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The Rise of the Groupon Wannabes
After Groupon declined Google’s $6 billion bid, the search giant, who’s evidently very eager to tap into the online coupon world, is on the hunt to acquire an alternative, as the New York Times reported. “Although LivingSocial, which also generates significant cash, may be an attractive alternative for Google, a takeover deal would not come ...
HP’s webOS PalmPad Tablet Expected to Debut at CES
According to eMarketer, certain spec sheets were obtained from an unnamed source by Fox News, which detail that Hewlett-Packard is planning to launch a tablet running on a new version of Palm’s WebOS mobile operating system. Three models of this tablet, the PalmPad, running on a webOS version (2.5.1) are expected to be showcased at ...
VMware Reveals Vblock data, 2011 Plans for Hypervisor
VMware executives have revealed some crucial information on both Vblock’s roll in the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition and their plans for Hypervisor in 2010, which centers on security. The first one to be highlighted is the information disclosed by Acadia [VCE] CEO Michael Capellas concerning Vblock’s role in the data center. “Capellas has told ...
A Comparative Look at Twitter: Getting Social 2009-2010
This collection of infographics, themed around massive micro-blogging social network Twitter, provides a fairly extensive view on user activity statistics from 2009 to 2010. These enable an insight to the adoption of the social-network among Twitter users. The first segment of the infographic shows that while 31% of Twitter users had a bio back in ...
IBM Predictions: the Yearly ‘Next Five in Five’
IBM recently released its annual “Next Five in Five” predictions on 5 notable tech innovations it expects to take place within the next 5 years. The predictions are a great opportunity for IBM to gain some extra publicity, but putting PR aside, it also provides insight to the strengthening of existing and future technologies. “The ...
Nasuni Raises $15M in Funding, Growing the Public Cloud
Today cloud storage start-up Nasuni announced it has secured $15 million in Series B funding, raising its total funding $23 million for the two rounds. This round was led by early-stage venture capital firm Flybridge Capital Partners, with participation from North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. “The company has raised $23 million over two ...
Akamai Protecting Retail Cloud against Holiday Season Hacks
Cloud web content and media optimizer Akamai today released a holiday-driven spin in which it detailed its system, and how some of its high-profile retail clients have sustained some ‘holiday-spirited’ cyber attacks. “Based on industry estimates (2), 2010 holiday sales will represent nearly 24% of an average retailer’s total online sales. Combining this figure with ...
RIM Q3 Sales Report: 40% Growth and Goals for a Global Future
According to Research In Motion’s Q3 Sales Report released yesterday, the company has sold 40% more handsets than in last year’s Q3, as this figure equals 14.2 million BB devices shipped this quarter. RIM’s total revenue was an impressive $5.5 billion. “A breakdown of the sales figures, however, reiterates that RIM is losing ground in ...
Dropbox: Version 1.0 Enhancing the Personal Cloud
Today cloud file management solutions provider Dropbox announced in its blog the launch of Dropbox 1.0. Version 1.0 carries some serious improvements including a 20% reduced download sized for Mac users, extended attribute sync including resource forks as well as thorough bug fixes and more: “We completely re-architected the client-side sync engine to optimize the ...
Sibblingz for Bing as Users Search for Play Time
After Microsoft struck a deal with Sibblingz’s sister company CrowdStar recently, the cross-platform app launching framework provider announced it can put social games inside the Bing search engine. This is a very innovative approach to incorporate social gaming, but it’s only the latest of Bing’s efforts to win over Google users by improving portal appeal ...