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Tech Companies Continue Raising Relief Funds for Japan
The earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan left over 18,000 confirmed dead or missing, and tech companies from the far reaches of Silicon Valley signed up to aid in relief efforts. LivingSocial is the latest company to do so – the daily deals site and Groupon competitor raised exactly $2,301,130 for the American Red Cross’s ...
Every Federal Agency Needs a Big Data Strategy: Report
Big Data innovation and tools adoption is inevitable as the web and tech industry advance and get more and more sophisticated. This is also true for the public sector, which is why the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) working group announced the Designing a Digital Future report. The 119-page report to ...
Where the Personal Cloud Meets Storage: Organizing Facebook, and Everything Else
Social networking was once the new kid on the block, but as it matured to become a multi-billion dollar industry, and spurred a few dozen new industries along the way. Personal cloud and storage took its place amongst these new services. The next big thing may just be personal cloud services -“Facebook is for your ...
CrowdFlower Raises Funds, Goes Beyond Crowdsourcing: Big Data Analytics
Big data is one of the most buzzed about catch phrases you’ll hear in the cloud, and more and more companies are hopping on this bandwagon to turn all that buzz into revenue. The latest example is CrowdFlower, the popular crowdsourcing platform, which announced a couple of big developments today: it raised $7 million in ...
Diskeeper Launches New Analytics Product, Industry Gets Heated
Data protection, hardware optimization and backup are some of the hottest trends in the cloud right now, and we’ve just got an upgrade from Diskeeper. The veteran data performance software vendor, which has been around since 1986, today announced the latest version of its flagship product: Diskeeper 2011. The offering seems to bring along some ...
HP Says Japanese Employees Safe, Prices Going Up
Hewlett-Packard released some information on how it and its local operations were affected from the Japanese earthquake – the same story it shares with other major players in the tech industry. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, HP noted all of its local employees are safe and none of its Tokyo offices ...
Social Bookmarks Pay Off in Big Data Markets
Free social bookmarking service AddToAny just turned a profit – right before it’s having its 5th anniversary this week (same age as Twitter!). The AddToAny button is one of the most-used widgets on the web – and the most distributed one from a bootstrapped start-up. It handles over a billion widget loads and millions of ...
HP Gets into your Pocket: Prepaid Cards to Stimulate Consumer Buys
The financial industry will be going through a transformation as online payment solutions and technologies such as NFC are being deployed. However, the wallet and credit card won’t disappear anytime soon – at least, that’s what HP seems to think. Today the world’s biggest computer manufacturer announced the HP Prepaid Card Services suit, a payment ...
Deloitte Names Top SaaS Trends to Watch
As the cloud finds new business opportunities in services and products, it’s important to watch out for trends developing in the industry, from an IT management standpoint, the executive level, and beyond. With 2011 nearing Q2, it’s a good time to reflect on initial trends, as well as areas of growing potential. Consultation firm Deloitte ...
Cisco Declares First Dividend, Addresses Japan and Gets Nostalgic
We’ve had a couple of Cisco updates, as well as an interesting look into its history – which doesn’t seem to fit into the drastic fall its shares experienced in the past year or so. This 35 percent drop is the motive which drove the (still) no. 1 networking giant to announce its first cash ...