India lifts download ban on VLC

India has lifted the download ban on VLC, more than nine months after it mysteriously blocked the official website of the popular media playback software in the South Asian market. VideoLAN, the popular software’s developer, filed a legal notice last month seeking an explanation from the nation’s IT and Telecom ministries for the block order. … Read more

Real-time data startup Quix raises a $12.9M Series A round led by MMC Ventures

The complexity of streaming data technologies – not just streaming video but any kind of streaming data – has created a headache around dealing with that high speed data processing. Accordingly, companies like Spark, Flink have spring up to address this ksqlDB. Many are either either java-based solutions or SQL-based analytics solutions. However, UK startup … Read more