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Google and Yahoo broke large databases and distributed them across multiple servers, that led to distributed databases—which then founded advanced databases like NoSQL and new processing platforms like Hadoop.

The volume and velocity of business data has changed dramatically in the last couple of years—it’s skyrocketing every day.

Major contributors to the operating expenditure are marketing costs and research and development (R&D) expenses that leads to value added products and services development.

The “Internet of Things” is the network of physical objects, that connects them to the internet.

R&D costs typically form 10%–20% of the revenues for software companies.

Box was created due to changes in the way users store and collaborate on files.

There’s no shortage of companies offering services similar to what Box offers.

Software and hardware are integrally linked, which makes it confusing to distinguish one from the other.

“Software” refers to computer program or data (bits and bytes stored), that can be stored electronically.

Corporate debt is divided into investment-grade and high-yield on the basis of the credit risk associated with the issuer. Credit rating agencies issue ratings to corporations and debt issuance on the basis of associated credit risk.

Apple came out with its fiscal Q2 2014 earnings on Wednesday. The company mentioned in the call that it managed to sell 4.1 million Macs, which was a growth of 5% over the same quarter last year.

The popular Internet radio service Pandora, which revolutionized the way people listen to music, posted its highest quarterly earnings in the calendar fourth quarter 2013, since its IPO in 2011.