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Facebook Games Helped Create 182K New Jobs
Facebook provides a social platform for a sizable chunk of the Earth’s total population, and the company has a naturally big impact on the economy. A fresh report released today by the University of Maryland Business School reveals some new insight into the social networking giant’s gaming ecosystem, which apparently helped create directly and directly ...
IBM, AT&T Face Antitrust Investigations
IBM and AT&T, two of the biggest tech firms across several industries, are both facing serious antitrust allegations. And Big Blue is taking the heat in the European market. The EU launched an investigation into how IBM operates in the $4.1 billion European mainframe market, and specifically whether or not it used it to intentionally ...
Hitachi Grows HP Storage Ecosystem with Latest Launch
Japanese hardware maker Hitachi announced that 3PAR F-Class, T-Class and P10000 V-Class systems will ship with its 3.5-inch Fibre Channel Ultrastar SLC-based solid state drives in them. The Ultrastar SSD400S SSD line-up is specially designed for OEMs, and Hewlett-Packard, which acquired 3PAR over a year ago, is a major addition to its growing partner ecosystem. “We are gratified ...
Opera Bets on Browser-App Store Combo
Browser maker Opera Software, not to be confused with big data firm Opera Solutions that raised $84 million last week, is venturing deeper into mobile. It’s been doing that by not only offering mobile versions of its web browser (as well as mobile ad services now that it has acquired AdMarvel), but also by recently ...
HP In Hot Water for Iffy webOS Plans, Sued by Investors
Hewlett-Packard is facing some serious accusations for allegedly misleading its investors about the performance of its webOS mobile operating system, Reuters reported. During its latest earnings call, HP announced plans to spin off its $41 billion Personal Systems Group and stop shipping webOS devices as a part of an effort to boost its low margins. ...
Cisco Quad Tops List for iPad, Android Business Apps
This week too we’re bringing you five iPad and Android Honeycomb apps developed for business users, and Cisco Quad 2.1 for iPad By Cisco is the first app on the list. The collaboration app represents a part of the networking giant’s strategy to expand beyond its core switching and routing business to mobile and cloud ...
This Week in the Cloud: from Gluster to WeVideo
There have been a few interesting cloud developments this week, and we’ve rounded up the most notable ones here. The first highlight is an update from Gluster. The open-source storage software maker teamed up with NAS network storage server maker Savage IO to integrate the two companies’ offerings. Savagis will incorporate GlusterFS into its machines. The ...
QLogic Thinking Flash for the Future
Storage networking solutions provider QLogic may be venturing into a whole area, according to Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers. He had a chat with Logic CEO Simon Biddiscombe, who suggested that his company is interested in putting its existing experience with infastracture into building PCIe flash cards. Biddiscombe also noted a particular interest in Fusion-io, ...
Cisco’s Restructure Plan: Invest in Partner Ecosystem
Networking giant Cisco took a hit in recent years as an overly complicated internal decision-making system took over, and slowed down the company to a grinding halt from a market standpoint. After several very slow quarters the company is now restructuring, and it’s doing that in more ways than just cutting costs and making layoffs. ...
Dell Invests Further in Force10, Still Teams with Brocade
Dell, just like its long-time competitor Hewlett-Packard, is ticking its game up a notch in the enterprise space as its consumer business starts to show signs of decline. Networking is one of the areas the hardware giant has ventured into, notably with the acquisition of Force10 back in August. Now Dell is looking to integrate ...