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SiliconANGLE at SxSWi: PostPost and Yolink
SxSWi is one of the biggest events in tech held now in Austin, Texas, and SiliconANGLE is out in the field doing a whole lot of interviewing. Our Editor in Chief Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins sat down with developer and author of the book Personal MBA Josh Kaufman a couple days back, and now personal cloud ...
Couchbase Announces First Cloud Product, Introduces Board of Advisors
Couchbase, a NoSQL company formed after the merger of CouchOne and Membase, had a couple of big announcements today. The first is the launch of its first product, the open source Couchbase Server. Couchbase Server is based on the world’s most deployed NoSQL solution, Apache CouchDB, which is the core database behind Canonical’s Ubuntu One ...
SAP and IBM Partnership, Suit Up to Bring Down Oracle
SAP announced it has integrated its in-memory High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) with IBM’s DB2 database, which gives the two companies’ rivalry against Oracle and its Exadata platform a serious boost from the (near) real-time big data analytics view. “The integration is enabled by SAP’s Sybase Replication Server, which SAP gained through the acquisition of that ...
SxSW Interview: John Kaufman, Author of the Personal MBA
SiliconANGLE’s Editor-in-Chief Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins interviewed Josh Kaufman at SxSWi 2011, author of the book Personal MBA aimed at helping entrepreneurs get the knowledge they need to start a business without getting an MBA. Kaufman, a programmer by nature, became an assistant brand manager at Procter & Gamble by the time he graduated from college, ...
Social Media, Big Data Supplementing Japanese Infrastructure after Tsunami Hit
After an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit northern Japan today, impacting an area stretching all the way to the East Coast, social media is playing just as big of a role – if not a more significant one – than it did during the Egyptian turbulence. All the major carriers in Japan, including NTT ...
iPad 2 Hits Stores, Motorola Retaliates
The iPad 2 made its debut earlier this month, and now it’s officially available in stores – Apple’s online store, at least. Hitting retail stores in just a few hours at 5 p.m. PT, the tablet ranges from the $499 for the 16 GB,Wi-Fi-only version to $829 for the iPad 2 with 64 GB and ...
Localized Mobile Ads for Mother’s Day, Royal Wedding Top Target Tactics: Report
Top mobile ad network Millennial Media, released its latest SMART Lite report for the month of January, as a part of its newly introduced Millennial Monthly newsletter. The report reveals some interesting statistics about where mobile advertising stands today, shedding light on all the major trends going on in mobile right now. Millennial reports its ...
SXSW Will Get you Tweeting: Umagram and Connect.me
The SXSW 2011 conference is kicking off, and that means lots and lots, and lots and lots (and lots) of parties to attend, people to meet, companies to watch, and parties to attend. One you should definitely check out is the second annual Tech Cocktail event, which will feature more than 30 early stage start-ups ...
The Browser War Takes on Mobile, Mozilla Launches FF4
Opera Software, the developer behind the Opera computer and mobile browsers, is establishing a joint venture company with Chinese mobile phone distributor Telling Telecom. The joint venture will combine Opera’s browser technology with local content, operations and Telling’s distribution network to develop a browser specifically designed for the Chinese market. “Through an investment over three ...
NetApp Buys Engenio for $480M, Shareholders Not Satisfied
NetApp will pay $480 million in an all-cash deal to acquire the external memory division of LSI Corp., Engenio. The deal will close within roughly 60 days, and marks NetApp’s expansion into several new markets it claims will be worth $5 billion by 2014. As Bloomberg reports, “NetApp said the purchase will help it build networks ...
