Alan Williamson

RNC research firm leaks data of 200m US citizens

By Alan Williamson on June 19, 2017

1.1 terabytes of data includes birthdates, home addresses, telephone numbers and political views of nearly 62% of the entire US population.
Do you still buy e-books as much as you did?

By Alan Williamson on June 19, 2017

With e-book sales dropping as much as 26% year-on-year, has the shine gone off the kindle?
Amazon will change Whole Foods – but to what?

By Alan Williamson on June 19, 2017

Could Whole Foods morph into an Amazon’s version of CVS/Walgreens like store? Everything you need under one roof.
Amazon buys Whole Foods $13.4B

By Alan Williamson on June 16, 2017

Okay so this caught most of the industry off their feet, with Amazon announcing they are getting into bricks’n’mortar business big time by buying a Whole Foods, the horrendously expensive supermarket.
Email still the king of social networks

By Alan Williamson on June 15, 2017

Around 40% of your emails are being tracked for marketing purposes.
FaunaDB – Pay-as-you-Store/Query database

By Alan Williamson on June 14, 2017

FaunaDB, from the technical team that led the Twitter database team, have come out and announced their offering of a new style of database aimed at the serverless model.