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HP Continues Buying Spree, with ArcSight Acquisition
Not long after beating Dell in an eighteen-day bidding war over 3PAR, Hewlett-Packard is pushing on with its shopping spree. ArcSight, a security software company, is HP’s next target, with reports of plans for a $1.5 billion acquisition. That’s a 25 percent premium over ArcSight’s market value of $1.2 billion, as of last Friday. Based ...
Live Matrix Brings a TV Guide to Current and Upcoming Web Event
Live Matrix is finally launching its site at DEMOfall this year, bringing the long-awaited guide to the web. It was the buzz Live Matrix, co-founded by Nova Spivak, generated around another conference that put its service on our radar–Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins got a sneak peek at the live-web event guide while at SxSW earlier this ...
Ooyala Raises $22M to Grow Global Video Platform and Monetization
Video startup Ooyala has raised $22 million in a recent round of funding, led by the CID Group and ITOCHU Technology Ventures. Existing investors Sierra Ventures and Rembrandt Venture Partners also participated in the round. This brings Ooyala’s total amount of funding raised to $42 million. Coming on the scene nearly four years ago, Ooyala ...
New Nokia CEO Brings Global Perspective to Mobile Future
Nokia has made a striking move this week, bringing in its first non-Finnish CEO. The mobile device manufacturer has named Stephen Elop as the new head of Nokia. The decision shows Nokia’s concern and vulnerability around the future of its company, as Apple, Android and even RIM threaten to encroach on its space. A Microsoft ...
DataDirect Networks Teams with BlueArc for Visual Special Effect Products
DataDirect Networks is partnering with BlueArc to expand its enterprise solutions. The deal will offer a joint, total-workflow storage solution for visual special effects (VFX), and rendering, to be demonstrated at the IBC 2010 exhibition in Europe. By combining efforts, DDN and BlueArc are able to bring a high-performance storage platform for companies, with an ...
TweetDeck Updates, Supports Posterous, Twitter URL Shortener, and More
TweetDeck, the popular desktop client for managing your Twitter, has released an update for the tool today. The latest version, TweetDeck v0.35, isn’t a major overhaul, but show’s the company’s dedication to including some oft-requested features. It’s just the desktop version being updated today, as TweetDeck’s blog notes, “In this release we have, of course, ...
Apple Relaxes App Store Approvals as Android Gains in Relevance
Apple is relaxing the rules around its approval process for iPhone apps, effectively opening the flood gates for developers (to a degree). Of course, Apple is still concerned about safety, and the company has maintained a heady top-down approach to control the types of apps that appear in the iTunes Store. Apple will be detailing ...
Amazon EC2 Launches Micro Instances, for Smaller Apps
The cloud, a la carte (kind of). Amazon is expanding its EC2 hosted solutions, addressing a growing demand around smaller rate plans for smaller applications. The new service, called Micro Instances, come shortly after Amazon announced decreased pricing for its EC2 server. Micro Instances provide 613 MB of memory and support 32-bit and 64-bit platforms ...
MasterCard Sends Money on BlackBerry, iPhone. Still No Android Apps.
MasterCard has launched a BlackBerry app for sending and receiving credits, securely transferring money person-to-person. Set up for the US, the new MasterCard MoneySend app is quite similar to PayPal’s mobile app, and comes weeks after the credit card company launched the service for the iPhone. “MasterCard MoneySend allows users to ‘Send,’ ‘Pay’ or ‘Request ...
Google Gets Psychic with Instant Search Results. Screw the “Enter” Button.
Google has launched Google Instant today, using predictive type technology to deliver faster search results for queries. It cuts down 2-5 seconds per search, showing results in real time, without having to hit the “enter” button. Turns out, the rumors around Google’s latest Doodles are true. During the press event today, Marrissa Mayer, Vice President, ...
