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Big Data and Data Warehousing Fuels IT War
When Hewlett-Packard announced its $10.3 billion acquisition of software company Autonomy last month, it was already obvious where HP is heading. The Palo Alto, California-based company is dipping its toes in “big data” and “cloud computing” waters. CEO Leo Apotheker takes HP to directly compete with long-time rival Oracle Corp. Hearkening back to his two-decade ...
China: The Next Battleground for Mobile, Cloud
China has recently become the target for some major tech companies, as it becomes the next market for mobile products, especially smartphones and tablets. Apple already has four stores set up in various cities, with an additional fifth and sixth coming in Hong Kong and Shanghai, respectively. With sales in Greater China surging, Apple is quickly ...
HP’s PC, webOS Drama Just a Marketing Ploy?
A couple of weeks ago, Hewlett-Packard shocked the world when it announced the end of webOS, HP’s acquired mobile operating system from Palm and supposed weapon in the mobile war. Days afterward, it unleashed another wave of surprise with the TouchPad’s $99 sale. The sudden drop of TouchPad’s price was obviously a move by HP ...
Mobile Security Market to Reach $14.4B in 2017
More and more people are getting smartphones and tablets everyday. With mobile devices rapidly becoming the gadgets of choice for a lot of people, it also becomes a popular target for hackers, viruses and malware. And for this reason, the mobile security market is expected to be worth $14.4 billion by 2017 as demand for ...
VMworld 2011: Industry Giants Show Support, New Products
After last year’s successful event, VMware officially kicks-off VMworld 2011 today in Las Vegas, Nevada. For starters, you can view schedules of our live coverage here, a list of the few topics that will be covered here, and the five startups to watch out at this year’s VMworld here. At this year’s VMworld conference, EMC, ...
Google Pays $500M in Drug Deal: Bad Ads Never Pay
Looks like Google is going to shell out $500 million from their own pockets as they settle government charges for online pharmacy ads that were illegally shown on the search giant’s website. Google Inc. has reached a $500 million legal settlement with the U.S. Justice Department to avoid prosecution over allegations that it knowingly accepted ...
Brightcove Goes Public, Files $50 Million IPO Despite Net Loss
Last year, Kit Dotson reported a possible Brightcove IPO in the first half of this year. Well, close enough, as the online video platform company just filed this morning for a $50 million IPO. Brightcove Inc. today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ...
AT&T Sells $5B in Bonds, T-Mobile Acquisition Still Under Fire
Just months ago, AT&T announced its plan to acquire T-Mobile for a huge amount of $39 billion. And now, the second-largest U.S. wireless carrier is offering a three-part, $5 billion worth of bonds to help repay the company’s maturing debt for this year. AT&T sold $1.5 billion of 2.4 percent, five-year notes that yield 148 ...
Google-Motorola Deal: What It Means To Samsung, HTC, and Microsoft
Google surprised everyone this morning when the search giant announced its plan to acquire Motorola Mobility for a whopping $12.5 billion. With the acquisition, Google officially becomes a hardware manufacturer, a very competitive business that the company has little experience with, and will now directly compete with other Android-based smartphone makers like HTC and Samsung. ...
HTML5: Savior in the Uprising Against Apple In-App Rules
In an effort to avoid Apple’s new in-app purchase policy, Amazon announced on Wednesday the release of the Kindle Cloud Reader, an HTML5 web app that lets users access their Kindle library on the iPad and other supported devices. It allows users to read e-books that are stored on the cloud by using web browsers ...