Court Order Lessens SAP’s Agony in Oracle Case
By Cherr Aira
In what could be one of the biggest legal battles in the software industry, SAP has seen a minute victory as the company was able to convince the court to lower the APR damages…
By Cherr Aira
Groupon to Raise Up to $950M in Funding
According to Bloomberg, coupon crowd-sourcing giant Groupon has been reported to fill out the paperwork to raise a maximum of $950 million in funding, potentially increasing its value to $7.8 billion. The exact amount…
Skype Outage Blamed on Windows Bug: UPDATE
A CIO update has just been posted on Skype’s blog, explaining the cause of their major downtime last week. The issue turned out to be a bug in the Windows version of Skype (version…
Teradata Acquires Aprimo for $525M
Atlanta-based data storage company Teradata had recently announced it will buy Aprimo, a web-based marketing software developer, for $525 million. The deal is expected to be closed during Q1, 2011. In addition to assuming…
Government 2.0: Federal IT Moves to the Cloud
Appearing in July before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement, EMC’s Nicklous Combs provided an overview on cloud computing in federal IT. A condensed…
MIT Sloan MBA Students Head To Silicon Valley
By Tom Foremski
They call themselves “Tech Treckkers” – the group of MIT Sloan MBA students making an annual trip to Silicon Valley to look for jobs and network with alumni. About 120 MIT Sloan students will…
PRwatch: No More Links
By Tom Foremski
I used to be puzzled about why PR people are so miserly about including links into their news releases and emails. Even those PR people that know that they should…often don’t. Yet links are…
AT&T Adds More WiFi Hotspots, Utilizes 4G Wireless Evolution
By Isha Suri
To serve its growing number of iPhone customers on New Year’s Eve, wireless giant AT&T set to expand its WiFi hotzones. It has recently added New York City’s Time Square in the list for its…
Mark Hurd Asks to Intervene in Shareholder’s Lawsuit
According to Bloomberg, HP’s former chairman and CEO Mark Hurd today asked Delaware judge Donald Parsons Jr. to allow him to intervene in a shareholder’s lawsuit and add his name to Hewlett-Packard’s books and…
CityVille is Facebook’s Next Killer App
Although FarmVille maintained its place at the top of the most played social games in 2010, Zynga competed itself and launched the most popular game of the moment, CityVille. According to AddData, CityVille currently…