Kristen Nicole
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What to do with Your Whrrl Data Now that Groupon’s Shutting it Down
The merger and acquisition scene is pretty hot right now, with significant consolidation around location-based and data-centric applications. Groupon recently bought Whrrl, and hours later eBay snatched up WHERE. There’s a rising profit margin around consumer data, as more verticals build businesses around its collection and analysis. But where does the consumer fit into all ...
OpenStack a Smart Business Move for RackSpace, Speeds Into Year 2
Standards around the open cloud are still in development, under scrutiny and up for debate. But the growing pains are hopefully well worth the outcome, as more companies find their way into open cloud initiatives that have picked up steam, namely OpenStack. This Rackspace project had the lucky validation of NASA as a launch partner, ...
Unsubscribe.com Puts the Power of Data in Consumers Hands
When it comes to email marketing, it’s a gold mine for data collectors and marketers, all seeking direct access to your inbox. It’s a problem that’s prevailed on the Internet since email first became commonplace, and it’s one that several companies have fought to address. As far as the main email providers go, they all ...
Delicious Quietly Acquired by YouTube Founders
Looks like Delicious has been rescued after all. The social bookmarking service has been acquired by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, incorporating it into their new web-based company, AVOS. The deal was kept pretty quiet– details of the acquisition have not been disclosed, and Delicious users discovered the news only by accessing the ...
Echo CEO Talks Real-Time Data: “We’re Like Amazon for Real-Time”
The real-time web has really begun to chart its industry path, delineating several verticals and tucking data into the most obstinate of places. From local business to virtual services, real-time data and communication methods are shaping our communication mediums as a whole. Countless factors have contributed to the existence of real-time, and its industry development ...
Dell Sleeks Up its Remote Desktop Offerings
Dell’s delivered a remote desktop workstation, increasing its determined efforts to remain relevant in the workspace. The workstation acts like a server, from which remote client PCs can run. With the new release, Dell addresses a primary issue with remote desktops–graphics processing. Dubbed the Precision R5500, Dell’s new workstation renders and delivers pixels to client ...
Fragmentation is Biggest Threat to Mobile Market Success, Even Beyond Android
When it comes to the mobile space, Apple and Google are highly talked about players. But as the battle for domination continues into the tablet realm, it’s Apple that’s stretched its head start into a standing lead. According to Appcelerator’s latest quarterly report, it’s the other players, including Google, RIM and Nokia, that are cooling ...
Yolink Tackles WordPress Search. Whoa!
Yolink is turning WordPress search on its head, launching a new blog platform search tool, with the help of WP Engine. What Yolink set out to do is address the standing issues with WordPress search, which sorts results according to date by default. There have been several solutions presented for WordPress over the years, from ...
HP Appeals to High-End Clients with New Consulting Services
Hewlett-Packard has big goals for its high-end consulting initiative, along with many other large scale cloud service providers looking to make their product line more of a closed circle. HP rolled out its Strategic IT Advisory Services suite today, designed to cater to top-paying HP customers. The long-term plan here is to bolster the company’s ...
Pano Logic Upgrades the Virtual Desktop, Commoditizes Endpoints
The virtual desktop space is an important aspect of the virtualization journey for many works paces, and as businesses seek out more ways to cut costs and increase productivity around IT management, virtualized machines provide a centralized system that can streamline a team or an entire office. Pano Logic has its own unique take on ...
