Renren Goes Public Before Facebook & Co.
Renren, a Facebook homologue in China with over 160 million users, has announced that it plans an initial public offering in the United States. The IPO is expected to go as high as $500…
Gilt Groupe Raises a Fashionable $80-100M Amidst Rumors of Waif Thin Business Model
Flash-sale company Gilt Groupe is raising $80-$100 million from private-market investors in a deal which may increase the company’s valuation to as much as $1 billion. The company’s revenue is expected to double this…
Constant Contact and WeReward Turn Big Data Into Customer Loyalty
Aiming to garner more customers, Constant Contact, the trusted marketing advisor to more than 400,000 small organizations worldwide, and WeReward, the leading mobile loyalty and incentive platform, today announced a collaboration to help merchants…
It’s Official: Windows Phone 7 has its First Update
Word is this morning that some people were starting to see an update being made available for their windows Phone 7 handsets, and just now it has become official: Windows Phone 7 has its…
Generating Crowds: Astroturfing Propaganda Software and Social Media Collide
By Kyt Dotson
There’s a lot of research to be done on crowdsourcing—the method of turning minor human actions into large, complex activities or processes; but what about the opposite, certainly marketing could make use of the…
Cloud Giants Bring Comfort to Patients and Healthcare Providers
In order to painstakingly monitor the condition of patients, SAP AG announced the launch of SAP Collaborative-Care Management application at the HIMSS11 in Orlando, Florida. It keeps care patients, healthcare providers and their families…
Online Travel Services Get Big Data Facelifts, Starting with Zagat
Online travel and review sites are getting more and more social and data-driven, and Zagat is no exception. The restaurant review site is re-launching, now offering users more free content with a social overhaul.…
Fraud Forces Out Alibaba Execs, Yahoo Still Confident in its Board
By Cherr Aira
Alibaba’s CEO and COO took immediate resignations today. The fire that forced Chief Executive David Wei and Chief Operating Officer Elvis Lee out of the company– fraudulent activities that they were not even involved as…
Android’s Got Charisma, Still Building Momentum
The upcoming Honeycomb-powered Motorola Xoom stirred quite a bit of buzz, being the first device powered by Google’s tablet-dedicated OS, but all that publicity is causing a bit of back-lash this morning, and it’s…
Microsoft, T-Mobile’s New Hybrid Cloud Solution, Shell Tests Efficiency
Shell will soon be benefitting from two of the world’s best information technology and service provider, Microsoft and T-Systems, as the two giants will build out a new hybrid cloud solution that’s going to…