Stephen E. Arnold: Excitement at Oracle — Amazon Effect

After reportedly butting heads with Larry Ellison, Oracle’s top cloud executive is leaving the company Kurian’s departure comes just weeks after Oracle announced he was taking a break from his position overseeing Oracle’s cloud efforts, and after Bloomberg reported that a conflict with Oracle co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer, and person whose opinion seems …

Stephen E. Arnold: You Are Your Phone — There Will Be No Anonymnity

Google: Making Cross Correlation Factually Fluffy General Tso Dish? I read “Google China Prototypes Links Searches to Phone Number”. This is one of those write ups which offers some possibly accurate information attributed to anonymous sources or “sources familiar with the project.” Nifty. Nothing like anonymity. But for the moment, let’s assume that queries from …

Stephen E. Arnold: Roubini Trashes Crypto…

Jason Bloomberg writing in Forbes. ‘Dr. Doom’ Economist Nouriel Roubini Bearish On Everything Crypto Economist and New York University professor Nouriel Roubini is perhaps best known for calling the 2008 financial crisis in a series of articles and presentations starting in 2006. However, Roubini is no one trick pony – his research on emerging markets …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon and Special Data — PBI: The Future of Financial Fraud?

Amazon and Special Data Amazon Web Services is ubiquitous with cloud computing and big data power. We all know dozens of companies use these tools, but until recently it was all a little hazy as to who was and how. But, a Silicon Angle gives us some tea leaves to read. According to the story, …

Stephen E. Arnold: Factoids — Dark Web, Child Porn, Lost Time…

Factualities: Believe Them or Not Posted: 31 Jul 2018 06:03 PM PDT Factualities quantify our online world. Today’s data: 80 percent of Dark Web visits relate to child porn. Source: Wired When organizations do not restrict any internet activity, over half of employees (58 percent) spend at least four hours per week, on Web sites …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Content Scraper Open Source

Amazon Scraper Short honk: Want to scrape Amazon content? Amazon has renamed a previous tool and released it as open source. Navigate to Microsoft’s GitHub and download Amz2csv. The tool performs as advertised. One question which we are pondering is, “Why is Amazon releasing this tool as open source?”