Mellisa Tolentino
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Eversave the Latest Daily Deals Site to Get a Deal: Acquired for $30M
Today’s consumers are getting wiser, utilizing daily deals sites to purchase something they want or need. With daily deals sites like Goupon already having $644 million for their first quarter revenue of 2011, other daily sites are looking at strategies to meet even half of what Groupon has already achieved. Affinion Group, a global leader in ...
Anti-Piracy Campaigns: Are They Really Winning the Battle?
With hackers attacks multiplying as each day passes, companies are hard at work to block their attempts. With Google’s Anti-Piracy filter that works by filtering ‘piracy-related’ terms (minimizing the amount of data users are acquiring), piracy search has significantly dropped, proving the filter is serving its purpose. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that piracy has ...
Apple Extends a Hand to Businesses, Volume Apps Made Available
With the surge in demand for apps on iTunes, plus the price increase on many iOS apps, consumers may soon opt for other options. So Apple is kind of giving back to consumers as it launches Volume Apps for businesses. Apple already has volume app purchasing programs in place for educational institutions, but this is ...
It’s All in the Box: HTML5 Apps Planned, New Executives on Board
As the demand for personal cloud services rises, companies are developing more ways to accommodate consumers. Box (formerly known as Box.net), who has been pushing for its availability in Apple and Adroid-powered smartphones and tablets, is now expanding rapidly as it garners more and more users. They needed to move to a new quarter in ...
IBM SmartCloud Reaches Japan, Two New Data Centers in the Works
With the cloud era’s continued rise, the tech and industry behind it is already becoming big in Asia. IBM answers the demand by opening two new data centers in Japan; the SmartCloud Enterprise, which will be located in Makuhari, and the Lotus Live (location pending), which will allow users to easily move in the cloud, ...
Spotify in the U.S. Here’s How it Works
Spotify is finally landing in the U.S.! But with all the available music-streaming services(i.e. iTunes, Pandora, Napster, Amazon Cloud Player, Google Music etc.), do we really need another one? Of course! You can’t have too much of anything. Plus, the added competition gives you a wide range to choose from. So you may ask, what ...
Cisco Is Brewing Something Hot, Distracts Investors from Impending Layoffs
News of Cisco’s restructuring and their impending massive lay-off are making investors rethink their portfolios. With the sales of network switches and routers dropping, you’d think that the company is slowly going down the drain. But Cisco is still one to watch out for, as it is brewing something big and hot. First off, Cisco ...
Round 2: SAP VS. Oracle
With the lawsuit Oracle filed against SAP last year, the court ruled in favor of Oracle granting them a $1.3 billion to be paid to them by SAP for their illegal downloads of Oracle’s software. In retaliation, SAP is requesting the court for a re-trial to reduce the amount to somewhere between $28 million to ...
Dropbox Secure in High Valuation, but What About Your Files?
The personal cloud has been a hit with a rise in consumers as its products are made available on smartphones and tablets. It beats having to save all your files on a thumb drive, portable hard disk or copying your files to a DVD or CD, all of which could all be easily corrupted and ...
Evernote to Expand, Receives $50M Funding From Sequoia Capital
Evernote, the company that made famous the tag line ‘Remember Everything,’ announced a $50 million funding round spearheaded by Sequoia Capital together with Morgenthaler Ventures. Coming on the tail of a major mobile update, Evernote’s ready to take things to the next level. The purpose of the funding is to expand its reach from the ...