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Cisco Shares’ Sharp Decline, Concern over Tech Industry Swells
Cisco shares dropped this morning, after a disappointing revenue forecast was released from the company last night. John Chambers, Cisco’s chief executive, heeded of uncertainty around the economy, outlaying revenue that missed Wall Street’s targets for the quarter. Cisco’s stock, in turn, was off by 7.3 percent at $21.99. Cisco’s stock tumble is weighing on ...
Rackspace Knows What Kind of Email Sender You Are: Funny Report
Rackspace may have a lot going on right now—it’s recently launched a massive cloud initiative called OpenStack, for one. To say that Rackspace is growing out its verticals is an understatement, especially as cloud tools for the enterprise gain in usability, security and budgeting appeal. While the OpenStack release helped boost Rackspace’s sales nearly 24% ...
Official Twitter Tweet Button, Good for Brands Like Amazon
Liking and tweeting. It seems like that’s all social media has boiled down to. For businesses, that could simplify digital marketing and user engagement, offering more direct ways to monetize brand interaction. An upcoming Tweet button from Twitter is the latest step towards this trend. The official Tweet button is expected to become available sometime ...
EMC’s Chuck Hollis: the Cloud Revolution has “No U Turns”
Clouds are fluffy, airy and quite cheery, more often than not. And as scary as storm clouds can be, they often bring an opportunity for watering new growth and clearing away debris. Perhaps that’s too literal of an analogy, but it’s fitting for what EMC is currently going through. Internally and from its clients, the ...
Zimbra Gets the Full VMware Treatment, Stacking the Cloud
Zimbra, the open source email hosting solution acquired by VMware earlier this year, is making its debut as part of the VMware family. It now has a virtual appliance offering designed for data center and hosting purposes. Combining vSphere with Zimbra, the result is a centralized portal for accessing the Zimbra Collaboration Suite Appliance. This ...
Cha-Ching, DataCap Acquisitions: Validating Cloud and Virtualization Trends
Quicken developer Intuit has acquired Cha-Ching, adding to its web-mobile toolkits provided to users. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. MidnightApps, the company behind the Cha-Ching Mac and iPhone apps, posted this on its website today: “The Cha-Ching team has merged with Intuit and will continue to provide you great design, useful features ...
Mark Hurd Gets Larry Ellison’s Support, HP Looks Bad Either Way
The tech industry is starting to weigh in on Mark Hurd’s resignation from Hewlett-Packard, with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison taking up Hurd’s cause. In the same breath, he lambasted HP for the way it’s handled the PR nightmare, effectively calling them wimps for cowering in fear instead of fighting to protect Hurd. From Ellison, “In ...
We Warned Google Not to Be Evil: South Korea Raids Offices
Do no evil is a phrase Google reiterates in its language, culture and brand. The company’s cheerful, primary colors and dedication to solving everything with an algorithm has been the face of Google from the very beginning. But a swelling movement against its net-neutrality statement this week has led many to question Google’s mantra. In ...
Godforsaken, Reactor Towns For Sale? TorrentReactor Will Buy [and Rename] You.
Google’s not the only tech company with a town named in its honor. A small town in Russia will soon bear the name TorrentReactor. That is, the town will be named after the torrent company that purchased the town. At least Google, Kansas wasn’t bought off for its new hometown pride. Right out of a ...
Breaking: Google, Verizon Jointly Announce Net Neutrality Proposal
Google and Verizon may not be ending net neutrality today, but they have released a statement outlining their proposal regarding web access and the freedoms (for consumers and enterprises) that lie within. The gist: Google and Verizon are supporters of net neutrality, but they’re working jointly to devise a way for the two companies to ...