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Salesforce Hops on Latest Cloud Marketing Trend with Buddy Media Buy
According to sources, cloud CRM provider Salesforce.com has entered into an agreement to acquire social media services provider Buddy Media for $800 million. The company helps enterprise clients optimize their online presence on Facebook with the promise of achieving improvements in merchandising, support and other areas that tie with consumer interactions. The social networking firm ...
Panorama9 and Zendesk Couple IT with Support
Cloud IT firm Panorama9 is joining forces with customer support SaaS provider Zendesk to capitalize on an opportunity that the two have identified: that small to medium enterprises could use integration between these two sectors. Infrastructure-related problems often account for a sizable chunk of complaints, and the two companies are making the most of it ...
Dell’s New Copper ARM Server is Meant for Hyperscale
Google and Facebook are two of the largest web companies out there, and as such they discovered that they can be much more efficient with the way they manage their data centers. A very large portion of Facebook’s IT infrastructure, for instance, is accounted by minimalistic servers stripped of the ‘added value’ components, which results ...
Sprint Closing Nextel to Optimize its LTE Goals
Sprint put a date on the shutdown of its Nextel network, a merger that has been struggling financially for a very long time. The carrier said that it could go offline as early as June 2013. “Sprint will send written notices to business and government customers beginning June 1, 2012, regarding the iDEN Nextel National ...
What to Expect from Apple at WWDC 2012
Apple launched the landing page for WWDC this week – its annual developer conference that features workshops, various sessions and most importantly a keynote that is generally perceived as the main highlight of the event. This year Tim Cook will be filling Steve Jobs’ shoes for the first time, and will follow traditional by discussing ...
Facebook’s Latest Acquisition Could be Face.com
Word has it that Facebook has caught the scent of yet another high-value acquisition target. It is rumored that the social network plans to acquire facial recognition startup Face.com for a sum ranging between 80 and 100 million dollars. If these early speculations have some merit to them then Face is a relative bargain at ...
ProInsights Tops this Week’s Tablet Business Apps
This week Mint updated their app with new features from the site, and a LinkedIn visualization tool for Android called ProInsights made it to a top spot on the list. iPad Mint The company behind the popular personal finance service rolled out an upgrade to the iPad client that added a couple of features from ...
Could a Smartphone be the Way Up for Facebook?
A week and a half ago Facebook went public after many months of speculation, and managed to pass the $100 billion mark with its valuation. But reality soon caught up to the hype, and the share’s opening price of $38 very rapidly declined to the $32 it’s trading for today. The $100 billion question is ...
This Week in Big Data: EMC World, Data Streams and the Future Web in Zetabytes
This week EMC World 2012 grabbed a big portion of the headlines in big data, spilling into an unsurprisingly large number of segments that includes analytics. The whole armada of the storage giant’s partners and resellers attended EMC World this year, including Talend. The BI software maker announced that its flagship platform has been integrated ...
This Week in Cloud: EMC World, M&A and APIs
This week featured EMC World 2012, the storage giant’s annual conference that, as promised, managed to outdo last year with nothing short of 42 new product announcements, as well as other updates. Here’s a couple highlights: On Wednesday, EMC and open source automation firm Puppet Labs unveiled the result of their latest collaboration. Razor is ...
