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Cisco Reports Mobile Data Growth, Rolls out New Products at MWC
The Barcelona-held Mobile World Congress had seen a lot activity this week, and networking giant Cisco is also joining the mobile party with some news of its own. The first highlight is a mobile data traffic report the company released. Cisco reports mobile traffic grew by 156 percent in 2010, totaling at about 237 petabytes ...
Mobile Game Markets Take a Serious Leap Forward: The Android Symbiosis
GetJar, a leading cross-platform app store which reports 1.5 billion app downloads to date, announced it has raised $25 million in Series C funding. The sum was raised from Tiger Global Management, and existing investor Accel Partners will also participate in the round. The capital will also be used to further develop the app store ...
The Tech Industry Steadily Invests, AOL CEO and Others are All Over this Bandwagon
There have been a great deal of significant investments going on in the tech industry these past couple of weeks, and AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong has hopped on the bandwagon. The Wall Street Journal reports that Armstrong increased his share of AOL to 4 percent by acquiring 477,000 shares at an average price ...
Akamai and Ericsson Team-Up in the Cloud
Akamai and Ericsson announced a team-up at the 2011 Mobile World Congress this week, to create a mobile cloud acceleration platform extending Akamai’s reach even further. The exclusive deal between the two is aimed to set-up content delivery networks “touching” operator networks on a global scale in order to introduce better service, new business models ...
HP Goes Hard with Data Markets, Set to Acquire Vertica
Hewlett-Packard has announced it’s signed an agreement to acquire cloud analytics platforms provider Vertica for an undisclosed amount. With the acquisition of Vertica the electronics giant can enhance its data optimization offerings portfolio with real-time, large-scale analytics. “In today’s highly competitive environment, customers need the ability to manage the increasing amounts of data and growing streams ...
Motorola Takes Android to Work, and Beyond: MWC 2011 Coverage
Motorola had a lot to announce in this year’s Mobile World Congress event, focusing on security as well as enterprise mobile. The first piece of news is the acquisition of Android enterprise security start-up 3LM. Motorola is expected to officially announce the acquistion later today. Basically, the purpose of this move is to help Motorola sell ...
Intel Invests $26M in Mobile Cloud
The latest addition of Intel’s massive recent investments spree is a $26 million investment in the mobile cloud, specifically in 6 international companies stretching from Beijing to Menlo Park, California. Among these companies is open-source video platform provider Kaltura and InVisage Technologies, who offers a quantum dot-based material essentially replacing the silicon (but not the ...
The Cloud Reformation around Digital, Print Media
The cloud is infiltrating everything, and the media sector, in all its many facets, is no exception. We’ve seen a lot of activity bringing the cloud to this ever-changing segment; a growing trend which coincides with reader ‘print-abandonment’ in favor of digital editions. However, while printing may be a dying industry in some areas, Google ...
FalconStor’s So-So Earnings Call for Innovation in 2011
Disk-base data protection company FalconStor had its earnings call this week, which reflects an earlier decline for the company, but also some optimistic growth outlook throughout Q4, 2011. The company reports a record of $26.5 million in revenues in the fourth quarter, which represents an increase of 18% compared to the same period in 2009, ...
Microsoft-Nokia Love Match Takes Mobile Industry in New Direction
The mobile space had seen a lot of activity, updates, rumors and news breaks this past week or so, and it’s indicative of some larger trends taking place within the industry. As it pertains to user adoption, consumer behavior and business wars, mobile is a hot topic, with plenty to talk about. The Nokia/Microsoft deal ...