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Cisco and Citrix Get (More) Socially Responsible
Every large corporation has a certain amount of resources set aside for corporate partner education, training sessions, webinars, investment funds, all meant to stimulate research and development and so on. Cisco and Citrix are two of the members in this club, and they both some interesting news today circling their social responsibly. The first highlight ...
DEMO Spring 2011 Takes CRM, Big Data to the Next Level
The DEMO Spring 2011 conference held today brings together an extraordinary number of start-ups and inactive products under one roof, including, among others, Nimble. The start-up launched Nimble Contact into public data – a social CRM solution. The cloud-based offering integrates social networking, Google Apps, e-mail and business contacts, and aims to allow business users ...
The Story Of How Netflix Pwnd Blockbuster, and Everyone Else [Infographic]
The story of Netflix’s rise and Blockbuster’s subsequent bankruptcy is nothing new, but a recent infographic gives us a visual perspective on the chain of events that have shifted an entire sector of the entertainment industry. Starting with some present day stats, Netflix’s North American subscriber base exceeds the 20 million mark – about the size of ...
This Week’s CloudANGLE: Cisco vs. Juniper Networks, Google vs. Microsoft
This past week has seen quite a bit of updates from the cloud, and Juniper Networks and Cisco topped the list. Juniper Networks finally unveiled the end result of Project Stratus, a 3-year $100 million investment which spawned 125 new patents. QFabric, as it’s now called, is a new datacenter cloud fabric designed to reduce network ...
Daily Deals + LBS: Massive Revenue for Groupon
Groupon’s revenues in 2010 surged to $760 million last year, compared to only $760 million in 2010. The Wall Street Journal reports that offshore users accounted for over a third of the daily deals giant’s revenues, and covered CEO Andrew Mason’s expectations for 2011. “The email, sent by Groupon Chief Executive Andrew Mason to staffers ...
OpenFeint and Adknowledge Open Free Game Dev Platform
Today mobile social games platform OpenFeint and advertising network Adknowledge announced the OFX 2.0, a scalable freemium platform for iOS developers. Available starting March 7, the platform has quite a bit to offer, including pay-per-install app distribution. This memorization model enables developers to increase their app’s downloads by purchasing inventory in other freemium games, and ...
Bing Likes Search Results, and Hopes You Do Too
Microsoft’s updated Bing’s Facebook “Like” integration “to annotate any of the URLs returned by our algorithmic search results to all users in the US .” The integration, or Liked Results update is aiming to make Bing search results more effectively social, further solidifying the Microsoft-Facebook partnership. “Using Liked Results, the Bed & Breakfast that my friends have ...
Apple Day Heightens their Journey to the Cloud
Fast Company named yesterday Apple Day, and for a very good reason. After releasing FaceTime for Mac in the Mac App Store and going ahead with 24-bit audio quality on iTunes earlier this week, Apple Day just kicked off – and in full force. It’s a big step up for Apple and its growing cloud ...
Google Launches Recipe View, Fresh out of the Oven
Google’s getting more niche with its search perks every day. Today brings Recipe View, an ongoing effort to contextualize its big data search and retain users who would otherwise turn to other sites. Google’s latest addition to the left-hand Google Search panel lets users to search for recipes without ever leaving the search engine. Initially, only U.S ...
SAP Looking to Reduce $1.3BN in Damages Paid to Oracle
The Wall Street Journal reports that SAP, who was sentenced by a jury to pay Oracle $1.3 billion for copyright infringement last November, is trying to drastically reduce this amount. The software maker filed motions to do some damage control after now- defunct SAP unit, TomorrowNow Inc, infringed 120 Oracle copyrights and took a $1.3BN ...
