Presto

Starburst, the well-funded data warehouse analytics service and data query engine based on the open source Trino project, today announced that it has acquired Varada, a Tel Aviv-based startup that…

Starburst acquires data lake analytics accelerator Varada to challenge Snowflake

Starburst, the company that’s looking to monetize the open-source Presto distributed query engine, today announced that it has raised a $22 million funding round led by Index Ventures, with the…

Starburst raises $22M to modernize data analytics with Presto

Qubole, the data platform founded by Apache Hive creator and former head of Facebook’s Data Infrastructure team Ashish Thusoo, today announced the launch of Quantum, its first serverless offering. Qubole…

Qubole launches Quantum, its serverless database engine

The “restaurant of the future” may elicit thoughts of a chrome diner with robot servers and an otherwise hefty amount of Tokyo futurist kitsch, but the fact is that the…

Presto raises $30M to bring its AI platform and tabletop ordering hardware to restaurant chains

The year in analytics

6:00 pm PST • January 15, 2017

Well, 2016 is officially in the past. Between the election drama, the stock markets tossing and turning, celebrities moving on and Harambe, it was a doozy.

The year in analytics

The news that Opera is shutting down the development of its own browser rendering engine and moving to the open source WebKit engine cause quite a stir earlier this week. With…

The Pros And Cons Of A WebKit Monoculture

This is something that may be near and dear to your hearts: Mom and Dad are calling to ask about this porn pop-up phishing thing they just typed all their…

Hardware

Presto! For the Elderly

3:43 pm PST • December 14, 2006

As we reported recently, Presto is a service that aims to bring e-mail to those incapable of operating a computer. It uses a special printer designed by HP that hooks…

Hardware

Presto: It's for Printing!

9:39 am PST • November 28, 2006

A new service has launched that aims to bring the joys of receiving emails to the Luddite horde. Presto uses a special printer designed by HP. The printer hooks up…

Presto: Because Computers Scare Old People

10:36 pm PST • November 27, 2006

A silicon valley startup called Presto has quietly launched a new service aimed at people who don’t currently have Internet access, but want to be able to receive emails and…