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Researcher IHS Technology expects spending on cloud infrastructure and services to hit $174.2 billion in 2014, up 20 percent from $145.2 billion last year. Perhaps more to the point, it expects this growth rate to continue with enterprise spending on cloud to soar to $235.1 billion by 2017. That would be triple the amount spent on cloud ($78.2 billion in 2011.)

While researchers may differ on how much cloud spending will grow going forward, they all agree that it’s on the upswing — which is why IBM(s ibm), Hewlett-Packard (s hpq), Cisco(s csco), Microsoft(s msft) et al are rushing to adapt to the new model and to cloud-first upstarts like Amazon Web Services(s amzn).

The Structure Show — what’s up with Hadoop

Cloudera chief strategy officer Mike Olson sat in with us this week to discuss his view of the Hadoop landscape and why everyone wants a piece of the…

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A Receita Federal bateu um recorde histórico de arrecadação em 2013 e, segundo o Secretário da Receita Federal, Carlos Alberto Barreto, as perspectivas são boas para 2014. Faltou apenas citar para quem. No entanto, apesar da carga tributária ser nefasta para o país, não podemos deixar de reconhecer as inovações e tecnologias que transformaram a Receita Federal brasileira em um modelo internacional.

Nesse sentido, a Receita vem buscando automatizar as informações das empresas, pois tivemos o ECF, EFD… Enfim, pouco importam as siglas. O que notamos é que o governo terá, em um futuro não tão distante, TODAS as informações sobre as atividades das empresas.

Pois bem, este ano teremos mais uma sigla incorporada ao nosso vocabulário. Na verdade, falamos muito dela desde 2013. É a já famosa Escrituração Fiscal Digital Social, ou apenas eSocial, que até o momento é a parte mais complexa do…

Activison and Hasbro have announced today that Transformers Rise Of The Dark Spark is coming to both the Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS this year. The game is also coming out on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC. You can watch the first trailer of the game, above.

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Pinterest mobile for iOS (s aapl) and Android (s goog) both received updates today — the most noteworthy of which is the ability to view GIFs on both iPhone and Android smartphones. According to the company’s engineering blog, the feature allows users to pin GIFs directly, which will show up in feeds with a small play button. GIFs can then be played via mobile, shared and repinned across platforms. The iPad version was also updated, including support for place pins.