There have been some rumors on the possibility of Rackspace being acquired. Rackspace CEO, Napier, stressed upon the fact that Rackspace plans to remain independent, but has not knocked the bottom out of the possibility to be bought. Such speculations, accompanied by the company’s earning call at the beginning of this year indicating a 50 ...

By responding to users’ and professionals’ requests, and addressing the migration of users to mobile environments, real estate websites Trulia and Zillow released another series of apps for the iPad and Android devices. Trulia is now offering apps for iPhone, iPad and Android devices, whereas Zillow covers BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone, Android and WP devices. With ...

Baidu, Google’s China competitor, announced that in May it will close down Youa, its online e-commerce store, and relocate them to its new e-commerce site at Rakuten China and Yaodian100.com. Baidu underlined the fact that contrary to others’ opinions, the company will not stop e-commerce activities, but expand them. “This should not be seen as ...

A study undertaken by AFCOM, titled The State of the Data Center, reveals that cloud computing has increased in popularity among data center managers. The survey gathered information from 358 data center managers out of which over 36.6 percent have already adopted cloud computing technology and 35.1 percent are seriously considering it. The same study ...

The earthquake in the Japanese archipelago not only affected the human inhabitants of Japan, but also the business environment at a global level. The technology sector is particular is now facing, and will continue to face, hardships due to Japan’s leader position in the chip-making sector, flash memory and more. Earlier this month, on the ...

By the end of July, Salesforce will have finalized the acquisition of Radian6 for approximately $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock, net of cash acquired. Radian6 monitors social media platforms for various customers, from Kodak, General Electrci to PepsiCo, Dell and many other alike, helping them establish relationship with customers via social ...

After Kodak dug up gold mines in filing suits on patent infringements against mobile companies and sucking royalties worth millions of dollars from LG, Samsung and so on, the trend is now taking off.  Nokia has now filed a second suit on patent infringement against Apple “in virtually all of its products [i.e. phones, portable ...

In the digital publishing industry populated by established brands such as Vook, Inkling, Kiwa media, EE, Aptara and not only, Publification is making its way up. Publification is an Estonian start-up, part of the Indilo Wireless group, offering an HTML5 based platform for authors and publishing houses to quickly and cost-effectively publish multimedia rich eBooks ...

There is no such thing as online privacy. No matter how many cookies we delete, no matter how numerous and diverse our passwords are, no matter how many privacy options we tick on social sites, there will always be advanced and accurate methods of profiling and tracking. There is also the growing popularity of location-based ...

Google got off to a good start this year by launching the Honeycomb 3.0 OS, which was a month later available on Motorola’s Android-powered Xoom tablet.  But the hype around Honeycomb 3.0 is dying down, as Google is delaying the release of the Honeycomb OS’s  ‘open source code’ to a later, unspecified date. The reason ...