If you follow the tech space, you’re probably already familiar with the big geolocation services and know that they have APIs – things like Google Maps, Foursquare, Bing Maps and even the Twitter Geolocation API. Here are a few APIs that aren’t as well known, but could be extremely useful for organizations building applications and ...

Boston based venture capital firm Atlas Venture and consulting firm Bocoup have launched Game Lab, a new fund for companies building technologies that will advance the development of video games with HMTL5 on the Open web. These need not be game companies, just any company that will advance the technology that contributes to the open ...

Google has released the code Android 4.0, better known as Ice Cream Sandwich. Google delayed releasing the code for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), which criticism from some open source advocates. The acquisition of Motorola furthered fears that Google was backing away from its commitment to making Android an open platform. So the release of Android 4.0, ...

At Dreamforce this year Salesforce.com executives said the company is taking a more consultative role. The company is making good on that promise today with an agreement to acquire Model Metrics, a social cloud consulting services company. Model Metrics handles Salesforce.com deployments and builds custom Web and mobile applications built on the Salesforce.com back-end amongst ...

Last week I mentioned I was a bit grouchy about the failures of social business. Here’s an example of why: 42% of the respondents haven’t generated any leads from their social media campaigns, according to an article by Jeffrey L. Cohen writes about a Pardot survey on B2B marketers using social media. The survey reports ...

This morning ReadWriteWeb Vice President of Content Development Marshall Kirkpatrick announced that he is stepping back from full-time involvement at the popular tech blog and launching a new startup called Plexus Engine, which will help surface relevant information about various topics. Kirkpatrick has been using custom social media intelligence tools to find stories for ReadWriteWeb ...

Abhi Mehta was a managing director for Bank of America. Now he’s running his own big data startup Tresata, which he announced on theCube last February. Mehta returned to theCube at HadoopWorld 2011, where he talked to hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante about Apache Hadoop in finance and the enterprise. Mehta was joined by ...

Yesterday during his keynote at HadoopWorld 2011, Apache Hadoop creator and Cloudera employee Doug Cutting announced that the next version of Cloudera’s Distribution Including Hadoop (CDH4) will be based on Apache BigTop. But what exactly is BigTop? Eli Collins, one of the key developers working on BigTop at Cloudera, appeared on theCube to talk about ...

As we’ve noted there’s an increasing demand for workers with Apache Hadoop skills. But if you’re a developer or IT operations professional, how can you learn more about Hadoop? MapR, a company that sells its own enterprise distribution of Hadoop (see our coverage), announced a new training program today called MapR Academy, which offers free ...

 Yammer announced a new version that incorporates three new features: Yammer Pages, Yammer Files and Yammer Ticker. Yammer Pages is a document collaboration tool that Yammer CTO Adam Pisoni describes as a cross between Google Docs and a wiki. Actually, it looks a lot like Whiteboards in Basecamp. Yammer Files is pretty much what it ...