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‘Russian Google’ Yandex doles out free cloud service ‘cocaine’

October 17, 2013 minterest Web App

Russia’s go-to search engine, Yandex, has launched a free and open-source challenge to Google’s App Engine called “cocaine”. The open-source platform as a service (PaaS), allows creation of custom cloud-hosted web apps, such as the Google-owned Panoramio location-based photo service, supporting C++, Python and JavaScript programming languages, with Java and Racket support in development. The tool is available for download

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Cloud computing, Europe, Google, Internet, Programming, Russia, Technology, Web 2.0, World news

Twitter horrifies third-party developers with warnings of cutoffs

August 17, 2012 minterest Web App

Twitter has horrified third-party developers by hinting that it will in future limit their size by preventing them having more than a certain number of users, as part of a wide-ranging shift in the company’s strategy – apparently part of a growing attempt to generate money from adverts. In a post on its developer blog, Twitter’s director of consumer products