Google beats Oracle in long-running Java lawsuit
By Robert Hof
A jury today handed Google a victory in a $9 billion lawsuit by Oracle America Inc. over the Java programming language.
By Robert Hof
Eye institute blindsided by data breach thanks to third-party hack
Don’t turn a blind eye to security, otherwise the next data breach could blindside you. The Southeast Eye Institute, PA sees that clearly know, following an incident in which an unauthorized attacker accessed patient…
Reddit ditches Imgur and hosts its own images
By Eric David
The company behind self-hating web community Reddit has decided to abandon its long-standing partnership with image hosting site Imgur in favor of offering its own image upload service. “We’re super excited to begin rolling…
It’s not your grandfather’s ecosystem: SAP drives innovation with new partnerships | #SAPPHIRENOW
The SAP ecosystem is changing. While the company still maintains the traditional types of partners who resell SAP products, there is a global ecosystem that includes partners who are either strategic service providers or…
Microsoft and Facebook join forces to lay giant internet cable across the Atlantic
By Eric David
Facebook may be hard at work creating the future of internet connectivity with its high-altitude drones and lasers, but sometimes nothing beats laying a gigantic cable across the bottom of the ocean. That is exactly what…
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In sign of improving IPO market, Twilio files to go public
Two weeks after the technology industry’s second public offering of the year, a third is already in the pipe. Twilio Inc. this morning reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it’s planning…
Transforming candy into customer insights through long-term partnerships | #SAPPHIRENOW
Hershey is a brand that we can all embrace, but chocolate and theme parks are only part of the business. So when the company’s CEO articulates in public that he considers Hershey to be…
Lattice Engines says it knows when prospects are ready to buy
By Paul Gillin
Predictive marketing software provider Lattice Engines Inc. is bidding for the hearts and minds of business-to-business marketers with a new platform that predicts whether prospects are ready to buy and when. It then routes that…
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Intel Capital calls off $1BN portfolio sale
Since joining the venture capital game in 1991, Intel has backed more than 1,400 startups across 57 countries and an even bigger number of segments, from software-as-a-service to healthcare automation. And according to a…
Better late than never: LinkedIn alerts users of data breach
While news of the LinkedIn data breach, which put over 167 million accounts at risk, has been spreading around the Internet, LinkedIn itself was rather quiet on the news until recently. Today the social…