Martin Homlish is HP’s New CMO
Hewlett-Packard is making an executive-level change with the appointment of Martin Homlish as new vice president and CEO to replace Michael Medenhall who left the position back in January. HP didn’t disclose much of…
Amazon Cloud Down for Maintenance, Foursquare and Reddit Experience Issues
News just crossed the wire that some of Amazon’s AWS services including the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Relational Database service are experiencing some technical difficulties. Details of these difficulties and their cause…
Yahoo’s Search Ship Is Sinking
Any way you slice it, Yahoo is seeing a strong decline in its search revenues in the second quarter, following the same path of decreasing revenues since 2008. Back then, Yahoo’s net search revenues…
AT&T Still Alive and Well: Wireless Growth, Verizon iPhone, T-Mobile
Just like Intel, VMware and China Mobile, AT&T also had its earnings call within the last 24 hours. However, in addition to the financial information the call also provided some insight to a couple…
How Social Media Protect Brands Too
To ensure than consumers are engaging only with the authentic brand and not the fake account, social media monitoring tool Brand Vigil makes sure that companies are able to identify phony pages and abuses…
New Color Competitor in Town: EventJot
Still a newly launched service, Color is a photo-sharing app that enables users to share media only with contacts located within a given distance from them. While the concept is a very simple one,…
HP’s Converged Movement Gains Another Follower
Opus Interactive, provider of managed hosting, dedicated virtual and standard servers, and data storage, is deploying the new HP Converged Infrastructure technology to improve data center efficiency and facilitate delivery of technology services to…
Why the Era of Big Data is About More Than Just Targeted Ads
A recent Bloomberg BusinessWeek feature maintains that we are in the midst of yet another tech bubble. This time, writes BusinessWeek’s Ashlee Vance, “the hype centers on more precise ways to sell.” Following on…
Mobile Competition Intensifying – In China, Too.
Competition in the mobile space is growing as more and more devices and services debut. This is also true on a global scale, and perhaps China in particular. China Mobile Ltd., the world’s largest…
eBay Gets More Local with WHERE
By Kyt Dotson
Online auction company eBay has just announced its deal to acquire location-based service WHERE. Details on the deal are currently under wraps, but it will certainly fill out their portfolio. The deal is expected…