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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 ...
Check-Ins Are Hot, But Privacy Issues Cool Things Down
Location-based services are dubbed by some to be the next stage in evolution for mobile and social networking, but some fresh research indicates these claims are not backed by user interest. Web marketing agency White Horse has just released some new stats suggesting just that – according to the company more than 60 percent of ...
Easter Serves a Treat for Online Retailers, but What’s Next?
Easter is predicated to generate $14.6 billion in retail sales, and a online retailers account for a very big chunk of that revenue. More and more people are shopping g online, but apparently, customers are also spending more. According to a new study conducted by the National Retail Federation for BIGresearch, online shoppers will spend ...
Android Market Brings Direct Carrier Billing to Sprint, Exclusive Channel to Sony
In its efforts to compete and takeover iOS, one of Google’s key focuses is its Android Market. In order to surpass Apple in the mobile customer arena, the internet giant needs to make its app marketplace as featured-packed and safe as possible, and news of 2 moves aiming towards that just crossed the wire. An ...