Nebula attracts star investor cloud
The last space shuttle has flown and, instead of reaching for the stars, some former Nasa employees are reaching for the clouds instead with new startups.
The latest, Nebula, emerged from stealth mode this morning, led by Chris Kemp, Nasa’s chief technology officer until last March, and funded by an impressive list of investors – Google’s original backers and VC firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners.
Amazon cloud occludes Foursquare, others
Several popular social networking services were knocked out on Thursday due to problems with cloud services provided by Amazon.
The outages for the likes of Foursquare, Hootsuite, Quora and Reddit illustrates the dependence of many startups on rented remote computing power and the widespread disruption that can be caused if a single cloud provider has problems with its network.
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Amazon floats cloud music service
Amazon – not Apple nor Google – is the big new player in cloud music services, launching its offering on Tuesday while those of its rivals are still the subject of speculation.
The online retailer announced Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player in the US – the first service gives users 5Gb of free data storage online and the second allows them to play, in a web browser or smartphone app, music they have uploaded to the cloud drive.
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