“Yes. I think it’s possible if you integrate tablets,” said HP’s CEO, Meg Whitman in response to a question from French newspaper Le Figaro [translated] concerning Apple’s possible takeover as the world’s top PC maker. “Apple does a great job. We need to improve our game and our products to take over the leadership position. […]
Posted on November 30th, 2011 by admin
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Research In Motion this morning introduced a new enterprise mobility solution dubbed BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, aiming to help its business and government clients manage employees’ smartphones and tablets running the BlackBerry operating system, but also Android and iOS devices like the iPhone and the iPad. Currently in early beta testing with a limited number of […]
Posted on November 29th, 2011 by admin
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Classify this as a rumor for now, but Israeli business press is reporting that Akamai is poised to take over one of its competitors, website and mobile acceleration technology vendor Cotendo, for $300 million to $350 million. Founded in 2008, Cotendo has raised over $36 million in funding from investors like Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital […]
Posted on November 27th, 2011 by admin
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Nokia Siemens Networks would like you to know that it “puts mobile broadband and services at the heart of its strategy”, and to demonstrate this they plan to fire roughly 17,000 people worldwide before the end of 2013 as part of ‘an extensive global restructuring program’. Says Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks: “We […]
Posted on November 24th, 2011 by admin
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Intel Capital, the chip maker’s investment arm, this morning provided some details about a recently made investment in Insyde Software, a publicly listed Taiwan company that specializes in system firmware based on Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) as well as customized Android distributions for OEM and ODM customers. Intel Capital injected NT$300 million, or roughly […]
Posted on November 23rd, 2011 by admin
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Federal agencies have budgeted $6.5 billion for security in 2012, much less on a percentage basis than other businesses and industries. The federal government lags behind most industries when it comes to how much of its IT budgets are spent on security, pointing to a need for agencies to rethink their investments as they adopt […]
Posted on November 22nd, 2011 by admin
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Hojoki this morning announced that it has raised $620,000 in seed funding as the German startup gears up for the launch of its public beta on the 7th of December (coinciding with the Le Web conference in Paris). The round was led by Kizoo Technology Ventures. Hojoki’s mission is to solve the problem of ‘information […]
Posted on November 22nd, 2011 by admin
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About six months ago, local advertising company Yext made a big bet on a new market. It’s pay-per-call business was growing at a rapid clip, but was limited in its potential reach. So CEO Howard Lerman spent $10 million building an entirely new and complementary product that lets local businesses manage their listings across dozens […]
Posted on November 18th, 2011 by admin
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Exclusive – Boundary, a San Francisco startup developing a real-time network monitoring solution, has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, TechCrunch has learned. Boundary’s monitoring-as-a-service offering aims to help dev-ops monitor networks and application traffic flow in real-time, both for public cloud environments like EC2 and private cloud datacenters. Boundary […]
Posted on November 17th, 2011 by admin
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ServiceMesh, an enterprise cloud platform has raised $15 million in funding from Ignition Partners. Frank Artale, a partner at Ignition, will join the ServiceMesh board of directors. This is ServiceMesh’s first round of institutional funding. The ServiceMesh Agility Platform helps enterprise customers with self-service provisioning and management of standardized and fully governed infrastructure as a […]
Posted on November 17th, 2011 by admin
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