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Cornered by Samsung in the Android ecosystem, Sony may attempt to diversify its mobile lineup through a partnership with Microsoft, insiders told TheInformation this week. The tipsters said that the two rivals are in talks to launch a Windows Phone device as …
HP to fire 5,000 more workers in 2014
Unlike Michael Dell, who last year succeeded in wresting control of his namesake firm from shareholders, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman still has to perform the delicate balancing act between executing her long-term transformation strategy and satisfying Wall Street’s fixation on short-term results. …
Clearwater automates reporting for insurers
Big Data is proving to be a key asset across all vertical markets, with the financial sector in particular emerging as a hotbed of analytics growth. But as unstructured information piles up, practitioners come to realize that extracting meaningful patterns and relations …
Avigilon shells out $32M for video analytics firm
Accounting for more than 50 percent of all internet traffic, video is among the main drivers behind the rapid growth of unstructured information. But while technologies for processing social media interactions and machine logs have garnered a tremendous amount of hype in …
Cloud industry starts 2014 off on the right foot
The cloud is poised for rapid growth in the enterprise, with more and more CIOs embracing hybrid models to keep pace with the growing number of devices and applications in the Internet of Things. John McAdam, the president and CEO of F5 …
HP targets EMEA customers with the POD 20ce | #HPDiscover
Overwhelmed with the amount unstructured information coming in from outside the firewall, CIOs are scurrying to find the talent and technology solutions they need to effectively tap into their growing troves of data. Like most of its peers, tech giant Hewlett-Packard is …
Stealth startup Pushd secures more funding for mysterious product
Pushd, a San Francisco-based stealth startup with rock star social networking talent, has bagged another $1 million from anonymous investors last week, an SEC filing picked up by VentureBeat reveals. The funding brings the company’s total capital raised to $2.35 million. Established …
HP’s David Scott on the different flavors of enterprise storage | #HPDiscover
As senior vice president and general manager of HP Storage, David Scott is at the forefront of industry change, with a finger firmly on the pulse of enterprise demand. In his latest appearance on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, the executive went in-depth on the …
Facebook CIO on analytics in the knowledge economy | #HPDiscover
Second only to Google in digital ad revenue, Facebook is setting an example for the enterprise in leveraging web-based data sources to drive business value. Tim Campos, the social networking behemoth’s CIO, sat down with HP Software head George Kadifa at the …
IBM: Christmas Day sales fueled by record mobile traffic
The explosive growth in mobile data traffic contributed to a 16.5 percent increase in overall Christmas Day sales, IBM has found, with smartphones and tablets accounting for nearly half of all e-commerce activity. That’s up from 28.3 percent in 2012, a jump …