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SAP Skirts Antritrust Issues with Success Factors, Bright Year Ahead
SAP has come a long way in the past year, expanding into new rapidly growing areas in hopes of boosting revenue. The software maker has been modernizing its portfolio to address current trends among enterprise customers, and M&A played a key role in this strategy. This month the company announced one of its most significant ...
Facebook Affiliate Marketing Scams Top the 2011 Malware Chart
New analysis by security firm Commtouch has identified scams related to affiliate marketing as the most wide-spread type of fraud on Facebook, accounting for two thirds of this sort of malicious activity carried out across the social network. Scammers exploit regular businesses that finance affiliate marketing campaigns by tricking Facebook users into filling out paid ...
OpenLogic PaaS Now Deploys on Rackspace Cloud
OpenLogic said today that its open-source PaaS offering can now be deployed by Rackspace Cloud users. CloudSwing is also becoming available via the Rackspace Cloud Tools catalog. CloudSwing’s big attraction is that users can fully customize the various technology stacks while leveraging OpenLogic’s support for over 600 open source packs, as well as the platform’s ...
LCD Makers Settle Another Antitrust Lawsuit Amidst Industry Woes
Seven different LCD manufacturers have been ordered to split a $553 million bill as part of an antitrust settlement, in addition to having to set up appropriate programs in order to avoid repeating a similar scenario in the future. This is the second settlement of its kind in December, concerning the indirect customers that have ...
Pervasive Personal Cloud is the Future According to John McCrea
Industry veteran John McCrea sees 2012 as transformational for the personal cloud. He laid out his expectations in an interview with SiliconANGLE Editor-in-Chief Mark Hopkins and in a post on his blog, therealmccrea.com. McCrea’s forecast is based mostly on the premise that the four major trends in this space will converge into a single megatrend, ...
Enterprise Cloud 2012: Key Trends to Look Out For
This year has been a significant one for enterprise cloud adoption, and 2012 will be even more so. There are a few predictions that outline the general direction towards which the industry is headed, highlighting a few key indicators that will play the most significant roles in this movement. One of the forecasts comes from ...
Apple Fined for Not Complying with EU Consumer Regulations
Apple Sales International, Apple Italia Srl and Apple Retail Italia were fined a total of 900,000 Euros, or about $1.2 million, by Italy’s Antitrust Authority for misleading customers about its tech support polices. Officials said that the three divisions failed to notify customers they deserve two years of support according to EU laws, and instead provided ...
This Week in Cloud: Expansion, New Funding
This past week or so we’ve had a couple of product announcements from three major players in the industry, in addition to two milestone rounds of funding in two smaller companies. SAP announced a major partnership with Google to integrate its ByDesign suite with Google Apps. The agreement has several aspects to it, representing a ...
Cisco Networking Academy Opens Up First Branch in Rio
Cisco’s first Praça do Conhecimento, or “Knowledge Square,” has been launched in Rio de Janeiro this week. The project is a collaboration between city officials and the Cisco Networking Academy; a global program that offers networking education and certification required in order to qualify for technical positions in this field. The first square is located ...
Big Data Growth: Increased Awareness for Better or Worse
Big data and Hadoop were big in 2011, and will likely be bigger in the coming year. O’Reilly’s Audrey Watters looked at the direction this trend took in the past year, and rounded up some key points. VC Interest One of the main indicators of growth is the mounting VC interest in big data companies. ...