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Apple Shares Hit $300, Mega Milestone for Consumer Electronics Market
Apple shares are at an all time high, rising above $300 for the first time. It’s a major milstone for Apple, and confirmation of its influenc in consumer electronics within our current market. Opening at $300.20 this morning, Apple stock recently traded at $300.50, up 0.6% from Tuesday, and 43% for the year. Despite the ...
xAD Gets Another $4M to Grow Local Mobile Ads
Local mobile ad company xAD has received an expanded capital round of funding, taking in another $4 million in this B1 round. Heading up the new funds is Emergence Capital Partners, which has had investments in other ad networks like Doubleclick. The funding will be used to expand its technology platform, grow its management team ...
Mobile Browsers vs. Apps: Which Will Prevail for Holiday Shopping?
The question of whether or not mobile apps are here to stay is highly steeped in the future of the mobile market, with lots of attention being given to their growing economy, ability to interface directly with consumers, and demand for cloud-based services that trickle all the way down to the end user. But the ...
Qualcomm Subsidiary Adds to the Flock, Acquires iSkoot Technologies
Qualcomm Innovation Center has acquired iSkoot Technologies Inc., looking to up its integrated services options towards optimizing network usage. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. We’ve got some serious subsidiary action going on here, as the Qualcomm Innovation center is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, and iSkoot Technologies is a newly-formed corporation that ...
Marissa Mayer Leaving Google Search Products to Head Google’s Future in Localization
Google executive Marissa Mayer is leaving her position as VP of search products, but she’s not leaving the company. The first female engineer at Google, joining the company in 1999, will now oversee location and local services. The news comes by way of an email, reports Bloomberg, citing, “Marissa has made an amazing contribution on ...
Hadoop is a “Big part of Twitter’s ecosystem”
Cloudera is really aiming for the enterprise with open-source project Hadoop, and its focusing its efforts around data management and transfer, easing analysis systems within virtulized environments. Twitter is one of the many big players that has found benefits in Hadoop’s tools, and we discuss with Twitter developer Kevin Weil at Hadoop World today. “Hadoop ...
What Windows Phone 7 Means for the Cloud
Windows Phone 7 is still a variable in the long-term effect of the mobile OS war. But early expectations of the platform are high, and now that Microsoft has officially debuted Windows Phone 7, the world is anxious to figure out what it all means, despite the fact that its real world scenarios have yet ...
We’re Live at Hadoop World, Rocking the Cloud. Tune Into #theCUBE!
SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Wikibon.org founder Dave Vellante are at it again. Our “resident anchormen” have been traveling the world with #theCUBE, covering the cloud from every angle. This week they’re at Hadoop World, an event we’ve especially been looking forward to for several weeks now. Backed by Cloudera, Hadoop’s open-source cloud tools are ...
OraOop Sounds like a Basketball Trick, but it’s Really an Oracle-Apache Enhancer
At Hadoop World today, a new tool was released from Quest Software and Cloudera, the company behind Hadoop. Called OraOop, it’s a connector between Oracle and Apache Hadoop, allowing for fast, scalable data transfer between the respective databases. OraOop was developed by Quest as a free plug-in to Sqoop, Clouder’a existing open-source framework. What OraOop ...
Windows Phone 7 Has Arrived! Here’s the Rundown.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has unveiled Windows Phone 7 today, in all its glory. A handful of devices for AT&T and T-Mobile offer a good start for consumer availability, and the specs aren’t half bad either. The OS itself is designed for integrated purposes, with Outlook and Uverse integration, a task-oriented homescreen, and graphic support ...
