Arguably, EMC is one of the few tech companies who embraced 2010 with quite a number of feats including the celebrated $2.25 billion acquisition of Isilon, topping the charts in external storage systems, booming revenues and swiftly penetrating the mobile security industry. It is no secret how EMC has relentlessly pushed for greater things to ...

Social bookmarking service Delicious isn’t disappearaing all together, but its users have voiced their concerns over he past week, wondering what will become of their saved content and the site that helped jump start the movement towards curated and recommended content based on individual user activity.  While panic was in the air over Delicious’ fate, ...

The second annual LivingSocial’s 12Days of Giving will be more fun and charitable this year, as the company vows to donate at least 1% of every Daily Deal purchased to DonorsChoose.org and GlobalGiving. This event started last December 13th and will last until December 24th—so shopaholics from all corners of the world can enjoy what ...

Search giant Google and runner-up Bing are continuously improving on integrating their maps into mobile apps and making it more localized. They’re reaching a point of high integration, and being localized for search and advertising purposes. Google has recently and proudly released what they call the next generation of mobile maps. To be specific, they ...

New player Dwolla is knocking on PayPal’s door,  striking the world’s leading online payment company where it is weakest—transaction fees. Dwolla will only charge 25 cents per transaction, whereas PayPal deducts a certain percentage on credit card payments and bank transfers depending on the amount involved. The main principle behind Dwolla is to promote swift ...

Oracle’s unrelenting pursuit to provide innovations to MySQL users has spurred another enhancement, this time targeting scalability and new performance via MySQL 5.5. This new version of open source database was released today targets Windows market and hopefully replace Microsoft SQL Server. Following the big announcement, Edward Screven, Oracle’s Chief Corporate Architect relates the goal ...

The North American publishing segment of Nexon Corp., Nexon America, has decided to partner with Playspan and tap its platform to power payments of Nexon Cash (NX) virtual currency. Playspan is the leading provider of monetization solutions for online games, virtual worlds, social networks, and video games. This deal is expected to spread out payment ...

AOL has recently announced its latest acquisition, Pictela Inc. The latter is an award-winning global technology platform for serving and dispensing high- definition brand content across online marketing and social media. You might be asking what is this purchase by AOL for? Well, the company is still going after their long-term revenue generation, monetizing their ...

It may be quite too early to tell that this will be Bing’s New Year’s resolution, but looks like the organization is introducing great features and updates before it greets 2011. The latest release of Bing promises to be more social, local, easy-to-use, helpful and mobile. The focus of the company now is to reimagine ...

One of the fastest growing men’s online retail shopping website, Bonobos has augmented their funds via financial aid from Lightspeed Venture and Accel Partners. To represent both investing companies, Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed and Sameer Gandhi of Accel will both be joining the Bonobos board. It was reported that the aid reaches $18.5 million. Funding ...