Sunday December 22, 2024

Sosh, An Activity Curator, Flips The Monetization Switch With An Event Ticketing Marketplace

Sosh has been around since 2011 and brought a curated activities concierge to SF, NY, and Seattle for three years. But today, the app that offers up cool things to do is adding a new layer to the platform in the form of the Sosh Marketplace. Looking to finally introduce a revenue stream, Sosh is […]

Tami Reller and Tony Bates are out at Microsoft — stay tuned for more departures

Over the weekend, Kara Swisher at Re/code posted a blog that really Tweet This Post

GLG Share Gives Startups Access To Mentorship Without Trading Equity

Since 1998, the Gerson Lehrman Group has been helping its clients answer their most difficult questions, using an algorithm to choose from more than 350k experts and then facilitating a conversation between clients and counselors. These experts include C-level executives, doctors, scientists, educators, journalists, and anyone else who has fostered a certain level of expertise […]

YAHOO cuts off Facebook, Google — PC death spiral — SNOWDEN plays SXSW — ‘GnuTLS’ BUG hits open-source — SV ‘Comfort women’ startup

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Huawei expands partnership with SAP, launches new HANA hardware

Huawei’s enterprise unit has launched the FusionCube for high-end HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) systems and will also work with SAP on products for areas like enterprise mobility. The enterprise segment of the IT market isn’t an easy one to break, but with its three-year-old unit, Huawei is betting big on repeating the success the company […]

Priceline Buys Israel’s Qlika For $15-20M To Boost Global Expansion With Rocket Science-Powered Ad Tech

Qlika launched out of UpWest’s fourth batch of Israeli-American startups in March to tackle a big problem in online marketing: Localization. In other words, what’s the point of spending millions of dollars on marketing campaigns — across search, social and display — if those campaigns look exactly the same in California as they do in […]

Splunk’s big data promise: Google for your visual analytics

Splunk Enterprise started its life as a log-analysis tool, but it has

Security News Digest

Security News Digest Cybersecurity IT Pros are in short supply  IT Pros who can handle cybersecurity are in short supply Cybersecurity specialist are not being trained by our educational system and this shows with high… Top 10 Data Security Risks for Cloud Storage  There is tremendous anxiety about security risks in the cloud. CIOs and […]

McAfee: Cybercrime-As-A-Service Led To Credit Card Breach, While Mobile “Malware Zoo” Grew 197% In Q4

It looks like the rise of the “as a service” model, where people can buy software, platform access, security and more from a cloud-based provider for a fixed term, may have spawned its Damien: cybercrime as a service. The latest report from McAfee notes that the rush of point-of-sale credit card breaches that hit consumers […]

Tracking with metadata: It’s not all bad

Metadata has had a bad rap lately, with disclosures tying its collection to government spying programs. But those bits of information lurking behind our phone calls, photos and online chats can be useful in other ways if they’re harnessed properly. Tweet This Post