Travel Sites Coalition Blocks Google from Purchasing ITA
Leading provider of flight data, ITA Software Inc. is currently on a deal with Google, with the latter showing interest in purchasing the former for $700 million.
Juniper Networks Security Suite Goes Mobile, Liberating Phones for Business
By Kyt Dotson
Today’s businesses must balance the security of their communication networks against usability by their employees. Many large scale business internal communications use mobile devices—usually Blackberries these days—and that opens up a host of security…
Facebook Exec Mike Murphy Leaving Social Networking Giant
Mike Murphy, VP of global sales at Facebook has made a departure from the social-networking giant public, with words truly worthy of a rock star (and online ad sales veteran) declaring that countless nights…
IBM’s Accumulated $10 Billion Stock Buyback
Tech giant IBM Corp. announced Tuesday that its board authorized a $10 billion worth of stock buybacks, a notable 6% of their existing shares.
Effects of BitTorrent on a Starbucks-AT&T hotspot
By George Ou
I recently discussed the phenomenon of a single application accidentally taking down a T-Mobile cell and how BitTorrent would have an even worse effect. I wanted to test this with BitTorrent, but doing so…
BitDefender Launches Safego Beta App on Facebook
Bitdefender, an anti-virus provider, today launches Safego. It serves as a Facebook application that's designed to warn user of security and privacy threats brought about by malicious wall posts, messages and links.
Gowalla Goes Deep into Local Recommendations with 3 New Features
Social networking website Gowalla today announced three additional services to further exploration at the local level. These features are City Pages, Verified Businesses and Venues and the Stamp Calendar.
Gilt City Acquires Bergine, a Fashionable First
Chicago-based Gilt City does another major step in expanding verticals with the acquisition of San Francisco-based luxury deal site Bergine.com
VeriFone to Integrate Mobile Payments with PayPal
Within PayPal X Innovate 2010 it has been announced that VeriFone’s PAYware Mobile card encryption will fusion with PayPal payment. The following steps upon the informed integration will be the VeriFone’s efforts and sustainability…
Cloudera Open Cloud Wins Big: $25M in Funds
The providing company of Apache Hadoop software and services took part, among its current investors (Accel Partners and Greylock Partners) in a $25 Million funding in Series C. The funding operation was managed my…