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Red Hat Ramping-up PaaS with Makara Acquisition
Open-source giant Red Hat has acquired cloud apps deployment and management solutions developer Makara, accelerating its PaaS offering’s development. “”Cloud Foundations is about enabling customers and developers to have an easy on-ramp to the cloud. With the addition of Makara, we aim to further simplify application deployment and management,” said Paul Cormier, president of Products ...
UK Display Ad Impression Trends Are on the Rise
The UK is a leader in online advertising, and in addition to it being a good market to watch and reach certain conclusions about other market’s development such as the U.S, Canada and France, it has seen some rise in this sector as this eMarketer report highlights. “Display ad impressions (excluding video) rose even more ...
Software Developer Abiquo Raises $10M for the Private Cloud
Enterprise cloud management software company Abiquo today announced it has secured $10M in Series B funding led by the European Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investor Nauta Capital. Abiquo’s products and solutions are aimed to reduce enterprise virtual environments’ complexity and costs. The funding round will be used to expand global sales and ...
FalconStor Interim CEO Jim McNiel on the Past, Future
Interim FalconStor CEO Jim McNiel replacing ReiJane Huai sat down for an interview yesterday, in which he discussed several things, including his vision for the company. The former CEO made improper payments to a “…bigger than a small business” company customer, and he certainly left McNiel with a long road ahead of him. “[Q:]But they’re ...
Minorities Hold the Key to Online Growth in 2011
The growth of the US online population will be primarily based on minorities, as these include Hispanics, African Americans, seniors and children, according to a recently released study by eMarketer. A whopping 32.2 million (the fastest growing demographic) Hispanics are forecast to go online, providing nearly 70% of the U.S Hispanic population, as well as ...
Apple, Microsoft Patent Warfare Gets Intense
Several big-name industry players have been looking for a way to reduce hefty patent-related legal costs for quite some time now, and now Apple and Microsoft are pushing forward in an accelerating rate. Apple is taking on the mobile sector with its iPhone, and Microsoft is facing the PC software front regarding Word. Both industry ...
Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker Moves to Kleiner Perkins
Venture capital company Kleiner Perkins recently snatched influential tech analyst Mary Meeker from Morgan Stanley. Meeker has been involved in the tech scene for some time, and has provided the industry valuable information for many years. There’s a very good reason Business Insider referred to her as Morgan Stanley’s star tech analyst. “Meeker has been ...
IBM and Samlink Ink New Agreement
IBM announced it has a signed a new agreement with Finnish banking and IT solutions provider Samlink to manage the company’s IT infrastructure across its more than 400 branch offices throughout the nation. The 28M euro and five-year agreement follows a previous one between the two companies which goes back to Nov. 2009, where IBM ...
Acer Planning to Jump into the Tablet Market
Today Acer announced its hopping on the ever-growing tablet trend, planning to launch 3 new touchscreen iPad counterparts next year, joining HP and Samsung and the Android tablet market. There isn’t an official name, or even a price to any one of the upcoming devices, but the Taiwanese company had announced it will launch a ...
Microsoft Hires OSM Founder as Principal Architect for Bing Mobile
Steve Coast, the founder of OpenStreetMap – a project enabling users to draw over aerial imagery – has been hired by Microsoft for the role of Principal Architect at Bing Mobile in Seattle. Microsoft will also be contributing free access to its global orthorectified aerial imagery to the OpenStreetMap project. From Coast’s blog: “Today, OpenStreetMap ...