Google Grows Up, Sells Bonds
In a sign of its growing financial maturity and clout, an item in today’s edition of Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) reports that Google (ticker GOOG) has successfully completed its first foray into the bond market with…
Announcing the “Summer of Startups” Participants
The Summer of Startups program is being organized for the second time in Finland. The program is brought to you by Aalto Entrepreneurship Society, and aimed at encouraging students and researchers to create their…
Yahoo – Alibaba Rift Widens
Recent posts have commented on the developing rift between Yahoo (ticker symbol YHOO) and Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce outfit in which Yahoo holds an approximate 40% stake, due to the spin off of Alibaba’s…
Increase in Smartphones Drive Mobile Ad Market by 17%, says Inmobi
A report release by Inmobi, the world's largest independent mobile ad network, details the findings of Mobile Insights Report: North American and Global Editions April 2011. Inmobi currently serve 35 billion monthly mobile advertising…
RIM Recalls Defective Playbooks
Off to a quite inauspicious start, Research In Motion Ltd. (ticker symbol RIMM) said it is recalling about 1,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets because of a software glitch a month after the device went on…
SAP Business ByDesign Gives More Bank for the Buck
SAP’s Business ByDesign has proven to be a key to success for Pinkberry Ventures, an LA-based frozen yogurt chain founded in 2005 and doubling its size year-to-year, says Pinkberry Business Systems Analyst Judson Wickham.…
HP Takes Milestone Leap with HANA, Financial Offering
Hewlett-Packard made a very significant announcement about two developments: it has launched a brand new financing offering, and its HP ProLiant DL980 G7 and HP ProLiant DL580 G7 systems are now among the first…
How Secure is the Personal Cloud? Apple, Dropbox #FAIL
Some pretty major security concerns have been circling the cloud these past couple of months, and now Dropbox also got caught up in the loop. Christopher Soghoian, a researcher at the Center for Applied…
SAPphire 2011: Tony Pagliarulo Talks Virtualization and Business Intelligence
By Kyt Dotson
As the Vice President of IT at EMC, Tony Pagliarulo sits in a very interesting place when it comes to choosing what software and enterprise production will be taking EMC into the future. John…
PopCap Favors Amazon over Google in Android Games Debut
Amazon’s got a good deal today with PopCap’s first two Android titles debuting on its Appstore. PopCap will bring its popular Chuzzle and Plants vs. Zombies to Amazon Appstore within the month, the first…