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What Special Skills Do You Need to Run a Big Data Startup? Q&A Series
Sumo Logic is still what you’d consider a startup, but already its demonstrated some useful life lessons for applying ideas to the big data industry, including the concept of harnessing the right talent. Specializing in log data analytics, Sumo Logic emerged from stealth earlier this year to take on heavyweights like Splunk with a penchant ...
Is Yammer a Smart Buy or is Microsoft Riding the Bandwagon?
Microsoft Corp. finally admitted that they’re acquiring Yammer Inc., a provider of enterprise social networks, for $1.2 billion in cash. The Yammer team will be joining the Microsoft Office Division, led by division President Kurt DelBene, and the team will continue to report to current CEO David Sacks. “The acquisition of Yammer underscores our commitment ...
appMobi Spreads the Gospel of HTML5, Sees Facebook as Key to Mobile App Discovery
HTML5 is of growing interest to mobile developers in particular, but many questions have been raised about this gaining standard and its ability to unify our mobile experience. Mobile development tools maker appMobi recognizes the apprehension over HTML5, and hopes to ease our minds with some stats that demonstrate a very solid uptake of HTML5 ...
An App to Test Apps: Telerik’s Latest Move Into iOS
App development solutions maker Telerik unveiled its latest project: a beta testing tool for iOS that can be downloaded directly from the App Store. The goal of the application is to drastically simplify beta testing and customer feedback by making it a much more straight-forward process for developers and end users alike. Test Studio for ...
The Genius Behind Foodie Data: Q&A with Food Genius CEO Justin Massa
If you know anything about Walmart, you know their in-store cameras track your every move, feeding the mega-store enough data to help them design aisles, strategically place products and even play the right music. There’s an enormous amount of data in the grocery industry alone, and moving down the line, from supply and demand to ...
Applicasa Rolls out Backend-as-Service for Android
Applicasa is a new mobile startup that is trying to address an area that is being targeted increasingly nowadays: server-side scripting. The creation of an app that connects to the web doesn’t end at just coding – it also means setting up the environment that will support a range of functionality. It’s a tedious task ...
Dell Speaks On Dividend Payout, Cost-Cutting and Fresh Focus on Data Centers
In a meeting with analysts, Dell Inc., one of the largest personal computer makers remaining in the market, founder Michael Dell stated that the company would focus more on data center gear, cutting costs, and paying dividends starting this year. Dell shifts focus on the data center Dell is currently a seller of other vendors’ ...
18 Months Later Microsoft’s Metro Still Advancing
Throughout the past 18 months Microsoft has been carving out a new niche in user experience with its Metro interface. It’s used by Windows Phone 7 and will be the default UI setting in the upcoming Windows 8 release, but it hasn’t started to snowball just yet. Last month Metia’s Rich Blackwell wrote up a ...
The Future for IBM Storage is All About Leveraging Flash
With its debut this week, the IBM Edge conference in Orlando, FL is Big Blue’s opportunity to trumpet its storage offerings in an increasingly competitive market. With EMC’s acquisition of Xtreme-IO rounding out the storage giant’s own flagship event last week at EMC World, IBM is finding itself in the necessary position to better market ...
BumeBox CEO on the Impact of Real-Time Data for Social Marketing [Q&A Series]
Real-time interaction is something that can be applied to just about any industry, creating a hub of connected activity that works for sporting events, fashion shows and even movie premiers. In fact, if you’ve been following the marketing around Charlize Theron’s latest flick Prometheus, you may have come across BumeBox’s live social stream, pooling the best ...