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Schmidt Steps Down as Google CEO, Larry Page Takes Over
We expected some interesting news from Google’s earnings report today, but we didn’t quite expect this: Eric Schmidt is stepping down as CEO, with co-founder Larry Page taking his spot. Google says it’s making the changes to “streamline decision making and create clearer lines of responsibility at the top of the company,” though it seems ...
Vchatter Raises Another Angel Round, CEO Will Bunker Discusses Aversion to VCs
vChatter’s been through a lot since the days of “competitor” ChatRoulette’s glory. The video chat app rescued us from the random (and quite frightening) chats on the oddly popular ChatRoulette, rising to prominence thanks to its take on privacy, and a penchant for developing an app that’s easy to use. After a successful Facebook app ...
Citrix VP “Re-Names” CES for the Consumer Enterprise
There’s an interesting relationship between things that occur in the enterprise world, and what gets handed down to the consumer level. I’ve always found it quiet fascinating, like the excitement I felt as a young child at the concept of having all my favorite movies accessible from my television, on-demand. Those tiny glimmers of the ...
Trust Points at Lunch.com Are Better than Yelpers
Lunch.com, the recommendations website that takes a deep look at your compatibility with others’ tastes, is launching a new feature called Trust Points, based on its proprietary Relevance Graph. It takes the source of a recommendation into consideration, heightening the relevance behind it. This builds on a core concept of Lunch’s website, but aims to ...
Appcelerator VP Discusses Aptana Acquisition, Goals Around Mobile Enterprise Apps
Appcelerator is already kicking things into high gear for 2011, coming off some great developments and product launches last year. The mobile and web app development platform has made an acquisition today, bringing another app program, Aptana, into the fold. According to sources, Appcelerator’s even gearing up for another acquisition in the near future. It’s ...
EMC Launches 41 New Products at Big Data Event
Big news from EMC today, as they launch a record-breaking 41 new products at their event, held this week in New York City (we’re there covering every angle, so stay tuned for continuous updates as the day goes on–in fact, check our photo flip book here). The new product line is EMC’s aim to remain ...
Catching Up with Clearspring – New Team, New Year, New Goals for the Social Web
A new year always brings new excitement around upcoming opportunities—twelve new months of blank canvas coupled with a fresh outlook could be a recipe for success (or at least a success-oriented attitude, and we all know that’s more than half the battle). For Hooman Radfar, 2011 couldn’t be looking any brighter. His company, Clearspring, has ...
Android Breaks a 2-Month Tie with Apple as Top OS in Millennial Media’s Ad Network
There’s been a tie between Android and iOS for two months straight on the recently funded Millennial Media’s mobile advertising network, and December finally named a winner—Android. For the first time, Google’s mobile OS surpassed Apple’s as the largest smartphone OS on the Millennial network, with an 8% increase month-over-month and 46% impression share. iOS ...
Xeround Claims Industry First with Multi-Geo MySQL Cloud
Cloud database company Xeround is officially announcing a new service, MySQL for the Cloud. It’s a multi-geographic cloud database, making your service available on Amazon in Europe and North America. This makes the matter of your server location a little less relevant, adding to Xeround’s agnostic approach to cloud services. What this does is enable ...
Skype Confirms Qik Acquisition, Estimated at $100M
It’s official: Skype is acquiring Qik, the video-broadcasting service. We heard rumors of the acquisition this morning, and Skype has just put out a release confirming the deal. The transaction is expected to close later on this month. While terms of the deal have not been disclosed, estimates put the acquisition around $100 million. From ...