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E-Trade Makes the Right Trade for iPad, Android Tablets of the Week
This week E*TRADE Mobile Pro for iPad tops our tablet business apps roundup, followed by four other iPad and Android apps. The application developed by E*Trade Securities, an online broker that provides investing and stock trading across a number of markets, and lets existing account holders trade from their mobile app. E*Trade Mobile Pro for iPad The ...
10gen Raises $20M in Funding, Releases MongoDB v2.0
10gen, the sponsor of the NoSQL MongoDB open source, document-oriented database, had two major announcements today. One is a hefty round of funding, and the second is the launch of the second version of its offering. The company raised $20 million in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from existing investors Flybridge ...
Permabit Unveils Albireo API: Dedupe Everywhere
Permabit, the company behind the industry-leading Albireo OEM embedded deduplication software, announced a new API today that will be made available to partners. The new API comes with a “Dedupe Everywhere” slogan, which is not too farfetched. Albireo can now be used in a much broader spectrum of deployments. “Originally built to address all block, ...
Cisco Bashes Juniper over Customer Service
Networking giant Cisco is still the biggest player in just about every segment of the networking market, but it’s facing a tough time as competitors are biting into its market share, and investors are expecting management to turn in results. This has put a lot of stress on the company, which is currently restructuring, now ...
Servers Follow PC Downturn, At Least for Manufacturers
Hewlett-Packard and Dell, two of the biggest server and PC companies –as well as two long-time rivals – have turned their attention away from their established sector, a low-margin market that is seeing steadily declining demand caused by users’ shift to mobile devices. HP is even thinking about selling off its $41 billion PC business, ...
Another HP Exec Joins DataDirect Networks
Erwan Menard of HP has joined DataDirect Networks as the company’s new chief operating officer, a position created specifically for him to fill. DataDirect is a big data storage company that has been growing in a very rapid pace, and beefing up its management team is a good way of supporting its current direction. “We ...
SAP’s Inherited Lawsuit with Oracle Reaches Settlement
The legal battle between Oracle and SAP has been raging on for three years now, and the most recent update adds one more point to the former’s side of the scoreboard. In 2008 Oracle sued TomorrowNow, a company that provided support for its software and became an SAP subsidiary when the latter acquired it in ...
Hewlett-Packard’s Latest Software Push: Security
Hewlett-Packard is attempting to get over its PC stage under new chief executive Leo Apotheker, in light of the declining market demand and the continuously growing, higher margin enterprise space. That’s the market HP has set its eyes on, and software is set to play just as a big of a role as hardware in ...
Primary Data Optimization: Wikibon Tackles Another Tough Topic
We’re all well aware that big data is driving innovation at the enterprise and startup levels, but beyond recognizing big data needs and its industry impact, we must now determine how to best implement it. To this end, Wikibon announced late last week that co-founder and theCube co-anchor David Vellante will serve as the moderator ...
Patent Reform Impacts IT: More Trolling, or Innovation?
A decade-old bill that is referred to as an almost complete overhaul of the current U.S patent system is expected to receive final congressional passage this month, the WSJ reports, and there are mixed reviews. Here’s the extract: The bill, which passed a key Senate vote Tuesday and is expected to get President Barack Obama’s ...