Cloud Services M&A: Condensation Forming
There has been a spate of acquisitions in the cloud space, as companies are trying to fill holes in their service offerings. Recently we’ve seen NaviSite snatched up by Time Warner, CenturyLink buy Savvis,…
Anonymous Leaks 90,000 E-mails from Booz Allen Hamilton, as Promised
Hacktivist group Anonymous tweeted Monday morning that they will be releasing “shiny things” uncovered from attacking an intelligence community. They unloaded the first batch via Pirate Bay which the hacktivist group is calling #MilitaryMeltdownMonday.…
Evernote to Expand, Receives $50M Funding From Sequoia Capital
Evernote, the company that made famous the tag line ‘Remember Everything,’ announced a $50 million funding round spearheaded by Sequoia Capital together with Morgenthaler Ventures. Coming on the tail of a major mobile update,…
Google Android Market Gets Movies and Books, Looking More Like iTunes
Google’s Android Market, which was released last year, has suffered much criticism with their security and design, and to add insult to injury, the unbearable comparison to Apple’s iTunes Store. So with much research,…
The Prize of Tracking Social Sharing: Better Ads, Bigger Data
By Maria Pila
After the acquisition of Plixi, a photo sharing app acquired by Lockerz earlier this year, the social media and marketing rewards company adds to its portfolio with the acquisition of social sharing platform AddToAny.…
Why Users don’t Like Branded Apps…Umm, They’re Branded.
By Robert Manto
Mobile apps have become very popular in these times of technological advancement. In just a few years, mobile apps continue at a rapid rate, on the production and adoption sides. Good thing for consumers,…
Convergence Pushes Services Up the Stack
Stack solutions like VCE’s Vblock, NetApp’s FlexPod and HP’s Converged Infrastructure look to bust the traditional silos of IT and create pools of resources. While solutions can be shipped as a single SKU (see…
Patent Trolling in Silicon Valley: 12 Companies Sued by IV
Intellectual Ventures, a $5 billion patent investment firm lead by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, is looking at some of the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley in a effort to further monetize its…
LiveChat for iPad, Easier Customer Chat Support
LiveChat is a real-time, live-chat software tool for ecommerce sales and support, which helps people talk to website visitors. They’ve taken their service mobile, launching LiveChat for the iPad. The new application gives support to website…
The Services Angle on VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Suite
Three years ago, VMware CEO Paul Maritz announced his intention to build what he called a “Software Mainframe.” What did that mean? It meant that VMware engineers (2,000 of them) were going to build…