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Appcelerator VP Discusses Aptana Acquisition, Goals Around Mobile Enterprise Apps
Appcelerator is already kicking things into high gear for 2011, coming off some great developments and product launches last year. The mobile and web app development platform has made an acquisition today, bringing another app program, Aptana, into the fold. According to sources, Appcelerator’s even gearing up for another acquisition in the near future. It’s ...
EMC Launches 41 New Products at Big Data Event
Big news from EMC today, as they launch a record-breaking 41 new products at their event, held this week in New York City (we’re there covering every angle, so stay tuned for continuous updates as the day goes on–in fact, check our photo flip book here). The new product line is EMC’s aim to remain ...
Catching Up with Clearspring – New Team, New Year, New Goals for the Social Web
A new year always brings new excitement around upcoming opportunities—twelve new months of blank canvas coupled with a fresh outlook could be a recipe for success (or at least a success-oriented attitude, and we all know that’s more than half the battle). For Hooman Radfar, 2011 couldn’t be looking any brighter. His company, Clearspring, has ...
Android Breaks a 2-Month Tie with Apple as Top OS in Millennial Media’s Ad Network
There’s been a tie between Android and iOS for two months straight on the recently funded Millennial Media’s mobile advertising network, and December finally named a winner—Android. For the first time, Google’s mobile OS surpassed Apple’s as the largest smartphone OS on the Millennial network, with an 8% increase month-over-month and 46% impression share. iOS ...
Xeround Claims Industry First with Multi-Geo MySQL Cloud
Cloud database company Xeround is officially announcing a new service, MySQL for the Cloud. It’s a multi-geographic cloud database, making your service available on Amazon in Europe and North America. This makes the matter of your server location a little less relevant, adding to Xeround’s agnostic approach to cloud services. What this does is enable ...
Skype Confirms Qik Acquisition, Estimated at $100M
It’s official: Skype is acquiring Qik, the video-broadcasting service. We heard rumors of the acquisition this morning, and Skype has just put out a release confirming the deal. The transaction is expected to close later on this month. While terms of the deal have not been disclosed, estimates put the acquisition around $100 million. From ...
Qik Raises $6M Amidst Skype Acquisition Rumors: CES 2011
Something’s afoot at the Qik offices this week, with rumblings of $6.3 million in funding, and a potential acquisition by video chat service Skype. The self-broadcasting app is keeping mum on everything for now, as is Skype. We’ve reached out for comments from both parties and have not heard anything back just yet. While the ...
Sauce Labs CTO Addresses Developer Needs around SaaS Revolution
The SaaS revolution has decidedly shifted the way we think about software, its use cases and its distribution. With software able to be developed quite readily, and specific in function and platform application, the cloud becomes a powerful force for the industry to flourish in the coming year. Salesforce’s recent launch of Dreamforce and Google’s ...
Scammers get in the Holiday Spirit Too: Safety Tips from Commtouch
Email marketing has been huge for years, and it’s not going anywhere, despite the increased social networking activity, marketing campaigns, or mobile shopping and search tools. It’s because no matter what, things always seem to circle back to email–it’s still our central station for the majority of our digital communications, be it with friends, family ...
CardStar CEO on Customer Loyalty, Local Ads and Why Groupon Was Right to Turn Down Google
My friend Trish and I have been going back and forth all month about our holiday shopping plans, our lack of time to head to stores, and the usefulness of online shopping. One thing that continually came up in conversation was Groupon, where unique gifts can be given to friends and family, presented as experiences, ...
