SAP boosts startup fund by 2.6X to stimulate big data innovation

is more than doubling its commitment to the SAP HANA Real Time Fund, going from $155 million to $405 million, to support innovation surrounding real-time applications and big data.

Kaazing! ‘Living web’ startup pulls $15M from investor hats

Kaazing has raised $15 million to enable the "living web," which it describes as the "dynamic, interactive online world populated by applications that are always on, always connected, and always real time."

1 million users at 10 messages/second with 1 server rack = impressive

10 messages per second to 1,000,000 live users on single, solitary server?

The second life of the PixelJunk game developers: lunchtime rock

PixelJunk producer James Mielke and Q-Games founder Dylan Cuthbert explain the inspiration behind their band, The Electric Bends.

Digg relaunch preview: Betaworks may understand the site far better than Digg ever did

Betaworks is showing off a preview of its forthcoming Digg v.1 redesign today, which looks much cleaner and less convoluted that the current version.

Originally launched in 2004, Digg was the first of the big community news sharing social networks, …

Chartbeat moves past the pageview with redesign focused on engagement

As a struggling Chartbeat addict, I can tell you that watching the number of people flooding onto your site or story can be a rush. But like any great high, it fades too fast, especially when you can’t figure out …

Groupon and Foursquare team up for real-time daily deals action

Location-based check-in service Foursquare and local deals site Groupon are partnering up to offer real-time daily deals, Foursquare confirmed today. Several deals have already gone live in Chicago (like the one pictured above), and deals all over the U.S. and …

Real-time search: How a whole ecosystem bit the dust

Yet another real-time search engine has called it a day, causing many to ponder how a white-hot industry fizzled so entirely in just two years.

Last week, startup Wowd announced its team was “moving on.” Many read this announcement as …

MixPanel’s User Streams tracks individual users in real-time

Y Combinator startup MixPanel debuted a new, free analytics tool today called User Streams that allows web publishers to track individuals browsing their site in real-time and group similar users into clusters.

The User Streams tool will be free to …