Online Video Gets Richer With YouTube-Paramount Deal and More
More and more companies are spicing things up in the online video streaming sector. Now you can watch your favorite movies or TV shows online when you want, not when they want you to.…
Tintri Takes On Cloning, VMware Integration
Tintri, the company that makes purpose-built storage appliances for virtual machines, rolled out an update to its flagship Tintri VMstore platform that adds several enhancements on top of the existing functionality. One of the new…
Forrester: IT Needs to Make Way for the Social Business Analyst
A new Forrester survey of IT pros suggests that there’s a clean split in the social enterprise space between “haves” and “have-nots” – 49 percent of respondents say that 2012 will see investments in…
After SEC Probe, Groupon Sued by Bitter Shareholder
Just yesterday we reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting a probe on Groupon, the daily deals company that recently went public, due to their last minute revisions on their financial report. The…
ViaWest Raises $65M for Hosted Services, Plans Future Growth
Privately held data center operator ViaWest received $65 million in debt financing to be used in ‘future growth initiatives,’ which presumably means a continuation of the company’s past and current efforts to expand. The…
Facebook Slaps Yahoo With Countersuit, Patent Wars Continue
In retaliation to Yahoo! Inc. filing a lawsuit for infringing 10-20 patents in March, social networking giant Facebook Inc. filed a countersuit alleging Yahoo is guilty of patent infringement as well. Facebook argues that…
Your Guide to Choosing a Business Intelligence Tool
By Cherr Aira
Business intelligence is fast becoming a significant contribution towards advertising strategies, crunching internal and external data to turn it into a propeller of the company’s marketing engine. As a branch of the big data market, BI…
Nimble CRM Adds App to Chrome Web Store
Nimble is looking to revolutionize CRM at a scale that was previously associated, for the most part, with more legacy offerings. The company is essentially modernizing relations management, adding in factors from recent trends…
Sony Executive Shakeup Continues with Kunimasa Suzuki as New Mobile President and CEO
Today’s mobile roundup features Sony’s new leader, Apple’s new patents, and a new quad-band LTE USB modem. Meet Sony’s new President and CEO Sony Mobile Communications announced that effective May 16, 2012, Bert Nordberg…
From Services to Software, Still Waiting for Big Data Leadership from IBM
At Strata Conference last month, my Wikibon colleagues and I had the pleasure of chatting with Anjul Bhambri, Vice President of Big Data in IBM’s software group. While we had a pleasant discussion, I…