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Retailers Struggle with Conversation Rates as Online Shopping Rides the Mobile Wave
The online shopping industry has experienced a tremendous amount of growth in recent years, but retailers are not taking full advantage of this increased demand. These were the findings of IBM’s sixth annual Online Retail Holiday Readiness Report, a 22-page paper detailing the latest trends and best practices in the e-commerce space. The 500 retailers ...
Tresata Enters Milestone Partnership with AVAC
Tresata has teamed up with a research firm called Advanced Valuation Analytics Corporation (AVAC) to develop Big Data applications for the financial services sector. As the name implies, AVAC offers valuation and predictive modeling services for companies that operate in data-driven industries. Led by New York University Professor of Economics Andrew Caplin, the firm lists ...
Qwilt Secures $16 Million in New Capital for Online Video Streaming
With video content accounting for well over half of global internet traffic, cable companies are finding themselves under increased pressure to scale up their infrastructure and improve user experience. The problem is that keeping up with viewer demand without breaking the budget is easier said than done. In comes Qwilt, a Redwood City-based startup that ...
Michael Dell Won’t Budge Despite Negative Response to New Offer
Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners upped their offer for Dell last week in an attempt to persuade the company’s special committee to change investor voting rules. The founder hopes to tip the balance in his favor by reducing the threshold requirement of the August 2 ballot that will determine the future of his namesake ...
Android, China Lead the Mobile Market
What do Google and China have in common (besides a poor track record in data privacy)? They’re both leading the mobile space. Android devices shipped with over half the smartphones sold in the quarter ending in June 2013, a period during which China furthered its lead as the most malware-ridden nation on earth. The latest ...
QLogic Sees 13.2% Revenue Decline in First Quarter
QLogic may be edging closer to a turnaround, but its latest earnings showed few signs of recovery. The Aliso Viejo, California-based supplier of data center networking equipment reported first quarter sales of $113.1 million, down 13.2 percent from the same period last year and 3.2 percent down from the fourth quarter. The company’s revenues were ...
Cisco, NetApp Bolster FlexPod Lineup with Hadoop-based Configurations
Converged infrastructure is on the rise, and so is Big Data analytics. Cisco and long time ally NetApp put two and two together and expanded their jointly developed FlexPod lineup with two cutting edge Hadoop appliances. The newly announced FlexPod Select Series combines NetApp’s E-Series and FAS storage systems with Unified Computing System (UCS) servers, ...
App Annie Opens Flagship Analytics Platform for Enterprise Users
App Annie, the highly successful app analytics startup, just released the latest version of its flagship offering. The new edition introduces several features, including a mobile app that lets users to keep track of their apps’ performance on the go. The App Annie Analytics client application is joined by a set of APIs that enable ...
GridGain Raises $10 Million for In-Memory Analytics
GridGain, a Foster City, CA.-based distributed computing firm, just received $10 million in Series B financing from Almaz Capital and existing investor RTP Ventures. The round brings the company’s total funding to $12 million. GridGain sells a Java-based in-memory analytics solution for distributed environments. The offering consists of two components: GridGain In-Memory Compute Grid (IMCG,) ...
Michael Dell Sweetens the Pot for Shareholders
Michael Dell rescheduled the much anticipated shareholder vote on his company’s future for the second time this month in an effort to increase support for his modestly sweetened buyout offer. Dell and partner Silver Lake Partners bumped their bid by 10 cents to $13.75 per share, or $24.6 billion, and requested that the board committee ...