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Vyatta 6.1 Launch Today, Expanding Virtualization Security in a Big Way
Open networking and vitrualization company Vyatta has launched Version 6.1 today, the latest in its open network OS upgrades. It’s an important milestone for the Cisco alternative, as it is a compilation of several factors and successes that help to establish the company in its cloud-computing services for the enterprise. With Vyatta Version 6.1, there’s ...
Viralheat Democratizes Media Data Analytics with Social Trends
Social media analytics tool Viralheat is launching a new product today: Social Trends bring fresh visualization features to Viralheat’s steadily expanding toolkit. The startup, which launched in July 2009, provides affordable social media analytics from across multiple portals, from Twitter to YouTube, or your own social app. Viralheat’s goal to bring this data to the ...
Twitter Steals News Corp. Executive to Head Up Revenues
Twitter’s latest move towards building up its business–the company has reportedly poached Adam Bain from News Corp., bringing him on to head up the revenue for Twitter. Reporting directly to COO Dick Costolo, Bain’s role as President, Revenue will involve working closely with the development of Twitter’s ad network. From TechCrunch, “Bain’s organization has been ...
HP Outbids Dell, Offers 3PAR $1.6 Billion
Just a week after Dell announced its plans to acquire data-storage company 3PAR, rival Hewlett-Packard has made a competing bid. HP is offering $24 per share, 33 percent higher than Dell’s bid, giving 3PAR a valuation of $1.6 billion. The bidding war has caused 3PAR’s stock to rise 37% in premarket trading this morning. The ...
Federated Media Acquires TextDigger, Musgrove Named Chief Scientist
Federated Media has announced its acquisition of the core technology behind TextDigger, a search engine startup. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Launched as a project at a CNET incubator, TextDigger’s profiling technology platform is used to add semantics indexing on existing search engines. TextDigger later expanded and went on to raise over ...
StockTwits Investor Relations, New Design and Brand Marketing Tools
StockTwits, the Twitter-centric microblogging site for investors, has unveiled a new site design today, with a few new perks to boot. One in particular could be helpful for brands and investors; the new StockTwits IR, still in beta, makes communication amongst these special interest users even more streamlined. StockTwits IR, which stands for Investor Relations, ...
Inkling: New Funding and Platform for iPad Digital Textbooks
Inkling has announced its funding and platform launch today, introducing some much needed new concepts to the digital publishing and education industries. The startup creates interactive apps for higher learning, developing digital textbooks for use on the iPad. Inkling has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from its Series A round, led by Sequoia Capital ...
Nokia Acquires Motally: Mobile Analytics on the Rise
Nokia has announced its plans to acquire Motally, the U.S.-based mobile analytics service. The financial details of the deal were not revealed. Motally provides mobile browsing and in-app tracking and reporting, designed for use by publishers and developers to help them optimize their mobile applications. Finnish manufacturer Nokia intends to incorporate Motally’s tracking tools into ...
Gather Round Facebook Places: The First 48 Hours.
Yes, Facebook Places is here. You can geo-locate your updates, tag your friends as you would in photos, and state your preferences about the business you’re currently at. Your favorite social network has now contextualized the idea of "putting everyone on full blast" with the Where dimension fully layered into the equation. Now that the ...
RIM Needs Mobile Ad Network, But Millennial Media Stands Ground
More push back from RIM as the mobile wars continue to heat up. Reports of the BlackBerry maker having entered discussions with Millennial Media for an acquisition of the mobile ad network have highlighted RIM’s continued struggle to keep up with industry trends, though RIM seems hesitant to pay for what it needs. Talks between ...