Monthly Archives: August 2014

AWS Uses Free Beer to Lure Developers to Pop-Up Loft

With the market for developers getting more and more competitive, companies continually try unique ways to lure developers and Amazon is no exception. Amazon announced Friday that it will reopen it’s pop-up loft in San Francisco. Continue reading

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IaaS Provider ProfitBricks Opens San Antonio Office

ProfitBricks is opening a new office in San Antonio, Texas, the IaaS company announced on Wednesday. The San Antonio office provides access to the areas talent pool, as well as providing space for its growing teams. Continue reading

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Time Warner Suffers Widespread Outage

Many are waking up to no Internet service this morning as Time Warner Cable suffered a major Internet outage early today. During routine network maintenance at 4:30 a.m., an undisclosed issue with their Internet backbone disrupted the entirety of Time Warner Cable’s network, including Internet and on-demand services. Continue reading

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Automattic Acquires BruteProtect to Block WordPress Brute Force Attacks

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired BruteProtect, a plugin and service designed to protect WordPress users from malicious logins. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Continue reading

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