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This Week in the Cloud: from Salesforce’s Big Buy to Xbox Video Streaming
This week’s major highlights spanned across quite a few areas, ranging from the M&A scene to the personal cloud and the latest move in Xbox’s campaign to take over the living room. Yesterday we learned that enterprise SaaS giant Salesforce.com agreed to dole out $800 million for Buddy Media, a social marketing firm that cater ...
Facebook Highlight an Attempt to Boost Monetization
Facebook dominated the headlines with its $16 billion IPO and $104 billion valuation. But the company’s shares quickly declined from the $38 initial asking price to just over $28 today; now the social media kingpin is facing more pressure than ever to convince the market it can bring enough money home. Facebook has a lot ...
SAP Looking to Capitalize on Facebook’s Mistakes
SAP vice president of cloud computing Dinesh Sharma has plans in store for Facebook, he said in a recent interview in which he elaborated on his company’s social strategy. This was one of the key elements behind the $4.3 billion acquisition of Ariba, and in the future it might serve the same central role in ...
Productivity Booster! Free Tools for IT [Infographic]
A recent infographic posted on WhatsUpGold is something most of the companies we cover don’t want you to know – you can get some of the stuff for free. This applies to productivity tools for IT professionals among other things, and the graph covers five of the more popular freely downloadable utilities out there. Number ...
Salesforce Hops on Latest Cloud Marketing Trend with Buddy Media Buy
According to sources, cloud CRM provider Salesforce.com has entered into an agreement to acquire social media services provider Buddy Media for $800 million. The company helps enterprise clients optimize their online presence on Facebook with the promise of achieving improvements in merchandising, support and other areas that tie with consumer interactions. The social networking firm ...
Panorama9 and Zendesk Couple IT with Support
Cloud IT firm Panorama9 is joining forces with customer support SaaS provider Zendesk to capitalize on an opportunity that the two have identified: that small to medium enterprises could use integration between these two sectors. Infrastructure-related problems often account for a sizable chunk of complaints, and the two companies are making the most of it ...
Dell’s New Copper ARM Server is Meant for Hyperscale
Google and Facebook are two of the largest web companies out there, and as such they discovered that they can be much more efficient with the way they manage their data centers. A very large portion of Facebook’s IT infrastructure, for instance, is accounted by minimalistic servers stripped of the ‘added value’ components, which results ...
Sprint Closing Nextel to Optimize its LTE Goals
Sprint put a date on the shutdown of its Nextel network, a merger that has been struggling financially for a very long time. The carrier said that it could go offline as early as June 2013. “Sprint will send written notices to business and government customers beginning June 1, 2012, regarding the iDEN Nextel National ...
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 ...