Piston Cloud Teams up with Three DevOps Titans
Piston Cloud is one of the biggest supports of OpenStack out there. This is mainly because the company, which was founded by some of the people who’ve contributed the most to the project, based…
Bail Denied Again, Dotcom to Remain in Jail Until Extradition Hearing
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom appeared in court today in a hearing to appeal North Shore District Court’s earlier decision that denied him bail because he was considered as a flight risk. Unfortunately, the High…
Revolution Analytics Finds a New CEO
Revolution Analytics, a maker of analytics software powered by the R statistical programming language, announced a major staffing change at the very core of the company’s leadership. Dr. Norman Nie will continue to serve…
MoMo Wins Against Apple, Samsung Confident In EU Probe
Motorola Mobility won a second German patent ruling against Apple over their iCloud service. The Mannheim Regional Court found Apple had infringed a patent used to synchronize e-mail accounts. Presiding Judge Andreas Voss stated…
Social Mobile’s True Value for Super Bowl 2012? Business Intelligence
Neither New York Giants nor New England Patriots will be as big of a winner as the mobile and social sector for this year’s Super Bowl. According to a recent survey by research firm…
Nimble Storage Backs Up Blood Bank: Case Study
Nimble Storage is evidently receiving orders from a broader spectrum of organizations. One of its customers is Florida Blood Services, a not-for-profit blood bank that assists patients in critical care. The company said that…
What Twitter Sentiment Analysis Says Abut Super Bowl Quarterbacks Eli Manning and Tom Brady
What’s the Twitter sentiment for New York Giants Quarterback Eli Manning and New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady? IBM and the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism did sentiment analysis to determine…
A Tale of Two Letters: Facebook’s Vague Social Mission
By Tom Foremski
Facebook’s IPO documents reveals a far different culture to that of neighboring rival Google Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to prospective shareholders was incredibly vague about his company’s “social mission” and there was no announcement of…
Sony Suffers Massive Losses while Apple Lands in Third for Smartphone Manufacturing
Incoming Sony Corp. CEO Kazuo Hirai better buckle up: he is in for one bumpy ride, as the company reports that they are headed for a greater than expected $2.9 billion annual loss. In…
Facebook IPO Lessons
By Jeff Nolan
Like most people, I had the opportunity to review Facebook’s IPO filing yesterday and admit that, like Apple’s recent earnings announcement, this is pretty damn impressive. Here are a couple of lessons worth reinforcing:…