Klint Finley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Salesforce.com Buys Rypple and Gives it Another Name Sure to Taunt its SAP Rival

By Klint Finley Dec 15, 2011

Less than two weeks ago SAP bought human resources/human capital management software-as-a-service company SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion. Salesforce.com followed suit today with the purchase of Rypple, an employee performance management SaaS, for an undisclosed…

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Capgemini Expands Presence in China

By Klint Finley Dec 15, 2011

Capgemini will expand its focus on China, going so far as to dedicate some of its Indian workforce to bolster its Chinese operations, according to the Times of India. “Currently 5% of Capgemini’s revenues…

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Freemium Validation: SurveyMonkey Acquires MarketTools, Valued at $1 Billion

By Klint Finley Dec 14, 2011

It’s been a good week for Portland startups. Jive Software, which is headquartered in Palo Alto but started in Portland and still has many employees here, launched its IPO. And now SurveyMonkey, another Portland…

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Deloitte Launches “Postdigital Enterprise” to Help Companies Understand Developers, Social Data

By Klint Finley Dec 14, 2011

As the big data explosion continues and cloud, mobile and social change both customer and employee expectations many businesses struggle to determine how to navigate this new landscape. The role developers are playing in…

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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em: Microsoft and Open Source

By Klint Finley Dec 13, 2011

Earlier this year I wrote that Microsoft needed to open source something big. Even Apple, hardly a bastion of openness, had its Darwin and Webkit projects. Microsoft was talking to the open source talk,…

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Infographic: The Most Popular Tools and Services Among Developers

By Klint Finley Dec 13, 2011

BestVendor recently polled 500 developers around the world to ask them what tools they use, from IDEs to project management to frameworks to databases. It sheds light on trends in cloud storage, hosting and…

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Mobile OS “Also Rans” Turning Sights to Bigger Prizes

By Klint Finley Dec 13, 2011

Microsoft may be gunning for the iPad with its future Windows 8 tablets, but in the mean time Redmond is beginning to roll out its signature productivity apps on the iPad. Microsoft released a…

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Microsoft Embraces Node.js, DevOps and Hadoop with new Azure Release

By Klint Finley Dec 12, 2011

Microsoft announced an update to its Azure cloud service that adds support for developing on Azure using Node.js, among other new features and improvements Microsoft is also offering a limited preview of its Apache…

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HP Executives: webOS is a Platform, Not an Operating System

By Klint Finley Dec 9, 2011

HP will transform webOS into a platform with the goal of creating a world-class HTML5-browser that would potentially compete more with Chrome and Safari than Android or iOS. The strategy would put HP on…

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HP Open Sources WebOS – Will it Be Enough to Lure Developers?

By Klint Finley Dec 9, 2011

HP is open sourcing WebOS, the mobile operating system acquired from Palm last year for $1.2 billion, and Enyo, the development framework for the OS. WebOS has been widely praised yet has struggled to…

Klint Finley

Capgemini Expands Presence in China

Freemium Validation: SurveyMonkey Acquires MarketTools, Valued at $1 Billion

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em: Microsoft and Open Source

HP Executives: webOS is a Platform, Not an Operating System

HP Open Sources WebOS – Will it Be Enough to Lure Developers?

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