Five Reasons to Shut Down Your Community, Today
It’s time. Give it up. Your heart was in the right place, but you didn’t do anything to support your effort.You thought that building the community was enough. You never hired anyone to manage…
Lithium Technologies is on a Roll, Raises $53m and Plans Move to San Francisco
By Tom Foremski
Lithium Technologies is on a roll – the Emeryville based company recently raised $53.4 million and has a full order book for its enterprise social media platform. Thursday evening Lithium Technologies held a dinner…
IGT Buys Double Down in Massive Social Gaming Deal
International Game Technology (IGT) has acquired Double Down Interactive, a creator of social games that’s most commonly known for the DoubleDown Casino title. The Facebook-based app was one of the top four games on…
Splunk’s Big Data IPO “Imminent,” Insiders Say
Splunk, a maker of machine data aggregation and analysis software for the enterprise, is going public. Citing anonymous “people similar with the matter, Bloomberg reported that Splunk hired Morgan Stanley to lead an upcoming…
MakerBot ‘Replicator’ 3D Printer at CES 2012 Can Make Anything (In Two Colors)
By Kyt Dotson
Earlier this week at the Consumer Electronics Show—and unfortunately not a Star Trek convention—3D printer manufacturer, MakerBot, unveiled its newest amazing product dubbed the “MakerBot Replicator.” With two versions capable of making objects about…
This Week in Cloud: Storage, PaaS and Smart TVs
This week has been particularly interesting thanks to a handful of very notable updates from all across the industry. The first news flash came from Dell’s direction, which launched its first dedupe offering powered…
Evolution of Agile: From Development Teams to the Whole Organization
By Klint Finley
Forrester has a new report titled Navigate The Future Of Agile And Lean. It looks at the progress from the early days of the agile methodology as a tool improving development team productivity to…
Fusion-io Hires New Product Development Head
Storage startup Fusion-io hired IT veteran Woody Hutsell as its new director of product management. Hutsell comes to Fusion-io from data storage firm Vion, where he served as an application acceleration practice director and…
iPhone 4S China Launch Stirs Angry Mob of Apple Fans
Apple is well known for creating so much hype in their products that people go ballistic. Apple fans even go to the extremes of falling in-line for 12 hours or more just so they…
Users Split over Facebook “Listen With” Feature
Last year Facebook kicked up their offerings up a few notches, especially after Google+ launched. It’s not like they’re just about to watch someone else take the spotlight away from them, like they did…