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What to Expect from Apple at WWDC 2012
Apple launched the landing page for WWDC this week – its annual developer conference that features workshops, various sessions and most importantly a keynote that is generally perceived as the main highlight of the event. This year Tim Cook will be filling Steve Jobs’ shoes for the first time, and will follow traditional by discussing ...
Facebook’s Latest Acquisition Could be Face.com
Word has it that Facebook has caught the scent of yet another high-value acquisition target. It is rumored that the social network plans to acquire facial recognition startup Face.com for a sum ranging between 80 and 100 million dollars. If these early speculations have some merit to them then Face is a relative bargain at ...
ProInsights Tops this Week’s Tablet Business Apps
This week Mint updated their app with new features from the site, and a LinkedIn visualization tool for Android called ProInsights made it to a top spot on the list. iPad Mint The company behind the popular personal finance service rolled out an upgrade to the iPad client that added a couple of features from ...
Could a Smartphone be the Way Up for Facebook?
A week and a half ago Facebook went public after many months of speculation, and managed to pass the $100 billion mark with its valuation. But reality soon caught up to the hype, and the share’s opening price of $38 very rapidly declined to the $32 it’s trading for today. The $100 billion question is ...
This Week in Big Data: EMC World, Data Streams and the Future Web in Zetabytes
This week EMC World 2012 grabbed a big portion of the headlines in big data, spilling into an unsurprisingly large number of segments that includes analytics. The whole armada of the storage giant’s partners and resellers attended EMC World this year, including Talend. The BI software maker announced that its flagship platform has been integrated ...
This Week in Cloud: EMC World, M&A and APIs
This week featured EMC World 2012, the storage giant’s annual conference that, as promised, managed to outdo last year with nothing short of 42 new product announcements, as well as other updates. Here’s a couple highlights: On Wednesday, EMC and open source automation firm Puppet Labs unveiled the result of their latest collaboration. Razor is ...
SuccessFactors Transitioning to HANA by Q3
SAP’s HANA in-memory big data appliance has come a long way in the past twelve months, and HR subsidiary SuccessFactors evidently had enough confidence in the platform to migrate its Workforce Analytics and Workforce Planning solutions. “The benefits are immediate and real for HR executives and business leaders,” said Dmitri Krakovsky, vice president of global ...
Microsoft, Google Cozy Up to iOS
Apple’s dominion over the mobile market been undermined as Android, and later Windows Phone 7, started to gain popularity and set out on the growth path they’re following today. All this competition resulted in a great deal of innovation, and piggybacking on a competing OS’s popularity is one novelty that never gets old. Throughout 2011 ...
Fusion-io All About Flash Gaming, Drecom is Latest Client
Flash storage giant Fusion-io has been tapping the gaming industry lately, releasing case study after case study covering various companies’ use of its ioDrive solutions. The newest is Drecom, a Japanese web portal that maintains social games in addition to mobile sites and other things such as RSS readers. The firm “Fusion-io’d” its database environment. ...
VMware Extends Desktop Virtualization Portfolio with Wanova
VMware signed an agreement to acquire an Israeli firm called Wanova, with the goal of enabling virtual desktop management on offline end point devices. This is according to a blog post from earlier this week by Scott Davis, the CTO of the virtualization giant’s VDI group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in the ...