Klint Finley

Klint Finley is a Senior Writer at SiliconAngle. His specialties
include IT services, enterprise technology and software development.
Prior to SiliconAngle he was a writer for ReadWriteWeb. He's also a
former IT practicioner, and has written about technology for over a
decade. He can be contacted at angle@klintfinley.com.

Latest from Klint Finley

Salesforce.com Buys Rypple and Gives it Another Name Sure to Taunt its SAP Rival

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Less than two weeks ago SAP bought human resources/human capital management software-as-a-service company SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion. Salesforce.com followed suit today with the purchase of Rypple, an employee performance management SaaS, for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to close April …

Capgemini Expands Presence in China

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Capgemini will expand its focus on China, going so far as to dedicate some of its Indian workforce to bolster its Chinese operations, according to the Times of India. “Currently 5% of Capgemini’s revenues of about 8.7 billion euro come from emerging …

Freemium Validation: SurveyMonkey Acquires MarketTools, Valued at $1 Billion

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

It’s been a good week for Portland startups. Jive Software, which is headquartered in Palo Alto but started in Portland and still has many employees here, launched its IPO. And now SurveyMonkey, another Portland startup, has acquired MarketTools, one if its biggest …

Deloitte Launches “Postdigital Enterprise” to Help Companies Understand Developers, Social Data

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

As the big data explosion continues and cloud, mobile and social change both customer and employee expectations many businesses struggle to determine how to navigate this new landscape. The role developers are playing in even non-software companies is also accelerating. To capitalize …

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em: Microsoft and Open Source

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Earlier this year I wrote that Microsoft needed to open source something big. Even Apple, hardly a bastion of openness, had its Darwin and Webkit projects. Microsoft was talking to the open source talk, but other than a bunch of random ASP.NET …

Infographic: The Most Popular Tools and Services Among Developers

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

BestVendor recently polled 500 developers around the world to ask them what tools they use, from IDEs to project management to frameworks to databases. It sheds light on trends in cloud storage, hosting and NoSQL adoption. Check it out below. Click here …

Mobile OS “Also Rans” Turning Sights to Bigger Prizes

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Microsoft may be gunning for the iPad with its future Windows 8 tablets, but in the mean time Redmond is beginning to roll out its signature productivity apps on the iPad. Microsoft released a OneNote app today, which will be followed by …

Microsoft Embraces Node.js, DevOps and Hadoop with new Azure Release

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Microsoft announced an update to its Azure cloud service that adds support for developing on Azure using Node.js, among other new features and improvements Microsoft is also offering a limited preview of its Apache Hadoop service for Azure. Microsoft has been working …

HP Executives: webOS is a Platform, Not an Operating System

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

HP will transform webOS into a platform with the goal of creating a world-class HTML5-browser that would potentially compete more with Chrome and Safari than Android or iOS. The strategy would put HP on a path to potentially extend Enyo and reach …

HP Open Sources WebOS – Will it Be Enough to Lure Developers?

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

HP is open sourcing WebOS, the mobile operating system acquired from Palm last year for $1.2 billion, and Enyo, the development framework for the OS. WebOS has been widely praised yet has struggled to gain traction, in large part because its app …

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Latest from Klint Finley

Capgemini Expands Presence in China

Freemium Validation: SurveyMonkey Acquires MarketTools, Valued at $1 Billion

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em: Microsoft and Open Source

HP Executives: webOS is a Platform, Not an Operating System

HP Open Sources WebOS – Will it Be Enough to Lure Developers?

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