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IBM Bets $440M on Retail Analytics, Acquires DemandTec
IBM announced it has acquired the San Mateo, California-based DemandTec in an all cash deal for $13.20 a share, or about $440 million. DemandTec offers analytics software-as-a-service for the retail industry, helping companies identify consumer trends and customer behavior. It’s insight that can be applied to optimize merchandising and marketing. Among the retailers that use ...
Autonomy Keeps Its Culture Under HP Rule
Autonomy’s Mike Lynch made some comments about the exact degree of the integration with Hewlett-Packard during the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit in London. He stressed that his company’s “high-speed culture” needs to remain the way it is. The British unstructured data analytics software maker merged with HP after a $10.3 billion acquisition initiated by former CEO ...
New Chip Industry Evolves Around High Density, Mobility
The chip industry is driven by a number of consumer and enterprise trends, which all center on the demand for higher performance for lower costs. Vendors are addressing this topic in both segments, and several milestone developments have been gaining the public’s attention lately. One of the main highlights of the past month is the ...
MapR Releases v1.2 of its Hadoop Distribution
MapR released the latest version of the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop, introducing a number of significance enhancements. “MapR Distribution Version 1.2 vastly expands the selection of developed and deployed applications,” said Jack Norris, vice president of marketing, MapR Technologies. “These applications will also benefit from MapR’s continued innovations providing high availability, dependability and increased performance.” ...
New Relic, Tier 3 for Enterprise Integration
Subscription-based app monitoring software provider New Relic has teamed with enterprise cloud platform provider Tier 3 to integrate New Relic Standard into Tier 3’s systems management dashboard and API. The partnership is meant to provide Tier 3 customers code-level visibility of mission-critical applications beyond the service the public cloud operator already offers. “Tier 3 and ...
RSA Keeps Phishing Attacks at Bay after Internal Breach
EMC security subsidiary RSA released some figures about RSA FraudAction, the company’s widely deployed anti-phishing service in recognition of a recent milestone. FraudAction helped block the 500,000th online attack launched against its customers, a number that adds up to $7.5 billion in fraud losses RSA says its software has saved. “This milestone translates into significant cost ...
Cisco Introduces CloudVerse, Its Unified Cloud Platform
Cisco has consolidated its data center, unified datacenter sharing and application portfolios under a new framework that is designed to solidify the company’s cloud vision from the outside. “Because of our position in the network, it’s presupposed that the strategy is there. But we wanted to publicly announce a strategy that’s backed by a belief ...
Broadcom Expands to Computer Accessories, Sees Growth in Mobile
Broadcom is working hard to catch up with Cisco and Juniper Networks, which own the vast majority of market share in the networking universe. The company is seeing steady growth, and its latest product is bound to attract some additional attention in the consumer space. The newly announced Broadcom BCM20730 65 nm low-power Human Interface ...
After SAP Takeover, SuccessFactors Makes a Buy of its Own
SuccessFactors, a provider of cloud-based HR management software for enterprises, announced it acquired Jobs2Web for $110 million. The news comes about four days after it revealed it is becoming a subsidiary of business software maker SAP, as a part of a much bigger $3.4 billion transaction. SuccessFactors said that the delay was a result of ...
Microsoft Sorts through Different Markets with New Initiatives
Software giant Microsoft is anything but limited to its core OS business, and is actively riding the current trends in enterprise IT and consumer tech to maintain the sizable market share it has built up across a number of industries. The company is preparing to launch Windows 8 sometime in the coming months, potentially as ...
