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Does Skype Need Another Daddy?
Reuters broke the news last night that social networking titan Facebook may just be buying Skype. A source reportedly said that CEO Mark Zuckerberg is amidst deep talks about buying Skype. This multi-billion deal…
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The Cloud M&A Scene Too Hot to Handle?
The cloud industry represents a constantly maturing and expanding trend, and it seems that every spark of innovation can trigger quite a bit of interest from some of the biggest players in IT. This…
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Oracle vs. Google: Judge Removes Vast Majority of Claims
Oracle and Google have been clashing in court over alleged Android and Java-related infringements on seven of Oracle’s patents. And now, it turns out that Google won the latest battle. The California judge handling…
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Cisco Overhauling Management In light of Skidding Market Share
Cisco’s stock skidded by roughly 34 percent in the past year or so, and after four very weak quarters, CEO John Chambers is carrying out his intentions, which he outlined in a memo he…
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Failed Phone Authentication Costs Companies Money: ClickFox Report
Analytics company ClickFox released its latest Customer Experience Analytics Insights report, which focuses on customer service phone systems. It turns out that 10 percent of all customers are transferred to an agent due a…
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Cisco Introduces its First Datacenter Container
Today Cisco made a serious push in the datacenter hardware market, introducing its first ‘datacenter in a shipping container’ offering. This move represents a huge leap for the networking giant, who has now intensified…
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EMC, VMware Step it Up a Notch
There have been quite a bit of product launches going on in every segment of the cloud lately, and EMC and VMware are the latest ones to join that list. Storage giant EMC announced a lineup…
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New Online Media Shows Promise and Profit for AOL, Beyond
The internet is evolving, and so does media as a whole. We’ve seen a couple of significant markers of that this past 24 hours, starting with AOL. The internet company had its earnings call…
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Shaky Start for VMware Cloud Foundry: 2 Outages
VMware’s beta open-source PaaS offering, the Cloud Foundry, has experienced not one, but two outages. That’s never a good sign for a cloud company, and while the virtualization giant’s Cloud Foundry is a new…
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Where’s the Mobile App Market Headed?
At the AppNation conference in San Francisco this week, research firm Nielsen’s Jonathan Carson, CEO, Telecom unveiled some fresh research on the U.S. mobile apps market. The study strengthens Android and IOS’s status as…