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Mark Benioff Strengthens Salesforce Social Media Agenda at NYC Keynote
Marc Benioff, the CEO of enterprise SaaS provider Salesforce, has given his latest keynote today during the Cloudforce New York event, sponsored by his company. He focused on the social enterprise, a topic he has been advocating quite enthusiastically in the past few months (to the point Oracle even decided to pull the plug on his ...
Privacy Wins with Fresh Facebook-FTC Agreement
Social networking giant Facebook has reached a privacy settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, WSJ reported. The company has been under intense international scrutiny due to a rather lengthy list of blunders involving users’ personal data, and the FTC plans to make sure these kinds of incidents won’t happen again. “Facebook is obligated to ...
Michael Rizkalla Leaves HP Amidst webOS Confusion
Michael Rizkalla, the former senior director of webOS application development at HP, is the latest executive that left the company ever since employment in its consumer units became unstable. “The departure of Rizkalla highlights the bigger problem for HP,” writes GigaOm. ‘Even as it debates the future of webOS, the fact that it’s potentially on the ...
NexGen, Fusion-io for Upgraded SAN Offering
NexGen Storage has forged a partnership with flash-based hardware acceleration solutions maker Fusion-io to combine the latter’s technology with its own. The company said the ioMemory powered NexGen n5 Storage System, a hybrid mid-range SAN that’s designed to cut bottlenecks in virtualized environments, can cut overheads related to storage operating expenses by up to 90 ...
HP’s First Autonomy Products are a Smart Step Forward
Hewlett Packard revealed the first fruits of the controversial acquisition of unstructured analytics software maker Autonomy. The offerings provide an opportunity for commercial and governmental customers to sort through their big data, and has built up a very large sales channel (alongside an equally large market share, which were among the drivers behind the deal). ...
EU to Take Focused Aim at Facebook’s Brand of Privacy
The big data fuss seem to have trickled down to social media in a rather peculiar fashion. Social media networks, Facebook in particular, have faced a fair share of public scrutiny in the past year or so as users and legislators became wary about the way their data is collected, stored and used by advertisers ...
Viadeo’s Latest Buy Intensifies Battle with LinkedIn
Viadeo, the professional social network that competes against LinkedIn with about 40 million users, announced it has acquired Dutch startup Soocial for an amount equal to ‘multiple hundreds of thousands of euros,’ according to a report by a French media outlet. Soocial’s staff will now be working on fleshing out Viadeo’s platform, though the main ...
VMware On the “Right Side” of Virtualization
Paul Maritz, the head of EMC virtualization subsidiary VMware, is sticking behind the plan he’s been following, and realizing quite successfully, since leaving Microsoft to join the company. He’s naturally been among the most prominent advocates of the adoption of the new delivery model driven by cloud and virtualization adoption, and VMware is playing a ...
ARM Widens Appeal to Android Developers with New Toolkit
Chipmaker ARM, which provides a good portion of the chips that power smartphones today, is now offering free software to Android developers seeking to optimize their code for ARM processors. ARM Development Studio 5 (or DS-5) Community Edition makes the main features of the premium version available to individual developers and small smartups. The toolkit ...
This Week’s Best iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps: Syncplicity Tops the List
Syncplicity’s recent launch on Android and Amazon’s highly-anticipated Kindle Fire tops this week’s roundup. The file sync and management app introduces the bulk of the features available on iOS to Google’s rivaling operating system, as well as a number of different features of great use to business users. Android Syncplicity Syncplicity had some big ...
