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APPLE answers Android with downmarket iPhone — MICROSOFT hands devs Win8.1 — HP DROPPED from Dow — BUSINESS INSIDER’s bigot CTO outs self

September 10, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

New iPHONE, same old Wall St. blues — New WINDOWS, same old mess –- FEDS use travel alerts to seize devices — BUSINESS INSIDER cans bigot CTO

September 11, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

SAP’s Business Objects update focuses on stability, data source support

SAP has unveiled a new version of its Business Objects BI (business intelligence) software suite that features support for more than 140 data sources and the promise of more stable deployments. Business Objects 4.1, which was announced Monday, follows the 2011 release of version 4.0. That product slipped well past its original release date, but […]

With New Business Suite & Samsung Partnership, Mobile Security Company Lookout Prepares To Take On The Enterprise

Lookout, a mobile security company which previously focused on consumer protections and anti-malware services, is today taking a step to expand its footprint further with the launch of a new, standalone product for business. Arriving later this year, Lookout for Business intends to allow larger organizations the ability to secure mobile devices attaching to the […]

Business Continuity Digest

Top 10 Reasons Why Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Plans Fail  In the recession many organizations put disaster recovery and business continuity on the back burner. As a result those plans are not as functional as… Include Social Media in Your Business Continuity Plans  6 Ways to Utilize Social Media Before a Disaster Strikes by Adam […]

SAP posts growth but lowers outlook in main software business

SAP reported revenue growth in the second quarter driven by growth in cloud subscriptions and revenue from support and its HANA in-memory database. However, the company lowered its growth outlook for software and software-related service revenue for the full year 2013, citing lower software revenue expectations as a result of macroeconomic challenges, particularly in Asia […]

Dropbox Says It Has No Plans To Charge Developers (Or Otherwise Change Its Business Model)

One of the questions that came up a couple of times during the press Q&A at Dropbox’s DBX developer conference: What does today’s news mean for the company’s business model? Given the impressive user numbers and platform expansion announced today (including a new API to sync data between apps), could Dropbox try to make money […]

Study: LinkedIn Positioned To Become First Global Economic Graph, Business Platform On Par With Google And Facebook

LinkedIn is positioned to become the first global economic graph with the ability to mine the transactions of an emerging data economy. That’s the conclusion of a study by faberNovel, a Paris-based consulting group that has published the results of its work with a detailed 127-slide report titled: LinkedIn, The Serious Network. FaberNovel has a […]

Reputation.com Buys Snail Mail Filtering App PaperKarma To Boost Its Mobile Privacy Management Business

Reputation.com, the online identity and privacy startup, has bought PaperKarma, a mobile app built to help users identify and then stop spammy snail mail. In a letter to users (embedded below), PaperKarma’s founders Sean Mortazavi and Brendan Ribera say that the app will continue to work as before; but Reputation.com notes that it will also […]

Zoho Launches Mobile-Ready Survey Tool To Extend Online Business Platform

Zoho has released a new survey tool that allows customers to conduct surveys in customer satisfaction, education, human resources, marketing, marketing research and other areas using custom or pre-built templates. Zoho Survey, available for web and iOS and Android devices, offers different question types, such as multiple choice, ratings and text boxes. After users create surveys using either […]