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What Keeps Springpad’s CEO Up at Night?
This is the first in a series we’ll be doing as we take a closer look at some of the thought leaders and influencers that affect our space. These snapshot profiles uncover some of the personal traits that drive our favorite people in the tech industry, giving you a pleasantly surprising look at the human ...
Piston Cloud Brings First OpenStack Solution: Ready for Prime Time?
OpenStack has been around for over a year now, racking up some pretty high profile partners especially in the past few months. And as the ecosystem continues to mature, we begin to see some product launches around RackSpace’s open source initiative. Piston Cloud is officially launching today, introducing pentOS for the enterprise. It’s an open ...
Evri Launches First Topic-Based Reader On iPad
Evri, a leading innovator in news discovery, announced the launch of Evri for iPad. This is the first iPad app that lets users build their own news experience from millions of topic choices, each with an individual news channel. Evri’s known for its news filtering capabilities, launching the personalized news reader after years of successful ...
A Whole New, Data-Driven Facebook Even Users Benefit From
I was at the first f8 conference in San Francisco a few years ago, and the hope for Facebook’s platform was full of promise for businesses, including Facebook’s. What I like about this year’s f8 keynote is that it’s new Timeline, Social Apps and Realtime Serendipity are full of promise for the users. Facebook’s spent ...
Whitman Named HP’s 3rd CEO in Two Years
Speculation has been bubbling all day and the shoe has finally dropped. HP CEO Leo Apotheker is being replaced by Meg Whitman, per an announcement Apotheker made today. Whitman is known for her tenure at eBay, and is regarded for her experience in running a large technology company. Apotheker stepped in as HP’s CEO just ...
f8 Keynote Live Stream: Watch the Video
Facebook’s f8 conference kicks off today, battling Google+ for the social networking limelight this week. With Zuckerberg preparing to take the stage, we have the live keynote stream below. It’s the fourth annual f8 conference, highlighting Facebook’s growing platform around social networking and beyond. As the Facebook profile becomes more prevalent in daily interactions and its platform ...
The App Store is Dead. Long Live the App Store!
The mobile industry is commerce in motion, undergoing a tumultuous revolution of technology and economy. In the midst of patent lawsuits, antitrust investigations and platform launches is a patch of green, popping up markets around the promise of mobile, and giving the industry’s players something to fight for. There’s no telling who the ultimate winners ...
Appcelerator’s Extension Marketplace: A Shop for Mobile Developers
Appcelerator, the mobile cloud platform for developing native mobile, desktop, and tablet applications using web technologies, is launching its own marketplace, harping on a trend that’s booming in certain sectors, but lacking for the developers sector. The “Appcelerator Open Mobile Marketplace” was announced at the company’s CODESTRONG Developer Conference held in San Francisco, CA this week. The ...
mSpot Takes on Mobile Music Cloud by Playing the Field
As Songza, the free cloud-based music service went mobile and released free apps on both iOS and Android platform, they follow in a long line of music cloud services all vying for their place in this emerging industry. Offering a service for free, even if it’s a limited portion of the full service, is an ...
TappIn Is The New HomePipe, Taps Into Salesforce
HomePipe is undergoing a transformation, with a major update and a new name–TappIn. An innovator in digital content access and file sharing, TappIn is also launching new features that cater to the needs of professionals. For starters, there’s Salesforce.com integration, cloud caching, enhanced secure sharing and multi-lingual support to meet the increasing demand for a solution that ...
