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The High Price of IPO Talk: Twitter Takes On the Bubble
Some rumors and reports that surfaced lately suggest Twitter is heading for a public offering in the near future, but Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told Reuters the company doesn’t plan to go public anytime soon. “We have so many other things before we even think about that,” Biz Stone told Reuters at a business forum ...
Microsoft and Employees Beware, the Lawyers are Coming to Get You
Facebook has a history of snatching its competitors’ employees, but while Google paid an engineer $6 million so that she won’t defect to the social network, Microsoft has taken its efforts to an entirely different level – court. All Things D reports that after Facebook hired ex-Microsoft global ad sales head Carolyn Everson, Microsoft is ...
What the iPad 2 Means for Gaming, and the Specs You Need to Know
The iPad 2 was introduced by Apple yesterday, and we’ve all gotten a little taste of the next gen tablet. The iPad 2 was dubbed a game changer by some and a firm strategy by others, but as it turns outs, it’s also a pretty good game machine. Some of the most buzzed-about apps loaded ...
Online Video Sees Tremendous Growth, Spurs some Major Updates
New data from research firm Nielsen reveals U.S users spent 45% more time watching online video compared to 2010, and streamed 28% more video. The number of unique video viewers only increased by 3.1% compared to Jan 2010, but a drastic spike in activity means something big has happened during the past year – the ...
iPad 2: The Apps!
The iPad 2 has arrived. The duel-core tablet has some very powerful specs geared to compete with the Motorola Xoom, but we’ve also learned a bit about the apps it will feature. Not much info is available, but what we do know is that the IOS 3.4-running iPad 2 will ship with new iTunes Home ...
Cisco Acquires Pari Networks, Developing Strategy at Enterprise Connect 2011
Cisco’s core switch business may be declining, but the company has been working hard to cover as many areas in its offerings portfolio as possible. These currently range from teleconferencing to blade servers, and the latest development to Cisco’s strategy was announced today – the acquisition of Pari Networks. Pari Networks is a provider of ...
Facebook Juggles Privacy, Regulators and Ads as its Platform Grows in Influence
As Facebook fleshes out its business model around a social market and the mobile space, the network faces scrutiny for how it manages private data, having to justify the updates it pushes through. This week’s already been particularly busy for Facebook. The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook has notified the Congress it will carry ...
Google Acquires Security Analytics Software Developer Zynamics
Google’s made a sly acquisition today, taking in analytics firm Zynamics. According to a brief blog post, the acquired security analytics software developer Zynamics is headed to one of the cloud’s most prominent data crunchers. Zynamics develops offensive and defensive security reverse engineering tools. The company’s offerings, which include BinDiff, BinNavi, VxClass, BinCrowd and PDF ...
Privacy: AT&T and Facebook, All Over Again
Today we’ve seen a couple of new – and major – privacy related updates. The first one comes from WSJ, who reports the Supreme Court refused to extend personal-privacy rights to corporations in case 09-1279, Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T. Chief Justice John Roberts stated it’s nothing personal. “The case concerned AT&T’s effort to block public disclosure ...
GigaSpaces Partners up with Excelian, heads to Finance and Gaming
Virtualized application platforms maker GigaSpaces announced a partnership with London-based Excelian, a technology consulting company with 250 staffers. The partnership is meant to extend GigaSpaces’ reach to finance services and gaming companies. “We chose to work with GigaSpaces because it is battle proven in the industries in which we work,” says Adam Vile, PhD, Senior ...