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Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy will Involve Retail, Price Slashing
Microsoft is looking at a number of ways to maintain and grow its share of the personal cloud, one option being a second attempt to establish a retail front similar to that of Apple. The software giant set up a shop in San Francisco 11 years ago, a small-scale experiment that got axed a couple ...
Larry Page Appearance During Q2 Earnings Call Restores Faith in Google, Shares Soar
Google had its earnings call today for the second quarter of the 2011 fiscal year, and it surpassed Wall Street expectations. The search giant reported $6.92 billion in net revenue with on-GAAP earnings per share of $8.74. That exceeds analysts’ predictions of $6.54 billion in revenue and $7.87 earnings per share. Their net income was ...
Voicemail Hacking Scanadal Leads to U.K Title Shutdown
News Corp. has been struck with a wave of legal allegations ever since it became public that employees of News International, itsU.S.newspaper unit, are suspected to have carried out multiple voicemail hackings of public figures and even murder victims. Specifically, members of the News of the World tabloid staff were accused of these wrongdoings. Today, ...
User Privacy may be Fading Away as Facial Recognition Evolves
Facial recognition has been a growing trend in social media for quite some time, and now dozens law enforcement agencies in several states are finding a better use for the technology. As of September hundreds of police officers will be carrying a device developed by BI2 Technologies that attaches itself to their iPhone and will let them ...
Cisco CEO: “You will see us leaner and more focused.”
Speaking at a Las Vegas company gathering that was attended by 15,000 of Cisco’s customers, partners and others, chief executive John Chambers reflected on the company’s internal policies. The board-based decision-making system he set forth about four years ago greatly slowed down Cisco, subsequently contributing to the decline the networking giant has seen in past ...
EA Loses Investor Faith with PopCap Games Deal
Game maker Electronic Arts is expanding its business into new platforms via its latest acquisition, PopCap Games. The latter is responsible for hits including Plants Vs. Zombies, and had a price tag to match. EA will pay $650 million in cash, $100 million worth of its shares and a maximum of another $550 million if ...
Patent Trolling in Silicon Valley: 12 Companies Sued by IV
Intellectual Ventures, a $5 billion patent investment firm lead by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, is looking at some of the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley in a effort to further monetize its portfolio of over 35,000 patents. Following a lawsuit spree dating back to last December, the firm has started a second wave ...
CloudFlare Raises $20M for Cloud Acceleration, Security Offerings
CloudFlare, a security startup that has its roots in open source spam protection network Project Honey Pot, just raised $20 million in a Series B funding round, led by New Enterprise Associates. Existing investors Pelion Venture Partners and Venrock Associates also participated in the round. CloudFlare will be using the capital to increase its staff ...
Google+ Answers All Your Questions
Google’s latest effort at a social network since the failure of Google Buzz is really picking up, thanks to the attention it’s getting in its first few weeks of existence. Analyst Paul Allen used census data about surnames to put together an estimate of about 4.5 million users, which means Google+ is growing rapidly; too ...
Apple Addresses Privacy with iOS 5 Beta 3
Apple promises to launch iOS 5 to its users by this fall, and it’s making sure developers are ready. After all, one of the biggest issues with rival Android’s Honeycomb OS was that there were very little apps supporting the platform at launch, something Apple wants to avoid. Beta 2 introduced a WiFi sync feature, ...
