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Qik Raises $6M Amidst Skype Acquisition Rumors: CES 2011
Something’s afoot at the Qik offices this week, with rumblings of $6.3 million in funding, and a potential acquisition by video chat service Skype. The self-broadcasting app is keeping mum on everything for now, as is Skype. We’ve reached out for comments from both parties and have not heard anything back just yet. While the ...
Sauce Labs CTO Addresses Developer Needs around SaaS Revolution
The SaaS revolution has decidedly shifted the way we think about software, its use cases and its distribution. With software able to be developed quite readily, and specific in function and platform application, the cloud becomes a powerful force for the industry to flourish in the coming year. Salesforce’s recent launch of Dreamforce and Google’s ...
Scammers get in the Holiday Spirit Too: Safety Tips from Commtouch
Email marketing has been huge for years, and it’s not going anywhere, despite the increased social networking activity, marketing campaigns, or mobile shopping and search tools. It’s because no matter what, things always seem to circle back to email–it’s still our central station for the majority of our digital communications, be it with friends, family ...
CardStar CEO on Customer Loyalty, Local Ads and Why Groupon Was Right to Turn Down Google
My friend Trish and I have been going back and forth all month about our holiday shopping plans, our lack of time to head to stores, and the usefulness of online shopping. One thing that continually came up in conversation was Groupon, where unique gifts can be given to friends and family, presented as experiences, ...
IBM Real-time Compression: The Re-branding of Storwize
Last week we introduced “the SiliconANGLE” story format. It combines all the angles into one post–not just the news, but also the opinions, analysis, and overall impact to users. Our goal is to get all the angles covered around the most important stories around social science and computer science such as tech angles, business angles, ...
Etsy’s Tasty Test Brings a New Spin Search: Review
Whether you’re an Etsy member or an occasional browser, you’ll notice the sheer mass of products available on this crafter’s market site. Their database is enormous, full of thumbnails with handmade and vintage thumb warmers, log-shaped table lamps, garage sale finds and flower bouquets made of art deco brooches. I’ve made it a daily habit ...
TinierMe Builds Virtual Economy Around U.S. Anime Culture
Social gaming is one of those things that we think about when we’re bored, or we see a friend win a new badge on Facebook (so glad to see that trend died down on Twitter). But the market behind it is something that’s becoming more and more tangible as the web spans the globe, younger ...
Twitter’s $200M Christmas Present from Kleiner Perkins and Helpers
We already knew Twitter was a big deal, but now they’re throwing in our faces. The microblog has raised a whopping $200 million, giving Twitter a valuation of $3.7 billion. Yep. All those little tweets eventually amount up to quite a lot of money. The funding comes from Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, and some other ...
MCollective 1.0 boosts Puppet’s Performance with Real-time Capabilities
In Puppet Labs’ first major release since its acquisition of MCollective, we have some renewed open cloud initiatives emerging onto the scene. MCollective was already an incorporated feature for Puppet Labs’ products, and today’s release further integrates MCollective into the fold. MCollective version 1.0 is a command line interface (CLI) for asking real-time questions about ...
JiWire’s New Platform Scales Local Mobile Ads
JiWire has launched a new service called Compass, which is designed to enhance location-based advertising for mobile devices. The location-based mobile media company is designing a platform around geo-specific data, enabling brands to make their campaigns more relevant for audiences based on their exact location. What Compass’ platform offers is a way to “actionize” an ...