Groupon Beats Expectations With “Unneeded” IPO Cash
Groupon, one of the top daily deals sites, has been yo-yoing this year as to whether or not it was time for their initial public offering. They were set for an IPO over the…
Sony Predicts Over $1.1 Billion Full-Year Net Loss After Numerous Setbacks
By Kyt Dotson
The year of 2011 has been extremely harsh for Sony and it’s been peppered with cataclysm and catastrophe. Starting with Japan’s earthquake and the resulting the tsunami that shut down production at 10 factories…
TMI: Are You Tweeting Yourself At Risk? [Infographic]
Are you one of those people who are so fond telling the world what you’re doing? Like announcing where you’re at or if you’re leaving the house or if you’re watching TV at home,…
Will Citrix Buy EnStratus?
Now, I can’t let Ben Kepes and Krishnan Subramanian have all the fun. These two well-respected bloggers and #Clouderati members are both saying that EnStratus is looking like a Citrix acquisition target. It appears…
Hadoop World 2011 NYC – Live In Depth Coverage SiliconANGLE.tv #theCUBE
By John Furrier
SiliconANGLE.com and Wikibon.org are back for year 2 at Hadoop World 2011 to provide in-depth live video coverage of sold out Hadoop World 2011. SiliconANGLE.com and Wikibon.org present theCUBE – the live HD studio…
QLogic and Juniper Bring 10G Ethernet to QFabric
Networking gear vendor QLogic said today its 8200 Series 10GbE converged network adapters have been certified by Juniper Networks to meet the standards of QFabric environments. QFabric is a family of products and services…
Karmasphere’s Hadoop Tools Now Available Via Amazon Web Services
By Klint Finley
Karmasphere announced that its Apache Hadoop tools Karmasphere Analyst and Karmasphere Studio will be available via Amazon Web Services Elastic Map Reduce as a pay-as-you-go service. Users will still need to download the tools,…
Asia a Favorable Investment Destination for Kleiner Perkins and Others
By Isha Suri
Venture Capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is showing its love for the Dragon country as it’s raising a second $250 million fund to invest in Chinese companies. The firm has done its filing…
If Steve Jobs were Looking for Funding Today He Wouldn’t Get it – He’s a Marketeer
By Tom Foremski
I watched the PBS documentary on Steve Jobs last night,“One last thing” and it was well done, mixing a fair bit of the good, the bad, and the ugly about the life of the…
Picking the Low Hanging Fruit and Considering SaaS in a Larger Context
Obviously the place to start with any cloud migration is with the “low hanging fruit”. And you should start with one or two services as early as possible to gain experience with SaaS. This…