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Mobile Video Gets Premium Update, HBO Goes Head-to-Head with Netflix
Video streaming is becoming more significant on the go, as devices are getting stronger and companies are coming up with better offerings. HBO is one of those companies, and we’ve learned that HBO Go, a service allowing users to stream some 1,400 titles over the web, will soon hit the iPhone, iPad and Android. “HBO’s ...
EnterpriseDB Update: Saving With Open Source
Today we’ve learned of an update coming from EnterpriseDB, the largest independent PostgreSQL open source database technology provider. The company released a customer case study detailing how international marketing services company Aquent replaced its existing Sybase database with EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Advanced Server. Adquent operates data centers in the U.S, Europe and Asia, and estimates savings ...
Sonos Expands the Personal (Music) Cloud
Streaming-music technology maker Sonos launched a free app for Android app, supporting most of the operating system’s phones and tablets. The app utilizes Android’s built-in voice recognition feature to offer voice search, and controls the volume of a Sonos device using the Android volume keys. The move further develops the personal cloud space, emphasizing an industry ...
Zillow and Envivio Catch IPO Fever
Seattle-based real-estate information site Zillow has filed initial paperwork to kick off an initial public offering. The company hopes to raise $57 million, and will use the investment for general purposes, such as working capital, sales initiatives and so on. Zillow’s prospectus is underwritten by Citi, Allen & Company, Needham & Company, ThinkEquity and First ...
Groupon and Twitter Grow Big Data Analytics with Acquisitions
Groupon’s making the most out of its millions of users, and analyzes its big data to determine the effectiveness of its advertising expenditures, consumer behavior as well as purchaser demographics and location. This is done to maintain a leadership position in hyperlocal marketing, and the company just made a high progile acquisition to assist in ...
Data Scientists Get Props from EMC, Jitterbit
The big data revolution is doing more than just introducing new levels of effectiveness – it’s also spurring a new breed of workers. The data scientist is heavily relying on the cloud, accessing the information and the tools with the right processing power to do the job. This audience has apparently caught the eyes of ...
Monday Morning Cloud Roundup: Cloudera, Cisco and Beyond
This past week in the cloud has been a particularly exciting one. This is notably because some of major, multibillion-dollar milestones some of the biggest players in tech has reached, as well as a number of highlighted product releases. For example, Cisco and Verizon just rolled their joint cloud-based unified communications service into beta, marking ...
Millennial Media to Double Staff as it Heads to an IPO
Today we’ve learned that Millennial Media, the largest remaining independent mobile ad network, will grow its staff by nearly 50 percent. This will involve the hiring of about 60 new staff members by the end of the year, and comes as the ad network is gradually moving towards an initial public offering. “Millennial Media is ...
DataDirect Launches NAS Scaler for Private/Public Clouds
DataDirect Networks, a leading storage company, has had a few significant developments this week, among them the announcement of its new NAS Scaler enterprise file storage platform, a cost-efficient and scalable multi-protocol network-attached storage (NAS) solution. NAS Scaler is designed for high-growth cloud service providers, unstructured data, and machine-generated data sets, and offers the lowest total cost ...
FCC Begins Review of AT&T-Mobile Deal, Reiterates Motives
AT&T’s planned acquisition of competitor T-Mobile for a whopping $39 billion stirred a lot of buzz lately, and as the story is beginning unfold, it’s also raising some eyebrows in Washington. And now that the government’s formal review of the deal started, AT&T has decided to reiterate its case for why the deal should be ...