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Location Creates its Own Hot Market in Mobile, More Acquisitions
Location-based search engine Local.com has acquired Krillion for $3.5 million to strengthen its position in the market. Krillion too operates a location-based search engine, which aggregates data about products from local stores and put them in a searchable database. It’s the latest in a string of location-based buys and investments, reiterating the sector’s increasing influence ...
The Cloud Executive Shuffle: Nirvanix, Twitter and AppSense
The tech space has seen a lot of hires and fires lately, and three big names in cloud, virtualization and social media just joined the club. The first one is Nirvanix, an enterprise cloud storage company which just hired a new VP. Karen Sigman joines the firm from QLogic and has served at Hitachi Data ...
RIM’s Shopping Spree Flags Mobile Security Efforts
RIM announced today its latest acquisition – a smartphone security software developer company called Ubitexx. Unitexx raised over $4 million in funding, and its flagship offering is its mobile security software, ubi-Suite, which is what RIM is really interested in. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but the Canadian phonemaker ubi-Suite will be used ...
Twitter’s Champion Weekend: Royal Wedding, bin Laden’s Death, 200 M Users
Twitter has just reached an extremely significant milestone in the past week, and it’s been exemplified with the roaring buzz over Osama bin Laden’s death, confirmed in a statement from President Barack Obama late last night. A representative of the social network announced that the number of accounts registered with the micro-blogging service has now ...
Lawsuit Lunch: Google, Twitter Join Apple in Court
Earlier this week, Apple got sued by two of its customers, Vikram Ajjampur and William Devito, for allegedly tracking the location of their devices without their content. Now, Google’s Android and Twitter have joined that club with two fresh lawsuits filed over alleged privacy. iOS competitor Android is facing a very similar lawsuit to the ...
This Week in the Cloud: Workspace Computing in the Spotlight
The past week has seen a lot of updates from a lot of companies spread across every corner of the cloud, but one segment in particular took the spotlight with a number of significant developments – the workspace cloud. Collaboration is taking on a bigger and bigger role in organizations everywhere, and is one of ...
Tablet Business Apps for Android, iPad: This Week’s Best
Tablets seem to be invading workplaces everywhere, biting out bigger and bigger chunks of the netbook and PC markets. The office and virtual office is no exception, and app developers are making serious strides to monetize this trend. In consequence, users can choose among a huge pool of such apps, and we’ve rounded up this ...
SAP Revenues Soar, Yet Profit Disappoints Investors
Stock prices for German business software maker SAP fell by over 6 percent yesterday, following the company’s earnings call that morning. That equals a $4.34 slide to $63.97 on the New York Stock Exchange, and is attributed to investor concerns regarding Q1, 2011 net profit that was far below analysts’ expectations. SAP reported net profit ...
Tech Patent Wars Continue: Oracle Beats Google in Court
It seems that business rivalry in the tech industry usually comes alongside multiple patent infringement claims exchanged between competing companies. Two of these are Oracle and Google. The former sued the internet company last year, claiming Android has infringed seven of Oracle’s Java patents, the language it has acquired as part of its 2010 Sun ...
HP Lands Another $2.5 Billion Contract with NASA
In light of the electronics’ giant graduate move into the cloud and software markets, Hewlett-Packard has landed yet another high-profile contract with NASA. Late last year, we’ve learned that HP has entered into a $2.5 billion, 10 year agreement with NASA to manage the bulk of the space agency’s IT infrastructure. This deal includes among ...
