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Weddzilla Builds on Big Data Brides, Babies Next
Mobile apps are great at one thing in particular–contextualizing personal data. They’re able to lock in your environmental interactions, noting searches, location, travel and buying patterns, images and time stamps. This is how mobile apps become extensions of our individualized existence, and the potential behind this is quite powerful for a consumer-driven economy such as our own. ...
Akamai Taps Riverbed to Make Hybrid Cloud Seamless
When it comes to the progression of cloud computing, speed is a major factor in these days of immediacy. Akamai’s well aware of culture’s growing demand in this arena, providing cloud optimization services that focus on speed and efficiency. They’ve teamed up with Riverbed, provider of WAN optimization, for a breakthrough product, with an aim ...
Clearspring’s $20M Data Dive: Fresh Funds, Big Plans
Clearspring’s been steadily expanding on its foundation for well over a year now, so it wasn’t surprising to hear they’d raised $20 million in a Series D round of funding. Led by IVP, with participation from existing investors, the fresh infusion is slotted to continue Clearspring’s growth around big social data, something co-founder and CEO ...
Your Corporate Bohemian Days Are Over: LiquidSpace Raises $3.6M
We first heard about LiquidSpace during SxSW, when they debuted their mobile app, a tool that helps anyone find a place to get some work done. They’ve now raised $3.6 million in their first round of funding, led by Shasta Ventures, with returning participation from FloodGate. The app, which matches on-the-go professionals with free and ...
Cloud2 Commission Out to Standardize Govt Clouds
With details emerging over the operation to bring down Osama bin Laden, the tech sector has gotten a boost of encouragement, simply knowing the American government required sophisticated technologies to collect and process a large amount of intelligence data to successfully pull of the raid on bin Laden’s compound. Yes, the military had a big win, thanks ...
Pupil: Where Photos Meet Q&A
When Color launched its mobile app, it was a red carpet event, lined with high profile investors and an all-star management team. The premise behind this promising app, which started out with more funding than Google, is to share photos on a local level. I balked at the app when I first tested it, noting ...
Retail Sees Huge Success in Mobile Ads: Millennial Media Report
Mobile advertising seems to still be in its infancy, but it’s a rapidly developing industry, with plenty of potential. No matter what business you’re in, mobile advertising is likely to affect your marketing capabilities in one way or another. The latest S.M.A.R.T. report from mobile ad network Millennial Media shows what sectors are seeing the ...
HP’s Cloud Plans Leaked on VP LinkedIn Profile
Hewlett-Packard’s on a new cloud path, as CEO Leo Apotheker has outlined these past few months, in the company’s shift from hardware to software. What he hasn’t given up yet are the details behind HP’s big cloud push, but his chief technologist has. Scott McClellan, who’s also the interim vice president of engineering for HP’s ...
HP Denies Rumor: XP Stays, 3PAR Still Cogent
After Hewlett-Packard bought 3PAR in a massive $2.4 billion deal last September, the company has now decided to replace its existing XP line with 3PAR products, or so a recent article on Storage Newsletter would have you believe. It’s a bold statement citing unnamed sources, and has big implications regarding HP’s strategy around storage and cloud ...
Jon Radoff on Gamification: From Terrorism to Android
When news broke of Osama bin Laden’s death Sunday night, I expected pundits to analyze the story from every which angle Monday morning, but one I didn’t see coming was the use of gamification by terrorist camps to develop more fervent followers. Nevertheless, an early string I saw developing around bin Laden influences was in the ...