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Yelp Tops This Week’s Tablet Business Apps Roundup
Location-based social search provider Yelp rolled out new versions of its iOS apps as well as the web-version, introducing new features to both iPhone and iPad users. The update puts a lot of emphasis on usability, with the goal of rounding out the service across all platforms. iPad Yelp Yelp lets you search businesses near ...
This Week in Big Data: Cloudera, Google Steal the Show
This week Cloudera and Google’s new cloud platform were the biggest attractions, not just for the blogosphere but also several vendors that decided to align themselves with one or the other to promote their big data plans. Hewlett-Packard said on Thursday that it signed an OEM agreement with Cloudera that will enable it to resell ...
33Across Launches Real-Time Personas
33Across collects social data, lots of it, and sells it to publishers. It operates a ‘social graph’ that tracks the activities of 1.25 billion internet users worldwide, and the sheer size of this data hoard is the main thing that earned the company a client portfolio of 375 Fortune 1000 marketers to the offering. This week the ...
This Week in the Cloud: Files, Alliances and $10M in Funding
A number of cloud updates cross the wired this week, and the ones coming from the direction of Google were among those that stood out the most. The search giant launched a partner program for vendors that want to get in on the Google Cloud Platform. That’s the name of several combined services including Cloud ...
Box Plays Nice with Microsoft, Comes to Windows Phone 7
Popular cloud storage service Box has not had many nice things to say about Microsoft or its popular Sharepoint platform. However, it seems Box likes the company enough to add support for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. The competition in the cloud storage space is enormous. If Box wants to come out on top, the company has to ...
Oracle Finally Adds the Elastic to Exalogic
This week Oracle announced the second generation of its cloud in a box, Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0. The newest release of the platform introduces several improvements, most notably, more virtualization capabilities. Oracle’s improvements in version two may make the platform to finally live up to the elastic in its name. Exalogic includes a combination ...
AppFog’s PaaS Bills You for Ram, Not Space
AppFog is taking a shot at the biggest cloud vendors with its new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) pricing model that charges users based on the RAM they need instead of capacity. The company has also announced a new platform for Web, enterprise and mobile developers. The solution gives users with free accounts 2 GB of RAM. Paid plans ...
SoftLayer Making a Name for itself in the Cloud
SoftLayer is an emerging player in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) space. The company may not be as large or well-known as providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft’s Azure, SoftLayer claims it does a few things better than the big boys. The company has released a few case studies that detail why its platform is ...
Big Data Skill Gap Could Create Offshore Opportunities
Statically foreign workers might prove to be one answer to the big data skill gap that is growing increasingly noticeable in the U.S today. The McKinsey Global Institute said that there’s a shortage of 200,000 data scientists in the current job market. That’s a lot of PhDs, and companies will need at least another 1.5 ...
Services Fuel EMC’s Q2 2012 Earnings
EMC services fueled EMC’s income in the second quarter of 2012. Virtualization, cloud computing and Big Data are the key trends that EMC cites for continued growth in its storage product revenue. While the company’s products appear to be gaining modest share in the market, the real story of EMC’s continued success is its Global Services ...