Maria Deutscher
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China’s e-commerce market has been seeing significant growth lately, which became the motive behind Walmart’s and 5 other investors’ $500 million investment in the e-commerce consumer electronics seller, 360buy.com. The site has a similar business model to that of Amazon, as it’s a …
The FalconStor Ride: a Year in Review
Data protection solutions provider FalconStor has seen a lot of ups and downs in the past 6 months, ever since it first launched the FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) SAN Accelerator for VMware View(TM). The SSD-enhanced storage solution was launched back when …
2011 Mobile Growth, Android in the Highlight
A recent Fortune report has added to an array of highly optimistic 2011 mobile and smartphone growth predictions. Amid the items: handset prices are expected to plummet, Asia anticipates see immense mobile growth in the coming year, and Android is in the …
DailySteals the latest to Add Facebook Deals Integration
DailySteals.com, a daily deal Groupon competitor has announced it has introduced Facebook integration, taping the huge market around Facebook coupon seekers and social-networking. In addition to potentially gaining a huge amount of additional exposure and multiple free promotional channels, the 9,000-times-liked Daily …
SiliconANGLE Personal Cloud Round Up
The personal cloud is taking over and is playing a bigger and more sophisticated part in the tech consumer’s life. Recent evidence of this is the release of Dropbox 1.0, which we covered here; the cross-platform cloud-based file sharing manager is gaining momentum …
Google Signs its Biggest Real Estate Deal Yet
Google has officially closed its biggest real-estate deal yet, as the search giant has bought the 111 8th Avenue building in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood for an undisclosed sum. The deal is reportedly the largest single asset sale of its kind this year, …
HP-ex Mark Hurd Continues to Fight Accusation
As the Guardian covered here, Hewlett-Packard-ex Mark Hurd continues to fight against the public release of an 8-page letter, which allegedly accuses him of sexual harassment concerning his relationship with former actress and HP contractor Jodie Fisher. “Lawyers representing HP shareholders have …
The Rise of the Groupon Wannabes
After Groupon declined Google’s $6 billion bid, the search giant, who’s evidently very eager to tap into the online coupon world, is on the hunt to acquire an alternative, as the New York Times reported. “Although LivingSocial, which also generates significant cash, …
HP’s webOS PalmPad Tablet Expected to Debut at CES
According to eMarketer, certain spec sheets were obtained from an unnamed source by Fox News, which detail that Hewlett-Packard is planning to launch a tablet running on a new version of Palm’s WebOS mobile operating system. Three models of this tablet, the …
VMware Reveals Vblock data, 2011 Plans for Hypervisor
VMware executives have revealed some crucial information on both Vblock’s roll in the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition and their plans for Hypervisor in 2010, which centers on security. The first one to be highlighted is the information disclosed by Acadia [VCE] …