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Docker use up 30 percent in one year, says survey of 10,000 companies

dockerAbout 10.7 percent of 10,000 firms surveyed by cloud monitoring firm Datadog have adopted technology from containerized-software vendor Docker as of this month — a 30-percent increase from last year’s 8.2 percent, according to a newly released study titled “Eight surprising facts about real Docker adoption.”

The results come as the Docker community gathers...

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Facebook shares up 14 percent in pre-market trading

Facebook shares rose 14 percent, to top $ 107, in pre-market trading Thursday, a day after the social network reported explosive growth in mobile advertising revenue. In its fourth quarter report on Wednesday, Facebook reported that mobile ads accounted for nearly 80 percent of total ad revenue in the company’s latest quarter. That’s up from the 69 percent mobile accounted a year ago. The...
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Survey says 38 percent of all Apple Pay transactions don’t happen in a store

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According to a survey from market research group Phoenix Marketing International, 38 percent of all Apple Pay transaction volume comes from in-app purchases, with only 62 percent of purchases made in-store. The survey doesn’t offer a reason as to why in-app purchases seem to be so robustly represented, but in a press release...

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IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent deployment

Twenty years ago this month, RFC 1883 was published: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification. So what's an Internet Protocol, and what's wrong with the previous five versions? And if version 6 is so great, why has it only been adopted by half a percent of the Internet's users each year over the past two decades?

10 percent!

First the good news. According to Google's statistics,...

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Copyright tribunal slaps Pandora with 20 percent rate increase [Updated]

Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora Media, speaks during an interview in October 2015. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg (credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images)

Internet radio services like Pandora will have to pay more to artists and their representative groups, according to a decision released today by the Copyright Royalty (CRB). The basic per-song rates paid by Pandora will go from $ ...

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Washington state schools connectivity good, but still not great: 88 percent meeting FCC’s speed goal
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To compete in our digital world, students needs access to high-speed Internet, but as this latest report from Education SuperHighway shows, how state governments are progressing with the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to get every school district to speeds of at least 100 kbps per student goes from excellent, to good, to not...
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Research: Amazon won Cyber Monday with a whopping 36 percent of online sales
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Amazon is still the king of e-commerce, claiming a commanding 36 percent marketshare on the biggest online shopping day of the year, according to Slice Intelligence. Slice tracks the online retail business by looking at receipts from 3 million shoppers. Its data found that Cyber Monday still tops Black Friday for e-commerce, counting 74.6 million shoppers who spent an...
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