The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) was passed by Congress and signed into law by the president earlier this year with the hope of leveraging the economy and finally moving the recovery out of recession.  One of the star provisions of the JOBS Act is the usage of crowdfunding techniques to help small ...

There is no doubt that this election season has been a long one, started nearly two years ago when the president filed his official election papers, and the campaigning swiftly started.  There is also no doubt that this year, even more so than in the 2008 and 2010 elections, social networks are going to play ...

With the introduction of social media through MySpace society has drastically changed.  Although MySpace has died a slow and painful death, Facebook has become the new dominant social media outlet with the help of Twitter propelling internet-based communication outside of the stratosphere.  How far is social media reaching?  It’s not only shaping relationships and elections, ...

Big data is the Big Deal of 2012.  Now that we have systems smart enough to analyze the data that rolls out in droves from our computers, cell phones, and tablets it would be foolish for governments and politics not to get involved in the game of analyzing that for their gain as well.  Earlier ...

To a few, 2012 is the year of the cloud.  To everyone else, 2012 is the year of big data.  A hot buzzword, “big data has become viable as cost-effective approaches have emerged to tame the volume, velocity and variability of massive data.”  Being able to tame the big data lion is going to open ...

In our increasingly mobile world, all enterprise, regardless of size, needs to have an online presence.  This takes many forms including mobile websites and a social presence.  While Facebook is the largest of the social media websites, there are a multitude of options including Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and the quickly growing Pinterest.  Social coupons such ...

Wikibon, in collaboration with SiliconAngle’s ServicesAngle, conducted it’s very first IT Transformation Survey in May and June of this year.  The research and analytics firm organized the information into seven different Action Items, taking a look at various segments of the field under the heading of “IT Transformation Initiatives.”  The survey looked at the biggest IT ...

EMC, which has been flying high since the wild success of their annual conference in Las Vegas experienced some misfortunes this week when a former employee was charged with theft totaling $220,000. Madeline Vinton on Wednesday pleasd not guilty to five counts of larceny in Woburn Massachusetts and was held on $7,500 cash bail for ...

Today Twilio announces their new Global SMS service now available to customers which has been the one feature that is most requested.  Yesterday Twilio was only able to operate on a few dozen carriers, today that number is well over 1,000 with the ability to send and receive SMS messages to more than 150 countries ...

In the ongoing epic battle between DirecTV and Viacom, it would appear that there is no limit to how far either side will go to prove their point while making the other side look downright evil.  That eventually these two will resume a partnership that will bring both sides massive profits is irrelevant this week ...