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One of the largest sharing network on the web, Clearspring, has revealed its top 10 shares for 2010. These kick off with the oil-covered Nahanni Johnstone and her daughter with 107K shares, Italian soccer player Daniele De Rossi’s fall with 110K, and …
The Data Leakage Roundup: Is Your Info Safe for 2011?
Honda and Mozilla are two more occurrances in a string of data breaches going down lately. Privacy, as Facebook knows all too well by now, is a very heated issue, and the same is now true for Honda. A Honda database containing over …
VMware and Intel SAP Platform: A Case Study
A recent case study gives us a closer look at some big name cloud computing vendors, including VMware and Intel. It’s available at Business Solutions details Nashville, Tennessee-based Southwestern /Great American’s utilization of WMware and Intel technology to set-up a platform for SAP …
iPad Losses Ground in Online Publication
According to a recent report released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, publishers distributing digital issues have seen a significant year-end drop in sales of iPad editions. Vanity Fair sold only 8,700 digital issues in Nov. compared to an average of over …
GigaSpaces Technologies Partners with Protogen, Taking the Cloud Down Under
Virtualized application platforms developer, GigaSpaces Technologies announced it has added the Australian enterprise management solutions provider Protogen Technologies as a partner. The two have teamed up to deliver Australian clients high-speed processing and scalability using the GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP). “Protogen and …
Android Market Apps Exceed the 200K Mark, Gains on iTunes App Store
According to third party Android Market tracker AndroLib, the Android Market has surpassed the handsome figure of 200,000 apps. Two months ago an official tweet by Google stated the Android Market had 100,000 apps, which means the number of application has doubled …
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 is expected to be disclosed next week. “Groupon …
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 $25 million in Aprimo’s cash, Teradata is also …
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 records. The intervention would allow Hurd to fight …
HP Lands $2.5BN Contract with NASA
Hewlett-Packard has landed a $2.5 billion, 10 year contract with NASA to manage the bulk of the space agency’s IT infrastructure including personal-computing hardware, standardized software, peripherals and, more. According to the Bloomberg article, this will be a powerful windfall for HP as …