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HP Trumps Dell’s Bid for 3PAR Again: Higher Premiums for 3PAR
The bidding war lives on. Hewlett-Packard has raised the stakes, again, on its offer for 3Par. HP is now presenting $27 per share, increasing its previous cash bid offered at $24. This is the second time HP has sought to trump Dell’s bid for the Fremont, CA-based 3Par. The move comes shortly after 3Par accepted ...
Google Realtime, A New Place to Hang Your Search Hat
Google real-time search is officially live, on its own standalone sight. A project first introduced late last year, the real-time search initiative has since taken on a whole new meaning for Google and the search and advertising industry. Real-time search, as a movement, has shaped greatly shaped how social media becomes relevant to many other ...
HP Acquires Stratavia, Expanding Hosted Solutions
Dell may have won the bidding war for 3PAR, but HP has announced its another strategic move, with the acquisition of Stratavia. The privately-held database and application automation company will be folded into HP to improve its a la cart storage and cloud-computing solutions for businesses and organizations. Based in Denver, Stratavia will be incorporated ...
Dell Trumps HP in 3PAR Bidding Wars
It looks like Dell may win out on the clash with HP over the 3PAR acquisition. After HP outbid Dell for 3PAR, Dell has returned with a higher offer. Dell has revised its merger agreement with 3PAR, offering up $24.30 per share. 3PAR has reportedly accepted the offer. From the Wall Street Journal, The agreement, ...
Is It Too Soon for Facebook Places, and Where Are the Consumers’ Intrests?
It’s barely been a week since Facebook Places launched, and the buzz has not slowed around its business potential, marketing prowess and startup-squashing powers. But a Wall Street Journal article today reminds us that it’s far too soon to jump to major conclusions around the business of geo-location and marketing, particularly as it pertains to ...
Confirmed: Twitter Hires Bain and Hill, Growing Sales & Revenue
The news of Bain’s move from News Corp. to Twitter has been confirmed, with some extra icing. Brent Hill, a former Google Sales executive, will also be joining Twitter as the director of sales for Central U.S. “With Adam and Brent joining the team, we now have senior sales executives from a wide spectrum of ...
Vyatta 6.1 Launch Today, Expanding Virtualization Security in a Big Way
Open networking and vitrualization company Vyatta has launched Version 6.1 today, the latest in its open network OS upgrades. It’s an important milestone for the Cisco alternative, as it is a compilation of several factors and successes that help to establish the company in its cloud-computing services for the enterprise. With Vyatta Version 6.1, there’s ...
Viralheat Democratizes Media Data Analytics with Social Trends
Social media analytics tool Viralheat is launching a new product today: Social Trends bring fresh visualization features to Viralheat’s steadily expanding toolkit. The startup, which launched in July 2009, provides affordable social media analytics from across multiple portals, from Twitter to YouTube, or your own social app. Viralheat’s goal to bring this data to the ...
Twitter Steals News Corp. Executive to Head Up Revenues
Twitter’s latest move towards building up its business–the company has reportedly poached Adam Bain from News Corp., bringing him on to head up the revenue for Twitter. Reporting directly to COO Dick Costolo, Bain’s role as President, Revenue will involve working closely with the development of Twitter’s ad network. From TechCrunch, “Bain’s organization has been ...
HP Outbids Dell, Offers 3PAR $1.6 Billion
Just a week after Dell announced its plans to acquire data-storage company 3PAR, rival Hewlett-Packard has made a competing bid. HP is offering $24 per share, 33 percent higher than Dell’s bid, giving 3PAR a valuation of $1.6 billion. The bidding war has caused 3PAR’s stock to rise 37% in premarket trading this morning. The ...
