EU to Take Focused Aim at Facebook’s Brand of Privacy
The big data fuss seem to have trickled down to social media in a rather peculiar fashion. Social media networks, Facebook in particular, have faced a fair share of public scrutiny in the past…
Viadeo’s Latest Buy Intensifies Battle with LinkedIn
Viadeo, the professional social network that competes against LinkedIn with about 40 million users, announced it has acquired Dutch startup Soocial for an amount equal to ‘multiple hundreds of thousands of euros,’ according to…
VMware On the “Right Side” of Virtualization
Paul Maritz, the head of EMC virtualization subsidiary VMware, is sticking behind the plan he’s been following, and realizing quite successfully, since leaving Microsoft to join the company. He’s naturally been among the most…
ARM Widens Appeal to Android Developers with New Toolkit
Chipmaker ARM, which provides a good portion of the chips that power smartphones today, is now offering free software to Android developers seeking to optimize their code for ARM processors. ARM Development Studio 5…
This Week’s Best iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps: Syncplicity Tops the List
Syncplicity’s recent launch on Android and Amazon’s highly-anticipated Kindle Fire tops this week’s roundup. The file sync and management app introduces the bulk of the features available on iOS to Google’s rivaling operating system,…
This Week in Cloud: PaaS Expansion on the Rise
As the title highlights, a few rather significant updates poured in this past week from the as-a-service, industry in addition to other areas. For starters, the Salesforce.com-owned Heroku introduced a new database-as-a-service for the…
SAP Plans Next Investments, Faces Another Lawsuit
SAP is very ambitious to reach its target revenue goal by 2015, which is why it has been expanding and making quite a lot of investments lately. The company is now increasing its presence…
VMware Reverses Open Mac Virtualization Policy
Users of Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard got all worked about the latest release of VMware’s Fusion desktop virtualization app, at least for a short time. Version 4.1 provided what seemed to…
EMC Balances Out M&A and R&D
Storage vendor EMC has a very rounded-out strategy that combines a lot of acquisitions, which represent perhaps the bulk of the company’s investments, and in house development. Joe Tucci confirmed this during a keynote…
Intel Invests in Android as Mobile Strategy Emerges
Insyde, a Taiwan-based company that makes firmware based on Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and Android distributions based on the original open-source code Google produces, received some fresh capital this week. Intel Capital made…