Dell Cautious about Icahn’s Bid Amidst Push to Reform Declining Sales

Maria Deutscher | May 20th

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...»

Google I/O 2013: OAuth API Design and Security for Authentication in Application Development

Kyt Dotson | May 20th

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...»

Google’s Taxable Troubles & Big Media’s DMCA Abuse – SiliconANGLE News Roundup

Kristin Feledy | May 20th

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...»

For Data Artists, Not Stats Nerds : Alteryx Bags $12M for Simplified Analytics

Maria Deutscher | May 20th

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...»

Google Compute Engine’s SLAs Will Determine Its Maturity in the Public Cloud

Ryan Cox | May 20th

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...»

LenovoEMC Storage Solutions Unleashes North American Channel Partners

Ryan Cox | May 20th

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....»

Big Data Hype vs. Solutions : Why the Gap? How to Fix It?

Kristen Nicole | May 20th

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...»

China’s State-Sponsored Hackers Resume Attacks On US

Mike Wheatley | May 20th

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...»

Tech as a Commodity – Clients Want Services, says KPN CIO

Kathryn Buford | May 20th

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...»

Accountability + Efficiency in Knowledge Base Management : Yale on SaaS

Valentina Craft | May 20th

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...»