Amid fierce smartphone competition between Samsung and Apple that has spilled into a multinational patent battle, it looks like Apple may have opened yet another front on the M&A side: it is buying mobile security company AuthenTec — which had only just signed a deal with Samsung for Android devices — for $356 million. AuthenTec, […]
Posted on July 27th, 2012 by admin
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Oracle is stopping a marketing campaign attacking IBM in wake of a national advertising board‘s recomendation that the company made false claims when comparing its Exadata technology to competing IBM products. It’s the second time in four months the National Advertising Division (NAD) has taken action against Oracle for making false claims when comparing its Exadata […]
Posted on July 27th, 2012 by admin
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Consumers are not in a research mode when they’re on Facebook. Instead, the first place they go to find out about a product is Google or the company web site. That’s according to an internal study by GetSatisfaction, which found that close to 90% of customers go to a company’s website to research products or […]
Posted on July 26th, 2012 by admin
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AppFog is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider that wants to do for developer platforms what Google did for email. GMail launched in 2004 by giving its users a distributed service with 2 gigabytes (GB) of free disk space. Search made it possible. It disrupted competitors like Hotmail that provided a measly 2 mb […]
Posted on July 26th, 2012 by admin
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GoodData has raised $25 million to continue developing its cloud-based business intelligence technology. The funding brings GoodData’s total funding to $53.5 million. Founder and CEO Roman Stanek said the investment came from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners and Fidelity Growth Partners. Windcrest Partners is also contributing to the round. GoodData offers a cloud-based data […]
Posted on July 25th, 2012 by admin
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Google has a new cloud partner program that shows the company’s drive to go after old IT. In a blog post today, Google provided some details about it with a link to a list of the technology and service providers that are part of the program. It’s a short list but here’s what they are […]
Posted on July 25th, 2012 by admin
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Earlier today, news broke that Craigslist has taken legal action against PadMapper and Craigslist API creator 3Taps — after an ongoing disagreement over the scraping of Craigslist data to use in a third-party service (3Taps became PadMapper’s partner for data acquisition after PadMapper got the initial C&D). We’ve also found out that at least one […]
Posted on July 24th, 2012 by admin
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The Apple iOS is surging ahead of the Google Android platform for enterprise development, according to survey results from Appcelerator, the mobile platform development company. In the largest survey of its kind, Appcelerator developers were asked what operating system is best positioned to win the enterprise market. Developers said iOS over Android by a 53% […]
Posted on July 24th, 2012 by admin
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Some more developments for Referly, the Y-Combinator/500 Startups company co-founded by Twilio’s ex-head of marketing, Danielle Morrill. In what may be a hat-tip to the adept use of APIs at her former employer Twilio, today Referly is launching an API program that will let any online merchant create a referrals program powered by Referly’s pay-per-action marketplace. At […]
Posted on July 23rd, 2012 by admin
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Why is the cloud so hard to make funny? Do a search on YouTube. You will see songs about the cloud based upon Joni Mitchell and Vanilla Ice songs. “Cloud, Cloud Maybe.” Groan. Thank goodness for The Onion. Finally, the cloud is funny. The cloud is not supposed to be funny. How can you be […]
Posted on July 23rd, 2012 by admin
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