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Yahoo’s seeking some additional expansion through apps. What else? The company’s Yahoo Connected TV is now available on several new models Toshiba HDTV’s, including the WX800 Cinema Series(R) 3D LED. Viewers will have an interactive app market for accessing movie and television …
IBM Chief Blasts HP, Company to Acquire OpenPages to Bolster Analytics
More disdain for Hewlett-Packard and the way it handled the 3PAR bidding war, as well as the Mark Hurd fiasco–this time coming from IBM Chief Executive Samuel J. Palmisano. In a Wall Street Journal interview, Palmisano made more than a few candid …
Super Rewards Launches In-Game Offers, Looks to Live-Games in the Future
Super Rewards is back at it, with a new in-game overlay. It brings new Offer options for developers to play around with, presenting more opportunities to catch gamers at various points throughout their game play. At these points, users have direct payment …
The New Twitter Looks Great, But Won’t Kill Tweetdeck
Twitter fans can lay today’s speculation to rest; the new site has arrived. It looks a lot cleaner, much like Tweetdeck’s Twitter client, and finally makes it easier to navigate the main website. With a simplistic and stylized interface, you can finally …
Chase Bank Site Down All Day, Disappointing 16.5 Million Customers
Update: The Chase bank website is back up and running, at least since I checked earlier this morning. As the Associated Press reports, however, the site is still having outage issues. I still have all my money. How about you? Anyone else …
Juniper Networks and Altor Say Enterprise Needs Dual Security in Virtualization: Real-Time Survey at VMworld 2010
Juniper Networks and Altor teamed up at VMworld 2010 to conduct a real-time survey of customer and enterprise needs, looking at their own current offerings to determine the best course for their future pipeline. The two cloud companies, which have an established …
Zillow Names Spencer Rascoff as New CEO: Another Hat to Wear.
Zillow’s brought in a new CEO, Sepncer Rascoff, to head up the real estate website. Rich Barton, Zillow co-founder, has been the company’s CEO since its launch in 2005, though he will remain actively involved as executive chairman of the board of …
Intel Tags $30M for US Startups, Including Joyent’s PaaS Cloud Offering
Intel is on a spending spree, dedicating $30 million to four U.S. investments. In an aim to “foster entrepreneurship,” Intel’s global investment organization has set its sights on the states. The four companies receiving funding include Adaptive Computing, Ciranova, Joyent and Nexant. …
Primal Pages Targets Publishers, Automates Community Engagement
Primal is expanding its automated search and content-building tools at DEMO Fall 2010, with an addition to Primal Pages. The new tool is for publishers, and offers a way for them to engage their audience without doing all the work around searching, …
Xeround Launches MySQL for the Cloud. It’s All About Scale.
Xeround has launched its private beta for MySQL for the Cloud, a service for managing your cloud ecosystem. Xeround provides a cloud environment that’s flexible and scalable, designed for running applications in SaaS, IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and PaaS. Geared towards service providers, ISVs …