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Adknowledge Expands to Facebook, Acquires AdParlor
Leading long tail marketplace, Adknowledge has a pretty strong foothold in every type of advertising (in game, email, etc.) except Facebook. In order to tackle this particularly lucrative area in advertising, they finally completed the acquisition of AdParlor, a leading Facebook Ads management platform. Facebook advertising revenues are expected to grow to about $4 billion ...
Appcelerator Pulls Another $15M, Expands to Europe and Asia
Appcelerator raised an impressive $15 million today from investors Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital, and Red Hat, as well as existing backers eBay, Inc., Sierra Ventures, and Storm Ventures. The company, which develops a solution to allow developers to build apps for iOS and Android while avoiding difficulties such as fragmentation, said it would use the ...
Neo Technology Broadens NoSQL Movement with Spring Data
Enterprise database company Neo Technology unveiled Spring Data Neo4j 2.0 at the SpringOne 2GX 2011 conference this week, the latest version of its NoSQL database for the Spring framework. Neo4j is a part of the Spring Data Project, which is designed to make it easier for Spring developers to leverage emerging technologies in the enterprise, including ...
“Freedom is My Most Prized Possession.” OpenBucks CEO Talks Money Democratization
We take a look at digital currency’s potential in this week’s Profile Snapshot, a series that invites thought leaders and executives to share some personal insight on industry trends. Marc Rochman, founder and CEO of OpenBucks, has nearly 20 years of experience in the world of plastic cards and prepaid services, with a vision of ...
ScaleXtreme Adds CloudStack Support, Thinks Mobile
Cloud-based systems management provider ScaleXtreme has launched support for Citrix CloudStack, expanding its core offering to include yet another stack service. CloudStack is an open source platform, the result of Citrix’s acquisition of Cloud.com earlier this year. In broadening the number of stacks that can be managed from ScaleXtreme’s central platform, the company offers one ...
Syncplicity Gets New CEO as Cloud Strategy Solidifies
Menlo Park, California-based cloud file management provider Syncplicity has reshuffled its management team as a part of an effort to consolidate its strategy in order to better compete in a particularly crowded market. The most notable change is the appointment of Karen White as the company’s new CEO, taking over the role of co-founder Leonard ...
Livefyre Bags $4.5M for Real-Time Comment Streams
Reinventing the way people converse by means of real-time commenting is what Livefyre’s all about. Through its platform, Livefyre builds a hyper-active community within your site that aims to increase traffic and engagement between you and your readers, tying it in with much of the activity that takes place across the social web. The startup ...
The Curated Age Bridges Media and Device with Eye-C
Eyecon Technology is a company that bridges the gap between media and connected entertainment devices, and it’s looking to the mobile sector as another channel to pontoon. With the introduction of the Eye-C iPhone app, Eyecon puts a new spin on curating content spanning our social streams. Combining a social news reader with a media player, Eye-C ...
Four Data Challenges for CMOs
Data has empowered several industries in the past couple of years, especially with the processing power companies like IBM are putting forth, delivering real-time updates and analysis. Running models, making faster business decisions and getting a better handle on predictive analysis have all contributed to the evolution of how companies are operated, but if you ...
What’s the Industry Impact of iCloud and Siri?
Apple decided to launch iCloud, the free online synchronization and backup service, ahead of iOS 5 and Lion version 10.7.2. despite the upgrades being essential to be able to access the new cloud offering. Steve Jobs called iCloud “the soul” of its upcoming operating system, and it is.