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Egypt Internet Shutdown: Official Figures
Shortly after anti-government protests began in Cairo, Egypt had experienced an unprecedented Internet service cutoff. Only suggestions have been raised regarding the reason behind this still ongoing situation, as well as its implications in context to a potential U.S “Internet kill switch.” Seeing as this is SiliconANGLE, we’re looking at the story from the cloud ...
Google Launches Algorithm to Discourage Scrapers
Google employee Matt Cutts announced in his earlier this week the search giant is considering a new, on-page spam detection technique to reduce spam content – meaning copied or scraped – from appearing in Google Search results. Today however, Cutts released an update in his blog and confirmed the news that this algorithm was already ...
zferral Acquires Cloudomatic, Partners with Chargify
Referral monetization and distribution cloud company zferral announced in a blog post it has acquired Cloudomatic, including its partnership software application dubbed ‘Cloudomatic(flow)’. The acquisition also merges the two companies’ customer base, increasing zferral existing one of several thousands by a few hundreds more. “We are excited to announce we acquired simple partnership software Cloudomatic(flow) ...
Facebook Finally Updates Android with Deals for Places
Facebook released Facebook for Android 1.5.1, and along with a few bug fixes, the updated app introduces U.S users local deal support, including free offers, savings, and special deals. This feature is reportedly only available in the U.S for now, and requires users to check in to Facebook Places. “To see if you have any ...
Mobile Games Round Up: Zynga Expands, Kongregate Arcade Returns
It’s been a big week for mobile, especially in the gaming arena. Mobile games are some of the top-grossing, most popular apps on the market, and their influence is growing stronger by the day. Here’s a brief look at what’s been going on in the mobile industry lately, spanning new games, new platforms and new ...
Windows Phone 7 on the Rise, so are Microsoft Earnings
Microsoft recently revealed some important numbers regarding its mobile operating system, cluing us in to its progress since launching late last year. The company sold more than 2 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q4 2010, which may be an indicator of steady recuperating in its mobile market share. Microsoft’s mobile share dropped from 7.9% ...
LinkedIn May Head for an IPO Sooner than You Think
LA Times reports that professional networking site LinkedIn may file for an IPO with the SEC as early as today or this week. LinkedIn hired Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase to lead the public offering, while the network implied a $2.5 billion value on private trading exchange SharesPost. “LinkedIn Chief Executive Jeff ...
Rackspace Gets Smart with CloudU Education Program
Today Rackspace announced CloudU, a new Education Program and Webinar series starting today. The first webinar, “Revolution Not Evolution: How Cloud Computing Differs from Traditional IT and Why it Matters”, will be held today at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT. Panelists include John Engates, Rackspace CTO; Ben Kepes from Diversity Limited and InformationWeek editor-at-large Charles ...
Lockerz Acquires Plixi, Joins the Photo Sharing Club
Social commerce site Lockerz announced it has acquired mobile and web photo sharing service Plixi for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition integrates the 1 billion monthly photos-worth Plixi with Lockerz Photos, and members of the social site will be able to utilize the service via Lockerz’ “friends-fwbs;)”. “Lockerz Photos plans to continue providing the same ...
VMware Sees Growing Healthcare Adoption of the Cloud
VMware’s out to tackle every market in the cloud, and one tough battle ground right now is the healthcare industry. With sensitive data, time-managed accounts and empathetic security concerns, this industry has been a big one to crack, with many cloud services seeking effective means of addressing the widening sea of client needs. Making its ...