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The Daily Deal Affect: Can Groupon Sustain the Pressure Bubble?
Daily deal behemoth Groupon may be valued between $15BN and $25 in an initial public offering, but the downside of this inflated figure is felt across the entire tech scene, as more bubble talk is spurred, and hyperlocal marketing trends continue to build out Groupon’s own ecosystem, which is flush with big data and readily ...
The New York Times Hits Paywall, and iTunes
The New York Times is introducing digital subscriptions to the mix, seeking new-age distribution methods for its age-old publication. The newspaper also hopped aboard Steve Jobs’ iTunes subscription plan as its first major partner, which will cost 30 percent of its revenues through the platform. But we’ll get to that later. The Times’ 3 digital ...
Android Beats Apple in Speed (and Distribution)
A fresh study by web optimization company Blaze suggests that mobile browsing on Android is faster than on iOS devices – much faster, in fact, when it comes to loading web page. Blaze analyzed 45,000 page load times of Fortune 1000 companies’ websites by loading them multipale times throughout different days using mainly WiFi, and ...
SMB Growth & The Cloud: Hardware Purchases to Increase this Year
According to a new survey from American Express and CFO Research Services, the majority of CFOs at SMBs are looking for growth opportunities in the next two years. And hardware and cloud offerings were among the most prominent points of interest. Starting off with a different highlight, SMBs’ growth agendas are biting away chucks of ...
YouTube is Looking for Quality Content, and Will to Pay for it
YouTube has been trying to get over its low resolution piano-playing cats for quite a while, and now we’ve learned of a couple new strides the Google-owned network has done to better preserve its hold of the market. According to some rumors picked up by Time, sources say Google is looking to pay around $4,000 ...
Gluster Joins the OpenStack Club
Open-source is one of the biggest trends in IT, sweeping through the cloud as new standards and demands develop. Improved integration and cost-efficiency are huge benefits and proprietary offerings lack in comparison. That being said, Gluster just hopped on one of the biggest bandwagon in the segment. The open source storage virtualization software vendor today announced it ...
Intel Targets Micros Servers with Upcoming Sub-10-Watt Atom Server Chip
During a “microserver” briefing in San Francisco, Intel execs disclosed the company plans to launch a less than 10-watt version of its Atom processor in 2012, as well as a sub-15-watt Xeon powered by the Sandy Bridge architecture arriving later this year. Around the same time we can also look out for the Intel Micro ...
Radley + Co Bags Big Data Back-up with FalconStor
So far the tech industry did a pretty good job, given the cloud is taking over the world, and the most recent real-life example of big data tools put to use comes from Radley + Co. Today the London-based luxury retailer announced it has deployed FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) on its almost entirely virtualized ...
The Future Is Now: Ray Kurzweil Predictions Come to Life
This infographic lays out what futurist Ray Kurzweil had to say about computing as early as 20 years ago – and evidently, some of those things did come to life. Kurzweil believes the growth of computing power is not linear but exponential, which seems to correlate with the achievement of 107 calculations per second back ...
You’d Need 65M Tweets to Fill the Grand Canyon
This infographic by Rackspace puts the quantities of the data we use in a pretty entertaining real-world perspective, and demonstrates the main driver behind the booming personal cloud management trend fairly well. After Memolane timelined your social history, and DEMO Spring 2011 introduced half a dozen new personal cloud centralization products, you can start measuring ...
