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Mobile Big in Travel, and Marketers Got It (Mostly) Right
Mobile ad network operator Millennial Media released its latest SMART report, outlining advertising trends in the travel industry – one of the fastest growing verticals in this space. The travel industry is currently the third biggest spender on Millennial’s network behind telecommunications and finance, and is also holding on to the third spot in the ...
The Olympics: Spam and Malware All Bigger Threats Than Before
Cybersecurity is one additional topic that the architects of the 2012 London Olympics had to take into consideration, now that hackers are getting more and more creativity–and increasingly aggressive–with their attacks. The Olympic Games will attract a lot of eyeballs, but hackers have already started exploiting this international interest last month. Spammers jumped on the ...
Oracle Adds More Virtualization to Portfolio with Xsigo Buy
Database giant Oracle acquired Xsigio today for an undisclosed amount. The firm offers software-defined networking solutions that will be coupled with Oracle VM, according to a release that went out this morning. Xsigo’s product line-up covers both hardware and software, but it’s the latter category that Oracle is more interested in. The company’s technology visualizes ...
QLogic Disappoints with Q1 Results, Decline Reflects Market Trends
Data center networking equipment maker QLogic reported weaker than expected results for the first quarter of the 2013 fiscal year, falling short of analysts’ expectation and triggering a dramatic decline in the company’s stock. The vendor earned a net income of $18.4 million in the first quarter or 19 cents per share, 43 percent less ...
Yelp Tops This Week’s Tablet Business Apps Roundup
Location-based social search provider Yelp rolled out new versions of its iOS apps as well as the web-version, introducing new features to both iPhone and iPad users. The update puts a lot of emphasis on usability, with the goal of rounding out the service across all platforms. iPad Yelp Yelp lets you search businesses near ...
This Week in Big Data: Cloudera, Google Steal the Show
This week Cloudera and Google’s new cloud platform were the biggest attractions, not just for the blogosphere but also several vendors that decided to align themselves with one or the other to promote their big data plans. Hewlett-Packard said on Thursday that it signed an OEM agreement with Cloudera that will enable it to resell ...
33Across Launches Real-Time Personas
33Across collects social data, lots of it, and sells it to publishers. It operates a ‘social graph’ that tracks the activities of 1.25 billion internet users worldwide, and the sheer size of this data hoard is the main thing that earned the company a client portfolio of 375 Fortune 1000 marketers to the offering. This week the ...
This Week in the Cloud: Files, Alliances and $10M in Funding
A number of cloud updates cross the wired this week, and the ones coming from the direction of Google were among those that stood out the most. The search giant launched a partner program for vendors that want to get in on the Google Cloud Platform. That’s the name of several combined services including Cloud ...
Box Plays Nice with Microsoft, Comes to Windows Phone 7
Popular cloud storage service Box has not had many nice things to say about Microsoft or its popular Sharepoint platform. However, it seems Box likes the company enough to add support for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. The competition in the cloud storage space is enormous. If Box wants to come out on top, the company has to ...
Oracle Finally Adds the Elastic to Exalogic
This week Oracle announced the second generation of its cloud in a box, Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0. The newest release of the platform introduces several improvements, most notably, more virtualization capabilities. Oracle’s improvements in version two may make the platform to finally live up to the elastic in its name. Exalogic includes a combination ...
