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EMC Earnings Beat Analyst Estimates; Revenue Down Slightly
EMC (NYSE: EMC) reported Q4 EPS of $0.69, beating analyst estimates of $0.68. Revenue for the quarter came in at $7.05 billion versus the consensus estimate of $7.1 billion. Industry executives all agree that lots of the services that exist today are useful technologies, but are not new. There’s still a lot of opportunity to find ...
New VC ventureLab hopes to create a better model for global startups; the secret: a fast path to revenues
Smart investors are looking to international markets for both investing and expanding businesses. Now gaining some interest in the startup world. While VC’s are on track to set a five year record on investing internationally, several notable Silicon Valley VC’s have announced expanded investment overseas. Recently, Ernst & Young reports that two thirds of global ...
Microsoft buys Revolution Analytics increasing momentum for popular R programming language
Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial provider of software and services for R, the world’s most widely used programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics. R has been popularized by the growing data science community, for whom it has become the defacto standard. The deal is important not just for Microsoft ...
#GreenCloud Big Data & Efficiency Driving Sustainability in the data center and cloud with insights into efficiency.
Big data & efficiency is driving efficiency in the data center. Scott Raynovich is holding a crowdsourced conversation on the topic. Here is the crowd in action. Topic: How Big Data can drive sustainability in the data center and cloud with insights into efficiency.
Illumio emerges from stealth with Adaptive Security Platform
Illumio, the much anticipated virtualization security startup emerged from stealth mode today to show off its Adaptive Security Platform to address the massive data center transformation to the cloud. The bottleneck in this transformation is security. This company claimed its new adaptive security model is a first-of-its-kind solution that provides granular visibility and security across ...
Live: The Open Social Enterprise #TEDatIBM CrowdChat
IBM is having a live crowd conversation 10am PST today. Come join the crowd from Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook users for a unified conversation on the hashtag #TEDatIBM as pre-event conversation about the open social enterprise. Thought leaders are discussing the mega trend as social media shift to social business. Live crowd conversation on CrowdChat.net/TEDatIBM ...
Tableau #Data14 CrowdChat Conversations
Tableau #Data14 conference CrowdChat transcript.
CrowdChat Example of Engagement Container Technology
This is an example of the embedded application of our new “engagement container” technology in action. All updates from CrowdChat.net/HybridITfiles is happening anywhere the container is embedded. What Influencers and Users Are Saying About CrowdChat Ray Wang puts it all together in this interview with me on the innovation of crowdchat – crowd activated content Dan ...
Social Media Chat – Are Brands Always On? #SocBizChat
Great CrowdChat today on the question of: Is Your Brand Always On? Think like a media company. Learn how businesses are developing successful brand strategies.
IBM Social CrowdChat on #BigData #TEDatIBM
IBM hosted a live CrowdChat on #TEDatIBM – crowdsourced conversation about Big Data. It was a 1-hour “content jam” with passionate thought leaders and social users interested in the intersection of social and data. Top Conversations in the Crowd The top discussion threads with the most engagement as voted by the crowd was: “How can ...
