IT’s Changing – The Times They Are Changing
By Secret CTO
I was driving with my kids the other day (4 and 8) and they asked me what time it was. My response was “At the tone, the time will be 10:30 – ding”. You…
By Secret CTO
After Building Community, Thomson Reuters Ropes in Customers With Open Calais Service
By Nate D'Amico
In just over two years after launching its fantastic semantic Open Calais platform, Thomson Reuters is seeing great adoption of the commercial side of the service. Starting out by exposing Open Calais as a…
Ding on Bing! Google Acquires ITA Software for $700M
Google has made another preemptive strike with its latest acquisition; ITA Software will soon be part of the Google family. With a $700 million price tag, ITA remained in exclusive talks with Google, weeding…
Eucalyptus Announces New $20 Million Round
By Nate D'Amico
Commercial Open Source Infrastructure-as-a-Service startup Eucalyptus is back in the news again with the announcement of a new $20 million round of financing. The new round is led by NEA, as well as Benchmark…
Steve Jobs Personally Demonstrates Why Designing for the Early Adopter is Perilous
When I originally saw this post that’s making the rounds today over at Boy Genius Reports, the responses that immediately sprung to mind were along the lines of “the Chris Brogan’s of the world…
HP Palm Analysis: HP Finalized Palm Acqusition – It’s All About SmartPhones and Edge Devices
By John Furrier
Today, HP today announced it has completed its acquisition of Palm Inc. at a price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash. Back in March SiliconAngle was the first to accurately…
Sprout Integrates with DoubleClick, Offering Full-Service Ads
Remember widgets? Well, they’re still around, they’re just far more interactive. Sprout, the company that launched an impressive widget builder two years ago, is diving deeper into advertising, as it shifts its products to…
Microsoft Kin Fail Spreading to Kinect: Wrong Target, Wrong Time
Microsoft has discontinued its Kin line, pulling back on a mobile device campaign aimed at teens. Low sales numbers is the reason Microsoft has given for its decision to discontinue the Kin just 6…
Mobile Web Ads Increase 50 Percent in US: Mobile Mix Report
Millennial Media released its Mobile Mix Report today, confirming a lot of what you already thought of the mobile market–it’s still red hot. In the U.S., the mobile web continues to grow, increasing about…
The West Coast Corridor: Disruptive Creation On The Fault Line
By Tom Foremski
California has by far the largest number of tech workers. According to TechAmerica Foundation’s Cyberstates 2010 report, it has 993,000 tech workers, and its largest center is Silicon Valley. But it’s not just Silicon…