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Skype IPO Seeks $100M to Survive Telecom Evolution
Looks like Skype is preparing for a public offering–the Internet-phone company has filed plans for an IPO. It’s estimated that Skype will sell up to $100 million of American depositary shares in its initial public offering on NASDAQ. According to the filing, Skype’s revenues reached $406 million in the first six months of 2010, netting ...
New Mobile Enterprise Report: Listening to Your Apps, Websites and Customers
What a ride for mobile enterprise. This year we’ve seen the bar risen tenfold, with Android making a big stand against Apple’s iOS. Let’s not forget about the iPad and the imminent tablet wars. With two contending platforms and a dizzying array of mobile devices, metrics and analytics around their respective app markets is rising ...
Google, Slide and Zynga vs. Facebook: the Race for Social Mobile Gaming
Now that Google’s acquisition of Slide has been confirmed, it’s obvious that Google is getting more aggressive with its delve into social gaming. Slide has taken advantage of blooming platforms like Facebook’s to carve a social gaming niche — a story not entirely different from Zynga, Google’s other recent social gaming acquisition. What we find ...
Google Should Consider Apple’s “Try Before You Buy” Section
The Apple iTunes App store has added a “Try Before You Buy” section for mobile apps. Great in concept, and needed for several reasons: The App Store still needs work. Searching and navigating it still sends you running for a third-party directory. The new preview section encourages more sales by prefacing the “buy” invite with ...
Microsoft-Salesforce Deal is Just Lip Service
Microsoft and Salesforce may have made public amends over their epic patent battles, but that doesn’t mean the war is over. Microsoft is still seeking out ways to push cloud services to clients, while Salesforce’s stance against the software giant has taken a retaliatory course. So is their out-of-court agreement a sign of a peaceful ...
How Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Blow Could Affect Cloud Enterprise
Update: Google has released a statement denying a deal with Verizon, or any other telecom for that matter. The company says it remains a supporter of net neutrality, according to The Guardian. Net neutrality faces yet another compromise, this time by way of a deal between Google and Verizon. The two companies have reportedly entered ...
RIM Chief Agrees With Us, UAE Ban is Political Contradiction
The stand-off between BlackBerry maker RIM and the United Arab Emirates received a passionate reply from the company’s head. co-CEO Michael Lazaridis isn’t too happy about it. The Wall Street Journal quotes: “This is about the Internet,” Mr. Lazaridis said. “Everything on the Internet is encrypted. This is not a BlackBerry-only issue. If they can’t ...
Clearspring Turns AddThis Analytics Into an Audience Platform: Micro-Targeting
When Clearspring closed its Launchpad last year and acquired AddThis, I wondered at the type of recommendations the company would eventually be able to provide. We’re beginning to find out now, with Clearspring’s revelation of its Audience Platform. The new exchange presents micro-segments for large audiences.With it, publishers can snap up packaged data sets for ...
So Long, Google Wave. See You On the Other Side.
It’s time to say goodbye to Google Wave. The experimental project from Google was fun while it lasted, but didn’t show enough adoption for Google to keep it going. I know many of you will be saddened by the news; real-time trends have been popping up everywhere, from search to microblogging–but the uptake has not ...
Intel Settles with FTC, Shifting Gears for Mobile Tablet Distribution
The Federal Trade Commission has settled with Intel for the chip-maker to revise some of its business practices. The result is a shift in dominance and methods around the competitive nature of the chip manufacturing and marketing business. First brought forward in December of last year, the FTC’s suit outlined several areas Intel could no ...