Nvidia Bets On New Wireless Technology
In a bid to compete with such rivals as Intel (ticker INTC) and Qualcomm (ticker QCOM) in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, Nvidia (ticker NVDA) has announced the acquisition of Icera…
EMC World 2011: Successful Kickoff and Keynotes from Tucci
By Cherr Aira
With a working theme “Cloud Meets Big Data”, the first day of EMC World 2011 was a hit. The four-day customer and partner event kicked off yesterday in Las Vegas where some 10,000 attendees…
Google Joins Online Music Crowd
Google (ticker GOOG) is announcing today a new online music service which seems intended to compete with similar services provided by Amazon (ticker AMZN) and Apple (ticker AAPL), escalating the battle to create the…
HP Still Targets Consumers with New Product Line
Electronics giant Hewlett-Packard had quite a weekend, considering it launched multiple new business laptops which seem to be sharing a border with more consumer-sided devices. This is a part of the company’s effort to…
Nordic Game Indie Night Spurs Interest and Development
The curtain is raised and the spotlight is focused on the eight games to be showcased for the Swedish-based games festival, Nordic Games Indie Night. The feature and showdown will be on May 10,…
Akamai Taps Riverbed to Make Hybrid Cloud Seamless
When it comes to the progression of cloud computing, speed is a major factor in these days of immediacy. Akamai’s well aware of culture’s growing demand in this arena, providing cloud optimization services that…
EMC’s Sustainability in the Cloud: On Going Green, New Data Centers and Energy Efficiency
By Cherr Aira
Sustainability in the cloud has always been one of EMC’s biggest quests. The company’s relentless efforts to pioneer products and services, strategic acquisitions and big partnerships that differentiate them from the likes of IBM…
Clearspring’s $20M Data Dive: Fresh Funds, Big Plans
Clearspring’s been steadily expanding on its foundation for well over a year now, so it wasn’t surprising to hear they’d raised $20 million in a Series D round of funding. Led by IVP, with…
Your Corporate Bohemian Days Are Over: LiquidSpace Raises $3.6M
We first heard about LiquidSpace during SxSW, when they debuted their mobile app, a tool that helps anyone find a place to get some work done. They’ve now raised $3.6 million in their first…
Microsoft to Buy Skype for $7 Billion?
There is a growing rumor that Microsoft is in final stages of negotiations to acquire Skype. Paul O’Flaherty and I discussed the rumor in today’s Daily Brief but at that point it was still…