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“Freedom is My Most Prized Possession.” OpenBucks CEO Talks Money Democratization
We take a look at digital currency’s potential in this week’s Profile Snapshot, a series that invites thought leaders and executives to share some personal insight on industry trends. Marc Rochman, founder and CEO of OpenBucks, has nearly 20 years of experience in the world of plastic cards and prepaid services, with a vision of ...
ScaleXtreme Adds CloudStack Support, Thinks Mobile
Cloud-based systems management provider ScaleXtreme has launched support for Citrix CloudStack, expanding its core offering to include yet another stack service. CloudStack is an open source platform, the result of Citrix’s acquisition of Cloud.com earlier this year. In broadening the number of stacks that can be managed from ScaleXtreme’s central platform, the company offers one ...
Syncplicity Gets New CEO as Cloud Strategy Solidifies
Menlo Park, California-based cloud file management provider Syncplicity has reshuffled its management team as a part of an effort to consolidate its strategy in order to better compete in a particularly crowded market. The most notable change is the appointment of Karen White as the company’s new CEO, taking over the role of co-founder Leonard ...
Livefyre Bags $4.5M for Real-Time Comment Streams
Reinventing the way people converse by means of real-time commenting is what Livefyre’s all about. Through its platform, Livefyre builds a hyper-active community within your site that aims to increase traffic and engagement between you and your readers, tying it in with much of the activity that takes place across the social web. The startup ...
The Curated Age Bridges Media and Device with Eye-C
Eyecon Technology is a company that bridges the gap between media and connected entertainment devices, and it’s looking to the mobile sector as another channel to pontoon. With the introduction of the Eye-C iPhone app, Eyecon puts a new spin on curating content spanning our social streams. Combining a social news reader with a media player, Eye-C ...
Four Data Challenges for CMOs
Data has empowered several industries in the past couple of years, especially with the processing power companies like IBM are putting forth, delivering real-time updates and analysis. Running models, making faster business decisions and getting a better handle on predictive analysis have all contributed to the evolution of how companies are operated, but if you ...
What’s the Industry Impact of iCloud and Siri?
Apple decided to launch iCloud, the free online synchronization and backup service, ahead of iOS 5 and Lion version 10.7.2. despite the upgrades being essential to be able to access the new cloud offering. Steve Jobs called iCloud “the soul” of its upcoming operating system, and it is.
3 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Forget: a CEO’s Perspective
Starting a business is one of the hardest, but also most rewarding things you can do, especially if you’re of an entrepreneurial mindset. In our second profile snapshot with industry executives and thought leaders, we hear from Cynthia McCahon, the CEO and founder of Enloop (see our initial coverage here). It’s a web-based tool designed to help ...
Datafiniti Launches “Google for Data Sets”
No doubt, there’s an endless amount of information on the web. Some is worthwhile, most isn’t. But determining how to glean useful content from the web is a question nearly as old as the Internet itself. Google revolutionized web content search with its algorithms and Page Rank, and now Datafiniti is looking to revolutionize data ...
HP Expands Software & Services Portfolio, Introduces Memristor Chips
Hewlett-Packard is beefing up its enterprise software, hardware and services offerings as it preps to spin off its core consumer electronics business under new head Meg Whiteman. This comes alongside fading investor confidence in the move and the future of the company, though HP hopes to change that. The first update is the addition of several ...
