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Heads and Stocks Roll over HP CEO Drama
HP is again in headlines, this time to announce the decision to oust CEO Leo Apotheker Or to go for major restructuring plans as Leo announced a month back? Though the news is yet to be confirmed by the company, but people closed to HP suggesting that former EBay CEO Meg Whitman, a HP director, ...
Dell Hopes to Score with Multi-Solutions to “Post-PC Era”
Dell Computer plans to play with a portfolio of solutions to sustain business growth and stability and to help customers need of the ever changing IT environment. The computer maker is unleashing a new program called PartnerDirect 2.0, which will provide a single point of support platform contact for partners. The program features a revised ...
Microsoft, Nokia Guide Symbian Developers to Windows Phone Platform
Microsoft and Nokia have just made their next step towards helping Symbian developers bring their applications to the Windows Phone platform. Microsoft and Nokia released a white paper for developers to explain what they need to know to transit from Symbian Qt to Windows Phone. Three jointly developed guides and tools are now available on ...
Food Search Engine GrubHub Raises $50M, Buys Dotmenu
Chicago-based startup GrubHub, the web and mobile search engine service that offers online ordering for delivery and pick up, has raised another $50 million in a Series E funding round. The company, which raised $11 million in venture capital earlier this year, announced today that it has acquired New York-based food delivery network Dotmenu, the ...
Google Hangouts get API, Days before Facebook f8
Google Plus released an API for developers last week, and now comes the launch of the Hangouts API for developers. Starting today, the API will be available for testing purposes, only for developers on the Google Plus platform. The new Hangouts API will enable developers to build real time applications on their own that use ...
For Data Center Expansion, Twitter Heads East
No doubt cloud-computing is one aspect of cutting down the overall cost of the IT infrastructure, and on other side there is a shift going on the data centers front as they are transforming the scalability and efficiency the way companies operate to become mass scale computing environment. Twitter, to focus on its ever increasing ...
Big Data Gleans Funding, Partnerships and New Products
It has been another busy week for big data providers. We have seen few interesting developments this week focused mainly on funding, acquisitions and new products launches, indicating a growing business inclination around big data services. Acquisitions, Partnerships and Funding This week started with the social analytics firm Apsalar’s $5 million round of funding from various investors ...
As Shares Slump by 5% Nintendo Bets on New Games to Revive the 3DS Sales
Nintendo’s 3DS handheld game device hasn’t taken investors by surprise and it has already been forced to slash prices to try to revive the sales but nothing seems to be working. The company shipped a total of 4.3 million 3DS’s worldwide as of the end of July, much lower than the company’s expectation. Nintendo sold ...
WeVideo Enters to the Cloud with Social Editing Platform
Cloud-based collaboration tools are a jewel in the crown for lots of enterprises, including start-up ventures. WeVideo, which is making its debut at the DEMO fall 2011 conference this week, is one such example, entering into the cloud with its Flash-based video editing tool. The WeVideo editing platform is designed for both individuals as well ...
Big Data Wrap Up: From Service Outages to VMworld 2011
Another week of big data, data analytics, BI news and reviews is behind us. Last week we saw a collection acquisitions, new products launch, partnership, news on fund raising from start-up data analytics and business intelligence providers. VMworld looks to the future of big data, virtualization Last week started with the EMC COO Pat Gelsinger ...