Steve Rosenbaum talks about Human, Accidental and Social Curation at SXSWi 2011

socialnerdia | April 12th

As you might have noticed by now, curation is one of those topics that I get excited about. That’s why I was very glad to meet and chat with Steve Rosenbaum, CEO...»

Gravity Meets Bubble? – Twitter Soars In Private Equity Valuation

Tom Foremski | April 12th

Twitter is often grouped with other high flying private venture companies: Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon. The common trait among these four is high valuations. But Twitter is the odd-man out here because it appears that its...»

Nokia Users Make Ovi Look Good: 5M Daily Downloads

Kristina Farrah | April 12th

With 200 million users and 40,000 apps in its Ovi Store, the Finland-based mobile giant Nokia has reached another milestone of 5 million downloads per day, a figure eight times larger compared to last year....»

Cloudera’s New Spin on Hadoop, Open Cloud

Maria Deutscher | April 12th

A few hours ago Cloudera announced the general availability of the Cloudera Distribution Including Apache Hadoop v3 (CDH3), which carries a very large number of new benefits. Cloudera has drastically set of

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EMC: ‘Big Data’ More Than Just Data Analytics

Jeff Kelly | April 12th

The ability to analyze large volumes of unstructured data, it turns out, is just one of the benefits of the big data era. The ability to actually use unstructured data – including audio and video content...»

The Latest in Online Video: Personal Cloud, and Lots of Ads

Maria Deutscher | April 12th

A noteworthy online video update  crosses the wire by the day, but today was an exception – three major companies, including Vudu, HTC and TubeMogul – had some very big news.

Starting with Vudu,

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Nexage Brings Real-Time Bidding to Mobile Apps, Web

Kristen Nicole | April 12th

Mobile ad platform Nexage is partying hard this week, with the launch of its RTB Exchange.  It’s a real-time bidding platform that extends mobile web and application inventory available, marking a new era in ad
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Cisco’s Refocus Costs Flip, 550 Employees and $300M

Kristina Farrah | April 12th

Following the memo released to its employers last week, Cisco is starting to take action with regard to its apparent lack of role-definition in the tech world. It will dispossess some of its consumer...»

Fusion-io, JMR & StoneFly Have Their Heads in the Cloud

Madalena David | April 12th

On the occasion of the National Association of Broadcasters Show that started this week, JMR will launch, and offer a live demonstration of the latest produce from their collaboration with Fusion-io, a high performance...»

GigaSpaces Joins OpenStack, Reveals Upcoming Product

Maria Deutscher | April 12th

Virtualized application platforms maker GigaSpaces is the latest to join the OpenStack community. In partnership with Citrix, a founding member of the open cloud OS, the young company also took the opportunity to announce

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