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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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …