With the advent of Big Data driving swift transformation in many organizations’ IT functions, uncertainty and fear of change can put the brakes on the vital ability to innovate. How can IT leaders help their teams to conquer uncertainty and embrace change in order to drive innovation and unlock the potential of data-informed decision making? […]
Posted on July 25th, 2014 by admin
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Intigua, a company that specializes in giving enterprises an easier way to manage their IT operations in private and public clouds, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series B round led by Intel Capital. Existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Cedar Fund also participated in this round. In total, the company has […]
Posted on July 24th, 2014 by admin
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Apache Hive is a tool built on top of Hadoop for analyzing large, unstructured data sets using a SQL-like syntax, thus making Hadoop accessible to legions of existing BI and corporate analytics researchers. Developed by Facebook engineers and contributed to the Apache Foundation as an open source project, Hive is now at the forefront of […]
Posted on July 24th, 2014 by admin
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It’s been a whirlwind few months for Vishal Sikka. It began when he suddenly left his job as executive and head of products at SAP at the beginning of May and it has continued as he prepares to take the helm at Infosys on August 1st. When I spoke to him at the end of May, […]
Posted on July 24th, 2014 by admin
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Dropbox, now at 300 million users globally, says that there are 4 million businesses today using its cloud-based platform to store, distribute and share documents. But of those, only around 80,000 have opted so far to use Dropbox for Business, the company’s premium enterprise tier launched earlier this year. Today, the startup is making a move […]
Posted on July 23rd, 2014 by admin
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Yahoo has reached an agreement to acquire Flurry, a mobile analytics company, as part of a push to grow its advertising revenue within its mobile products. Flurry provides tools that help developers and publishers learn more about who’s using their apps in order to better target them with ads. The information, including gender, age and […]
Posted on July 23rd, 2014 by admin
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As payments platforms look for more ways to grow their margins and usage among businesses, they continue to push into a wider and deeper range of financial services. In one of the latest moves, eBay’s PayPal is expanding its Working Capital service to the UK. This is its first market for PayPal’s lending platform outside of […]
Posted on July 23rd, 2014 by admin
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On the heels of news that Apple would be significantly ramping up its mobile enterprise push in a partnership with IBM, BlackBerry is also looking to step up its game. Today, the company announced that it is appointing a new COO, Marty Beard. This is a poach from the ranks of enterprise startups, but also […]
Posted on July 22nd, 2014 by admin
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Another week, another leak. Today we have a new, purported screenshot of the upcoming return of the Start Menu to Windows. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on July 22nd, 2014 by admin
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A job posting and a LinkedIn page are driving conversation in the Microsoft-watching community this morning. The job listing details a position on the “XAML team [...] building the UI framework at the core of the ‘One Microsoft’ OS.” The goal of that team is to “[enable] developers to create UI that works well across all […]
Posted on July 21st, 2014 by admin
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