Spark is a favourite among developers and data scientists, but why would a CIO need to know about it? John Leonard asks delegates at Spark Summit Europe for their views
Apple's and WhatsApp's conversion to end-to-end encryption has brought secure messaging to the mainstream - but there is still work to do on the convenience side
Status update: Cheerio Yahoo, I've found a new job at Facebook
Search engine that does not store user details booms in popularity after Edward Snowden's NSA surveillance disclosures
MongoDB CEO says the firm has to do better at monetising, as less than five per cent of its userbase are currently paying to use the database
Tests using the Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark find that MongoDB has taken on board users' feedback and improved scalability in its 3.0 release
Non-Yahoo mail users claim that company intercepted and analysed emails in order to boost advertising revenue
Cloudera's chief architect talks about what features he'd like to see, the spat with Hortonworks and what Intel's investment has meant
Police claim suspected Lizard Squad and D33Ds hackers arrested
Yahoo has been a Splunk customer for several years, but now it wants to explore and analyse its Hadoop environment which contains more than 600 petabytes of data