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This week, Google has had quite a bit of rumbling on the people side. While the information giant usually gets noticed by the media for its appetite for acquisitions, they also invest in people. Over at The Wall Street Journal’s All Things …
PayNearMe Changes the Prepaid Model for the Everyday Cash Customer
According to PayNearMe’s own website, over 24% of all households in the United States don’t have credit or debit cards and they intend to exploit this untapped cash-only consumer base. PayNearMe combines a modified cash load network with an application technology platform …
Early Reviews of IE9: It’s Pretty, Very Pretty
Internet Explorer has become the much maligned whipping-child of the Internet browser wars, even if they still hold a majority of the market due to its entanglement with the Windows OS. Their most recent update, IE9, has been turning some heads. Especially …
Like + Bing? Microsoft and Facebook Engaged in Search Talks
All Things Digital has exclusive news that Microsoft is in talks with Facebook about deepening their search entanglement. The deal hinges around Microsoft’s access to data acquired from Facebook’s famous Like button. While the deal is not closed and talks could end …
Hewlett-Packard’s Eyes on ArcSight Brings Lawsuits and Another Bidding War?
Stock market traders are watching Hewlett-Packard right now, wondering if their current involvement in an auction for the cybersecurity company, ArcSight, will result in a lucrative bidding tug-of-war. This expectation comes right on the heels of HP’s acquisition of 3Par, which did …
Hadoop World is Coming: Event Agenda
Cloudera, Inc. is announcing the event agenda for Hadoop World, with some exciting presentations listed, Below is listed only a few of the topics these presentations will cover: MapReduce and parallel database systems, Hadoop image processing for disaster relief, Sentiment analysis, Multi-channel …
Gilt City Launching New “Local Sales” Site
Local markets have long looked for a way to draw in nearby customers through street coupons, inserts in local newspapers, and local mailer campaigns. With social networking and the addition of localization to the Internet, companies like Gilt City are getting in …
Crowdsourcing Receives a Giant Boost as uTest Gets $13M Investment
uTest, a crowdsourcing company that does in-the-wild mobile app testing, has just finished a strong series C investment round raking in almost $13M. The round has been lead by their primary investor, Scale Ventures, but past investors also participated – such as …
Verizon’s V CAST Apps Store To Offer Android, Blackberry Apps
Verizon’s new Android app store, V CAST Apps, is set to launch soon and they’re already accepting submissions for Android apps. Developers should be enticed to this particular portal—totally separate from the Google Android Market—as Verizon is trying to create a wilder, …
Microsoft, Google Already Testing TV White-Space for Broadband Use
The FCC has only barely set pen to paper on licenses for using TV white-space and already the corporate information sharks are moving in. While the formal white-space license rules are still being finalized, experimental licenses have already been released to various …