Top cloud-based solutions for marketers and PR professionals, mBlast, has vowed to change the sphere of marketing as it launches the new tool—mPACT. This roll out is expected to provide an  innovative web-based advertising tool that automatically determines the Influencers the client needs to target, based on several factors: authority, currency, relevance and other key ...

Leading social media analytics expert Klout has raised an estimated $8.5 million in additional funds. Klout has seamlessly secured funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer (KPCB) sFund and participation from Greycroft Partners. A thrilled Joe Fernandez, CEO and co-founder of Klout, relates how they will utilize the investments. He said, “It’s been amazing seeing ...

Just in time for the celebration of the New Year, McAfee unmasked the threats that will potentially attack shortened URL services and Internet TV platforms. The 2011 Threat Predictions was a product of extensive research that McAfee conducted to come up with a potent list and educate the public. Google’s Android, Apple’s iPhone, Foursquare, Google TV ...

The online retail e-Commerce industry just had the merriest Christmas ever, and probably the best holiday season, as holiday spending reaches a record smashing $30.1 billion. The report was conducted and made public by comScore, a leading enterprise responsible for measuring digital world. The most recent week has seen  $2.4 billion in spending, which is ...

Seattle-based Skytap has ends the year on a high note as they raised additional $10 million in funding. With this financial boost, the provider of cloud automation solutions has now garnered a total of $23 million from financing. Founded in 2006, Skytap is a cloud computing provider that offers virtual lab automation as their cloud ...

Whether it is an Apple iPhone or RIM’s Blackberry, 2010 is undoubtedly the year of the smartphone. As it received undulating attention from both users and critics alike, the smartphone has become a very significant battleground in the mobile industry. With various innovations and release of updated versions, these devices have sought unparalleled growth and ...

Keeping up with OpenStack has become quite difficult lately with so much development activities going on, including the OpenStack Bexar release. Within the span of 3 months, this Bexar development cycle has targeted 42 specs and 150 active branches. February 3 will be the big day and there is variety of features that should be ...

IBM has just unveiled its recent discovery that is said to be the biggest leap of any companies:  “racetrack memory.”  This breakthrough technology has the potential to exponentially increase the computing performance and can facilitate storage of information that is 100 times bigger than any of the existing ones. In the near future, IBM is ...

Following the rejection of what could be Google’s biggest acquisition in history, Groupon has raised up to $500 million of the $950 million target funding round by selling an equity stake. Of the total, $345 million will be used to buy back shares of its investors. Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch laid out the details on ...

Leading cloud-based smartphone security, Lookout unleashes the new facade of a more refined and sophisticated class of Trojan virus that is targeting Androids.  Now called “Geinimi”, this Trojan can severely affect and compromise your personal information and distribute these onto remote servers. Experts say that this one is the first Android malware to exhibit botnet-like ...