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Yahoo’s Tax-Free Shares Sale May Haul in $18 Billion
Yahoo! is looking to generate some extra cash from its assets in Asia, specifically a part of its 40 percent stake of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, and its entire 35 percent portion of Yahoo! Japan. The news has not yet been confirmed, but this move makes sense – Yahoo’s ad business is staggering behind ...
SAP Integrates with Google, Releases Cloud Case Study
SAP and Google are embarking on an extensive partnership that will focus mainly on the integration of the former’s subscription-based Business ByDesign ERP suite with Google Apps. A pilot is set to launch in the third quarter of 2012, intitally available only to customers in the U.S, UK and France. Bernd-Uwe Pagel, senior vice president ...
Insider Leak Reveals Dell’s Plans around Force10, Networking
Brad Hedlund, a former Cisco employee who’s currently working with the now Dell-owned Force10, suggested in a blog comment that Dell is becoming ambitious in the networking space. In the post picked up by Business Insider, Hedlund said that the objective is to undercut Cisco’s prices on networking gear and offer the cheaper Force10 products. ...
Verizon Copes with Outages while Pursuing Network Gains
Today Verizon have suffered the second major outage within the past two weeks. Customers have reported their issues via the carrier’s support forums and Twitter. Verizon’s data network is down in various areas of coverage in the U.S, and users are having trouble getting connected, or are dealing with much slower access. The Verge reports ...
Oracle Earnings Slow, Tech Industry May Soon Follow
Oracle’s earnings for its second quarter ending in November disappointed shareholders, as speculations arise that the company’s lower sales may be a part of a broader trend that may soon impact the rest of the tech industry. The software maker reported a net income of 54 cents per share, compared to Wall Street’s average expectation ...
Zayo’s New, Green Fibre Solutions for the Datacenter
Fiber infrastructure solutions provider Zayo said it has completed a project to integrate a fiber build into Green House Data’s Wyoming facility. The company operates a SSAE 16, Type II data center that’s the first of its kind in the state, and offers hosting services and colocation services. As the name would imply, the owners ...
Google Invests in Solar Power, Facebook Adopts Green Trend
Tech companies are getting more eco-friendly. Several of the biggest names on the web and in social media have been carrying out similar plans on a very large scale, Google and Facebook being the latest examples. The search giant is hedging $1 billion in green investments now that it has injected $94 million into the ...
IBM Snatches up Curam as a part of Aggressive Analytics M&A Strategy
IBM embarked on a series of major software acquisitions recently in order to strengthen its portfolio across a wide range of sectors and industries. Big Blue pursued the analytics angle for the most part with its previous buys, though the latest one is an exception. Curam a company that makes social enterprise management software designed ...
Broadcom Wins Emulex Patent Suit
After Emulex rejected Broadcom’s two-month effort to acquire the company in July 2009, it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the latter that has finally been closed, Bloomberg reported. U.S. District Judge James Selna of Santa Ana, Calif. denied a motion by Emulex for summary judgment on the verdict. The judge found that three Emulex ...
Fusion-io, SolidFire Bulk Up Boards of Directors
Both Fusion-io and SolidFire have expanded their board of directors this week with the additions of industry veterans who will hopefully help bolster growth. Shane Robison, former executive vice president and CTO for Hewlett-Packard, is joining the Fusion-io board’s Audit Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. He worked at HP since 2002 up until ...