As companies upgrade to Windows 7 and replace older laptops there is a shortage of the latest Intel laptop PC Core i3 and Core i5 microprocessors. The shortfall is in Intel’s new laptop microprocessors codenamed Arrandale, including some Core i3 and Core i5 chips. The shortage has caused chip buyers to bid the price of […]
Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by admin
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Gist, a recently launched web service that aims to organize your communication streams, is bringing its tool to Lotus Notes with a new plugin. Gist offers services that help you keep tabs on the people in your professional network. The service’s web interface allows you to see past messages and attachments from each contact, news […]
Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by admin
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Another healthy quarter for Microsoft, which saw a 34.5 percent boost in net income to $4 billion, on top of a more modest 6 percent increase in quarterly revenues to $14.5 billion. The return to growth was driven largely by sales of Windows 7, which were up 28 percent to $4.4 billion. (Windows Live is […]
Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by admin
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SAP this morning announced its intent to acquire TechniData, a provider of product safety and environmental, health and safety solutions. Through this acquisition of its longtime partner, SAP intends to expand its product portfolio as well as its “market and thought leadership in sustainability”. Terms and purchase price are not publicly disclosed. Based in Markdorf, […]
Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by admin
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In today’s high-risk world, foreseeing potential problems and eliminating them before they happen is the ideal many executives strive toward. As business environments move at a rapid pace, making the most of the increased volumes of available market and customer data has become business critical, a new report from management consultancy Arthur D. Little warns. […]
Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by admin
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Virtualization provider Media Temple has raised $15 million from a group of investors led by Triangle Capital (also includes GMB Mezzanine Capital). Founded in 1998, Media Temple is a web hosting and software service provider, helping clients host websites, email, and other forms of rich media content. This is the company’s first round of outside […]
Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by admin
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Fusion-io, a company that provides data storage technologies, has just raised $45 million in a Series C funding led by Meritech Capital Partner with Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Triangle Peak Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Lightspeed Venture Partners participating in the round. This brings Fusion-io’s total funding to over $110 million. According to the […]
Posted on April 21st, 2010 by admin
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3scale Networks, a Barcelona, Spain-based provider of API management solutions, has raised $800.000 in equity and loans from Spanish VC Inveready Seed Capital and public entities like NEOTEC and CIDEM / ACC1Ó. 3scale essentially provides a SaaS API management infrastructure solution that enabled Internet-based companies to secure, control, monitor and generate revenue from the distribution […]
Posted on April 21st, 2010 by admin
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Data storage company Pivot3 has raised another $4 million in funding from Northleaf Capital Partners. This round of funding adds to the company’s recent $25 million in Series D round of funding which was led by Focus Ventures with existing investors InterWest Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mesirow Financial Capital Partners IX, and Silver Creek Ventures […]
Posted on April 20th, 2010 by admin
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Big Blue saw steady earnings this quarter, reported a 13 percent rise in net income for the first quarter of 2010, with net income equaling $2.6 billion compared with $2.3 billion in the first quarter of 2009. IBM also reported diluted earnings of $1.97 per share compared with diluted earnings of $1.70 per share in […]
Posted on April 20th, 2010 by admin
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