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DailyFeats Invigorates Job Seeker with Monster Partnership
Social marketing site DailyFeats had partnered up with online job board Monster. DailyFeats allows users to redeem points they collect for certain personal development feats they accomplish (divided across the body, mind, home and community), choose among roughly 130,000 local rewards and connect with other people who have similar interests. According to the company, this ...
Cloud Phishing Targets Google Docs, HomeAway
The cloud is making life easier for us all, but it’s also making it easier for phishing attacks to take place, according to a recent Commtouch report. Cybercriminals are apparently utilizing cloud-based form services to reduce the amount of ‘work’ they need to handle in context to fake or hijacked online forms. “With this technique, ...
Apotheker Goes after the Software Market, Gets HP’s Soul Back
Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker finally brought the news everybody’s been looking to hear: HP is going after the software market. HP’s core business has always been very much focused on hardware, but even though the company is currently the largest PC maker in the world, its growth rate has been steadily declining. More and more competition ...
HTML5 Broods Browser Wars as IE9 Launch Looms
The browser war rages on. In light of recent HTML5 developments and growing adoption of mobile browsing, almost all major browsers (except Firefox) released a big update in roughly the same timeframe. The first one to highlight is Microsoft – All Things Digital reports Microsoft announced it will officially launch IE9 at an Austin event ...
Akamai Thinks IPv6, Stock Down 22%
We received an e-mail today shedding some light about Akamai’s intentions around the IPv6 switch, which takes place in June. After 40 years and 2 billion internet users, we’ve run through the 40 billion IPv4 addresses, and now the whole web is getting ready for the switch to IPv6 and 3.4 × 1038 new addresses ...
Social Media Revival Gains Some New Executive Leadership
A couple of notable social media companies appointed new execs this week, marking some important developments as several industry companies fine tune their product and leadership lineup – women’s social shopping site ThisNext and Ashton Kutcher’s social marketing firm Katalyst. ThisNext announced MySpace CEO Mike Jones joined its board of directors. “Over the past year, ...
JoliCloud Changes Name, and Approach
JoliCloud OS, the cloud based operating system which came way before Chrome OS, is getting an update and a new name. Version 1.2 is due to release later this week, and will be known as Joli OS. It will bring with it a number of new features, as well as enhanced cross-platform support. Starting out ...
Animoto Upgrades, YouTube Expands, and Thomson Reuters Joins the Club
Video slideshow software maker Animoto recently rolled out a few significant tweaks to its service, including HD support and faster video rendering. “This new engine will allow your video to render at much faster speeds and higher qualities. Not only will you be able to combine your photos and movie clips into a 720p HD ...
Cisco Expands to India, Taps Enormous Market
The Wall Street Journal reports networking behemoth Cisco and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., a part of the $7.1 billion Mahindra group, signed a global partnership agreement to offer virtual dealerships and cloud computing services in smart cities, and sports and entertainment. “We are looking to cater to a global market size of $5 billion… we expect ...
Qualcomm Investors Confused, Intel Launches new Virtualization-Optimized Chip
Chipmaker Qualcomm announced some good news for its stockholders today – its board of directors approved a 13 percent increase to the company’s quarterly cash dividend. The dividend will increase from $0.19 to $0.215, or $0.86 annually per share, and will be effective for quarterly dividends payable after March 25, 2011. Qualcomm CEO Dr. Paul ...
