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Oracle Eyeing NetApp? Stock Spike Anticipates Acquisition.
Oracle had a lot to say during its OpenWorld conference last week, causing quite a stir in the industry. Some competitors and clients may have been dismayed by Oracle’s claims to operate as big a chunk of the enterprise cloud as possible, but many data storage companies saw a spike in shares thanks to Larry ...
AOL May Acquire 5min Video Network, Launching New Ads with Project Devil
AOL is reportedly buying online video network 5min. The estimates put the acquisition between $50 million and $65 million, which may not be the returns the video site would want after $13 million in funding over the past three years, but the price seems right for AOL, which is still in the process of re-branding ...
Mobile Users Like Touching Over Typing: Mobile Mix Report
Millennial Media has released the numbers from August’s Mobile Mix report, noting a 7% increase of Android OS shares for the U.S. mobile market. That keeps Android in the number 2 spot, though making significant gains towards Apple, which has 29% of the entire market share for Millennial Media’s mobile ad network—just 3% higher than ...
BlackBerry Gets an Accompanying Tablet, Amazon Kindle App Headed to the PlayBook
RIM demonstrated its upcoming tablet device, now known as the PlayBook, at the DevCon 2010 conference today. Anticipation around the tablet built up last week, with rising speculation around the specifics of RIM’s answer to the iPad and subsequent Android tablets. While RIM answered the major questions regarding the PlayBook, a number of the specs ...
G.O.P. Claiming Wins on the Social Media Battlefield. Tea Party Tactics at Work?
HeadCount.org released a report last week, noting the surge in popularity the G.O.P. is rounding up in social media networks. The battle over which party rules in the social media sector has been going on since the days of the presidential election. With the Democrats having used social media successfully as a marketing and outreach ...
Hitachi Fostering Partnerships in the Cloud, Unlike Oracle
Today is the Hitachi Information Forum, held in Santa Clara, CA. During the event, Hitachi announced a powerful new server product, as well as its goals around promoting a 3D take on growth in this sector: “up, out and deep.” One factor towards achieving deep integration for Hitachi’s cloud efforts is partnership, which is where ...
Ixtens Gets $4.6M to Grow Retailer Cloud Solutions
Ixtens, an SaaS provider for online retailers and media companies, has raised $4.6 million in funding, withGreycroft Partners and BV Capital leading the round. Retail consulting firm Marvin Traub Associates also participated in this round of funding. Founded in 2004, Ixtens launched as an ecommerce solutions provider, making its way through the market with a ...
Live Broadcast and Commentary from Hitachi Information Forum – Energy Efficient Storage Systems
The cloud is still a’rollin! We are covering it from every angle here at SiliconANGLE, where we’re broadcasting live from the Hitachi Information Forum in Santa Clara, CA. Watch the live broadcast of this morning’s keynote below, and on SiliconANGLE.tv. On the heels of VMworld 2010 and Oracle OpenWorld, where the Cube’s live broadcasts had ...
IBM Acquires Blade Networks, Bulking Up Without Making Enemies
IBM has made another storage acquisition, taking on BLADE for an undisclosed amount, though Barrons puts the estimate at $400 million. The blade server company has been a long-time partner of IBM, working together to develop products for IBM System x BladeCenters and other products. Based in Santa Clara, CA, Blade Network’s investors including Juniper ...
Mobile Developers Have High Hopes for Google TV, Android
We see a lot of reports on consumer data, comparing Apple to other players in the mobile market, but we don’t see many other perspectives on the matter. Appcelerator, the company behind the Titanium software for developing native mobile apps, has released a report offering some developer data on iOS, Android, Symbian and other mobile ...