The Big Data event attended by the Silicon Angle team announced a number of new products from  EMC, the giant storage provider.  The theme of the event was all about  ‘Breaking Records.’ Among these, it is worth mentioning the VNXe Turnkey Storage and Newtwork Infrastructure Solution, aimed at small and medium sized businesses that will ...

Scribd, the “YouTube” for documents, has just closed a $13 million third round of funding, under the leadership of MLC Investments of Australia and SVB Capital and previous investors such as Redpoint Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Kinsey Hills Group. In the last four years Scribd raised about $25.8 million in total funding. It’s not ...

In 2009, the Italian Federation of Newspaper Publishers filed a complaint to the Italian antitrust authority against Google News members, accusing them of removing articles from Google’s main search engine. Such proceedings would greatly impact revenues from newspaper advertising, although Google News would provide a link from the originating sites, which are typically accessed by ...

Apple has contacted European publications to inform that they will cease offering free access to iPad editions due to financial matters. Rumors say the company wants more profits from subscriptions. “By offering free access to print subscribers, newspapers could avoid charging for access through the iPad, and can avoid paying Apple a 30% cut of ...

This past week has been a pretty active one for the mobile sector, with the most prominent story being the highly anticipated partnership between Verizon Wireless and Apple.  It is to have a considerable impact on the sales of mobile phones across the U.S., and will be a game changer for Verizon, Apple and especially ...

We all know that Android has more security vulnerabilities when compared to Apple.  The OS is open, ripe for malware apps, and sometimes plagued with a more lenient approval process for Market apps.  On the occasion of Google’s announcement of its support for the H.264 video codec in Chrome, Steve Chang, Trend Micro founder and ...

Nielsen’s recent research reveals changes in consumer behavior in the U.S., offering some insight to these shopping trends we’re seeing applied to mobile marketing, social media and other tools for businesses.  More specifically, the US consumer prefers small, but more frequent shopping trip to long ones, and buys less with each trip made. The main ...

IBM will be challenging Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter by introducing Watson, the  super-computer. The competition between the three players will be broadcast in February over three nights. The prizes are $1 million, $300,000 and respectively $200,000, half of which Jennings and Rutter said would be donated to charities. IBM officials stated they ...

Trulia has announced a partnership with ListGlobally, where Trulia users will benefit by having the ability to search for homes outside the U.S. Trulia, a popular resource for home buyers, sellers and renters, has plans for launching the international search feature in the first half of 2011 as a response to increased consumer interest in ...

After spending no less than eleven years at AOL, Greg Cypes will join the AddThis product development team at Clearspring.  Greg is welcomed within Clearspring by CEO Hooman Radfar: “Greg pioneered next-generation communication tools that have enabled people to better connect and share via the social networks they love like Twitter and Facebook through the ...