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Amazon Seeing Success on both Sides of the Kindle Aisle
Amazon released some new figures about the success of the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select program, which launched in December. The retail giant says that the Kindle E-Book Lending Library now features over 75,000 titles, and demand is on the rise thanks to KDP Select. Customers are allowed to borrow one book per month, and ...
Amazon Opens More Microsoft Functionality for Free Users
The latest post on the AWS blog reveals an update to the AWS Free Usage Tier, which has been made more attractive for the sake of free users. A Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 EC2 t1.micro instance can now be run for up to 750 hours per month without charge, and another 750 hours are ...
AppMobi Launches Mobile-Optimized jQuery Alternative
AppMobi, a maker of mobile development solutions, launched its latest project. The jQ.Mobi JavaScript framework rolled out into private beta under an MIT X11 license, and puts a big emphasis on the “other” type of cloud in the consumer space, enhancing the ideals the mobile industry in particular has adopted. jQ.Mobi is specifically designed to ...
Weekly Tablet Business Apps Roundup, Sketch Rolls Tops the List
This week Sketch Rolls is the featured app in our business tablet apps list. This iPad application differentiates itself from alternatives by offering a simple yet innovative advantage to its users that add a little professional edge. iPad Sketch Rolls Sketch Rolls is what can be called a professional doodling app: its minimalistic interface is ...
SAP Beats Expectations, Hopes to Spirit Marketing with Open-Minded Exec
Business software maker SAP had a strong fourth quarter, beating analysts’ expectations as well as its own. Revenue grew by 12 percent to 3.72 billion euros or $4.7 million, compared to the average sum that analysts predicted: 3.6 billion euros. Operating profit was up 10 percent this quarter, and even managed to lead to a ...
IGT Buys Double Down in Massive Social Gaming Deal
International Game Technology (IGT) has acquired Double Down Interactive, a creator of social games that’s most commonly known for the DoubleDown Casino title. The Facebook-based app was one of the top four games on Facebook in 2011 according to official numbers, in addition to being the single largest online casino on the web. This added ...
Splunk’s Big Data IPO “Imminent,” Insiders Say
Splunk, a maker of machine data aggregation and analysis software for the enterprise, is going public. Citing anonymous “people similar with the matter, Bloomberg reported that Splunk hired Morgan Stanley to lead an upcoming public offering. JPMorgan Chase & Co., Credit Suisse Group AG and Bank of America Corp will also be working on the ...
This Week in Cloud: Storage, PaaS and Smart TVs
This week has been particularly interesting thanks to a handful of very notable updates from all across the industry. The first news flash came from Dell’s direction, which launched its first dedupe offering powered by Compellent’s Fluid Data technology. Dell introduced two new storage offerings this week, including a backup appliance and version 6 of the ...
Fusion-io Hires New Product Development Head
Storage startup Fusion-io hired IT veteran Woody Hutsell as its new director of product management. Hutsell comes to Fusion-io from data storage firm Vion, where he served as an application acceleration practice director and an accounting executive since October 2010. Prior to that Hutsell worked at Texas Memory Systems for about a decade in positions ...
VMware Co-founder Joins Google’s Board
Diane Greene, who helped co-founding virtualization giant VMware in 1998 and served as the company’s CEO for the next decade, has joined Google’s board of directors. Greene has been selected to fill the 10th and last open seat on the search giant’s board, which has been empty ever since Arthur Levinson left in 2009. There ...