A group of tech giants has come together to develop an open-source code that is applicable to all wireless—connected devices. Under the name “Open Internet Consortium”, companies such Dell, Samsung, Atmel, Broadcom and Intel’s Wind River are working together on a communal concept of the Internet of things. Their first

In the past few months, Hadoop vendors Hortonworks and Cloudera have seen big funding rounds, with many commentators suggesting that MapR was falling behind. Today, however, it was announced that MapR has raised $110 million in combined equity and debt financing. The majority of the funding — $80 million –