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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 of new tools and products designed for virtualized …
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 today, and display ad revenues were up four …
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 project, though has been powering it for years. …
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 the two most dominant mobile OSs, and sheds …
Oracle BI Aims for iPad, Mobile Enterprise
Today Oracle released the latest version of its Business Intelligence software. Business Intelligence Release 11.1.1.5 comes with full iPad and iPhone support, and eliminates the need to rewrite existing dashboards and reports, according to the company. Users can now access and carry …
Hometown Layoffs After Novell Deal Finalizes
The Attachmate Group finalized its $2.2 billion buyout of network industry pioneer Novell a few days ago. The latter will be separated into two separate business units, one focused on the Novell brand and the other on the SUSE Linux brand. Now, …
mBlast Data Giveaway Takes Cue from Open Cloud Trends
Today we’ve learned that mBlast, a developer of cloud-based marketing applications, launched the free version of its mPact solution. mPact is a product which aggregates big data from Facebook, Twitter, blogs and other websites to determine the top influencers and voices for …
Location Creates its Own Hot Market in Mobile, More Acquisitions
Location-based search engine Local.com has acquired Krillion for $3.5 million to strengthen its position in the market. Krillion too operates a location-based search engine, which aggregates data about products from local stores and put them in a searchable database. It’s the latest …
The Cloud Executive Shuffle: Nirvanix, Twitter and AppSense
The tech space has seen a lot of hires and fires lately, and three big names in cloud, virtualization and social media just joined the club. The first one is Nirvanix, an enterprise cloud storage company which just hired a new VP. …
RIM’s Shopping Spree Flags Mobile Security Efforts
RIM announced today its latest acquisition – a smartphone security software developer company called Ubitexx. Unitexx raised over $4 million in funding, and its flagship offering is its mobile security software, ubi-Suite, which is what RIM is really interested in. Terms of …