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Tweet Google has taken to its security blog to explain its recent changes to the Web Request API, which have drawn controversy recently for potentially neutering ad blocking functionality. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Database startup Drawn to Scale, creator of the SQL-on-Hadoop technology called Spire, is closing down. Co-founder and CEO Bradford Stephens officially announced the closure in a blog post on Friday. The company’s product, Spire, which provided full SQL support on top of the HBase NoSQL database, was one of the first products to try to blend Hadoop’s scalability with the robustness and familiarity of SQL. That’s now an increasingly…

Tweet If you love MongoDB but are tired of trying to scale it past a handful of machines and a few hundred gigabytes, database startup Drawn to Scale says it has you covered. The company has expanded the functionality of its distributed data platform from SQL to MongoDB, meaning users of the popular NoSQL database can import their data to Spire and see high performance on hundreds of terabytes. Drawn…

Tweet One of my best friends in high school, one of the smartest people I knew, was so careful driving that she would only leave one busy spot by making right turns until she ended up at a light for a safe left. It’s not a stretch to see why thinking about the new Yahoo board made me think of her. Lots of bright people driving 50 mph in the…

Tweet Drawn to Scale, a two-year-old startup focused on making SQL ready for the world of big data by combining it with Hadoop, has raised an initial funding round of $ 925,000. The money came from RTP Ventures, IA Ventures and SK Ventures. Drawn to Scale’s product, Spire, is a distributed database that’s built atop Hadoop and HBase and that aims to do away with standard practices such as sharding…