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Social Bookmarks Pay Off in Big Data Markets
Free social bookmarking service AddToAny just turned a profit – right before it’s having its 5th anniversary this week (same age as Twitter!). The AddToAny button is one of the most-used widgets on the web – and the most distributed one from a bootstrapped start-up. It handles over a billion widget loads and millions of ...
HP Gets into your Pocket: Prepaid Cards to Stimulate Consumer Buys
The financial industry will be going through a transformation as online payment solutions and technologies such as NFC are being deployed. However, the wallet and credit card won’t disappear anytime soon – at least, that’s what HP seems to think. Today the world’s biggest computer manufacturer announced the HP Prepaid Card Services suit, a payment ...
Deloitte Names Top SaaS Trends to Watch
As the cloud finds new business opportunities in services and products, it’s important to watch out for trends developing in the industry, from an IT management standpoint, the executive level, and beyond. With 2011 nearing Q2, it’s a good time to reflect on initial trends, as well as areas of growing potential. Consultation firm Deloitte ...
Cisco Declares First Dividend, Addresses Japan and Gets Nostalgic
We’ve had a couple of Cisco updates, as well as an interesting look into its history – which doesn’t seem to fit into the drastic fall its shares experienced in the past year or so. This 35 percent drop is the motive which drove the (still) no. 1 networking giant to announce its first cash ...
Another Fundraiser Emerges to Aid Japan: AudioDraft
The Japanese disaster had rightfully gotten a great deal of attention across the web, and many individuals and companies decided to get involved, lending a helping hand through direct donations. The latest one is AudioDraft, a music crowdsourcing platform. Originally launched as an academic project at Finland’s Aalto University, and founded as a company only ...
AT&T Out to Save Obama’s Broadband Hopes with T-Mobile Buy
AT&T is buying T-Mobile USA, according to an announcement released late on Sunday. This merger, if approved by the Federal Communications Commission, will bring the no. 2 and no. 4 operators in the U.S to form the largest operator, racing past Verizon with a customer base of 130 million. The $39 billion deal, which will ...
EMC Security Division Hacked. Where’s That Leave the Private Cloud?
EMC’s security division, RSA got hacked. According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by the company, the introducers managed to get pass through “a popular and widely used anti-hacking technology” and actually extract certain data from RSA’s systems. The breach was limited, but there is still a very risk RSA customers including major banks ...
Cloud.com Pushes Open-Source with CloudStack 2.2 and Upcoming Event
Jumping straight into business, Cloud.com recently released the latest version of its open source multi-tenant IaaS platform, CloudStack 2.2, which features over 100 new features. Among these is hypervisor support for VMware vSphere and CloudBridge, which enables the integration of CloudStack-based applications with other clouds including EC2, Scalable Storage Cloud (S3) and OpenStack APIs. It ...
Cloud Round-up: New Products, More Scale
This week has brought with it quite a bit of updates from every corner of the cloud, including a few new products. For example, Couchbase launched its first product a couple days ago. Couchbase is a NoSQL company formed after the merger of CouchOne and Membase, who launched Couchbase Server earlier this week. The Couchbase Server ...
iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps: the Best of the Week
This week’s tablet business apps round-up comes with an impressive list of business-oriented apps, both for the iPad and Android tablets. As tablets gain more and more traction among consumers, the technology also gains momentum in the (virtual) office, and the following apps demonstrate just how big this segment has become. Android WaveSecure for Tablet ...
