Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southwest Asset Management have joined forces to buy Dell in a move that put Silver Lake Partners and founder Michael Dell in the backseat. Silver Lake and Dell are offering $24.4...»

Developers who work with accessing APIs are probably already largely familiar with the paradigm that OAuth works under: it’s an identity and authentication API. In his session, Adam Eijdenberg describes how to connect your applications with Google’s services...»

In today's News Roundup, Google's questioned over taxes in Ireland, Pinterest gets a brand-friendly update, Rapidshare suffers massive layoffs, augmented reality sees the perks of Valve co-founder's intellectual property, smart apps take over Mercedes Benz, the impending Xbox launch...»

Alteryx, an Irvine-based firm whose stated goal is to “humanize” Big Data, just raised $12 million in financing from SAP Ventures and Toba Capital, a recently established VC led by Quest Software founder Vinny Smith. This latest...»

Let's size up Google Compute Engine, Amazon AWS and the rest of the Cloud field. While the "who" is important, the "where" they'll be competing in is equally important. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) will be...»

Snowed in by the Tumblr news, Lenovo announced today that its LenovoEMC portfolio of Network Attached Storage (NAS) products are now available through Lenovo channel partners and direct from Lenovo in North America....»

Editor's Note: the following is an excerpt from an interview conducted with Kapow CPO Karl Ederle regarding a recent IDG study commissioned by Kapow Software to better understand the current state of Big Data and whether or not...»

After lying low for a period of almost three months, China's state-sponsored hackers are at it again, attacking the computer servers of US businesses in a concerted effort to steal classified information. Things are slightly...»

Petra Zijlstra, Chief Information Officer of KPN and Maarten le Noble, Manager of ServiceNow for KPN, spoke with Dave Vellante in theCube to discuss their implementation and experience of ServiceNow. KPN focuses mainly on fixed and wireless communications...»

TheCube host Dave Vellante was joined by guests Dorothy Ortale, Knowledge manager, Ricardo Chavira, IT Director, and Rick Smith, Director of Metrics & Quality Assurance with Yale University, to talk about the way practitioners are...»