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Indiegogo opens the door to Enterprise Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding site Indiegogo yesterday announced a new service aimed at helping big businesses to gather funds for their Research & Development projects, validate new products and offer cash prizes to people who can propose new ideas for them to work on. The new service is called “Enterprise Crowdfunding”, and will see the site expand beyond ...
Yahoo! investors agitate for a change of leadership
The so-called activist investment firm Starboard Value LP is agitating for a complete overhaul of the management at Yahoo! Inc., claiming that the venerable Web giant is leaking cash with no recovery in sight. The investors penned the following letter to Yahoo’s board of directors, expressing their extreme frustration at the last year’s financial performance. ...
Microsoft’s about to bid farewell to IE 8, 9 and 10
Microsoft will drop support for several iterations of its Internet Explorer browser from Tuesday next week. On January 12, Microsoft will introduce a new policy on browser support, which means that most older version of IE will not be updated anymore. It’s pretty complicated though, because the versions of IE which are no longer supported ...
Microsoft & Rambus team up to build quantum computing memory
Semiconductor and IP technology vendor Rambus Inc. has revealed it’s collaborating with Microsoft Research to explore future memory requirements for quantum computing. The company announced the new partnership just before the holidays, saying that its “promising but largely untested” technologies are slowly gaining traction as existing computer architectures run out of steam. Rambus said that ...
Snapchat said to be developing an API for advertising
Snapchat Inc. is reported to be holding discussions with various advertising agencies about building an API for its popular messenger app. If it did so, it would be the first time Snapchat has moved into ad tech, according to Digiday, which first broke the story. It adds that Snapchat’s API could be ready for testing ...
Bidders bide their time as Dell’s Perot Systems goes up for auction
Dell Inc.’s announcement that it wants to auction off Perot Systems, its healthcare IT consulting business, has led to a frenzy of speculation regarding prospective buyers, with at least four companies said to be interested. Dell let it be known late last year it was willing to hand over the keys to Perot Systems if buyers could match its ...
Diane Greene took $148.6M from Google and donated it all to charity
Google’s new parent company Alphabet Inc. revealed today that it paid a whopping $380.2 million to acquire Bebop Technologies, the startup most recently led by its new cloud boss and ex-Vmware Inc. founder Diane Greene. Out of that deal, Green raked in a cool $148.6 million in the form of 200,729 Alphabet shares valued at ...
Intel snaps up drone maker Ascending Technologies
Intel just can’t get enough of drones lately. Following on from last year’s $60 million investment in Hong Kong-based Yuneec International, the chip maker now says it’s going to acquire Germany’s Ascending Technologies GmbH for an undisclosed sum. Ascending Technologies builds a wide variety of drones that come programmed with special “auto-pilot” software and algorithms ...
Microsoft claims Windows 10 growth is faster than any previous version
Microsoft reckons Windows 10 is getting off to a flying start, and is now installed on upwards of 200 million devices. The boast comes just after Internet analytics firm Net Applications posted data showing Windows 10 is now the fourth-most popular operating system in the world, but is fast catching up with Windows 7, Windows ...
Sizing up the public cloud: Microsoft bets on the hybrid horse
One of a series of articles analyzing the strategies the largest public cloud vendors are using to court enterprise customers. Previous installments looked at Amazon Web Services, IBM, Google and Oracle. While many cite Amazon Web Services’ early start as one of the main reasons behind its emergence as the leader in the public cloud, the fact that ...