft Previews New JavaScript-Like Programming Language TypeScript

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Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser. The language and c

Meet Plasmyd, A Search Engine/Discussion Platform Just For Scientists

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"The WWW project was started to allow high energy physicists to share data, news, and documentation," Tim Berners Lee wrote in his <a target="_blank" href="https://groups.google.com/group/alt.hypertex

Quantcast Open Sources Hadoop Distributed File System Alternative

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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.quantcast.com/">Quantcast</a>, an internet audience measurement and ad targeting service, processes over 20 petabytes of data per day using <a target="_blank" href=

Etherpad Now Baked Into Social Project Management App Wrike

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Social project management software-as-a-service <a target="_blank" href="http://wrike.com">Wrike</a> released a big update today, including in-line integration of the open source text editor <a target

Analytics Company Datameer Raises $6 Million From Redpoint Ventures and Kleiner Perkins

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Analytics company <a target="_blank" href="http://www.datameer.com/">Datameer</a> raised $6 million today according <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1521473/000152147312

Web Hosting Reviews Are A Cesspool. Review Signal Wants To Fix That

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Have you ever tried to search the web for reviews of web hosting services? Search results typically fall into two categories: A) Spammers posting rankings and positive reviews to get a cut of the sign

Adobe Launches Hosted PhoneGap Build Service For Creating Cross-Platform Mobile Apps

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Today Adobe announced that its <a target="_blank" href="https://build.phonegap.com/">Adobe PhoneGap Build</a> service is now out of beta. The service is based on the open source <a target="_blank" hre

UberVu’s Social Media Filtering Tool For Big Brands Is Now Available

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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ubervu.com/">UberVu</a> tries to go beyond social media monitoring by providing actual suggestions of things for social media managers to do. Today its Signals serv
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