Image: Associated Press Mike Volpi of Index Ventures See Also: Cisco Swaps Out The Head Of Its Most Important Business This 30-Year-Old Sold Two Start-Ups In Six Months And Made Millions Dell Is Going To Undercut Cisco On Its Home Turf, Says Employee Who Defected Startups working on a technology called Hadoop have become...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware helped virtualize 12 business critical database applications. Cloud computing, it is often claimed, is a good way for...
This week, Google+ enabled up to 50 people to manage Google+ brand pages. Pages were a long-awaited feature after launch, but they only allowed individual administrators when they arrived. Since brand pages are how organizations manage their presence on Google+, many page owners need to give multiple team members the ability to edit and...
As we heard in August, SimpleGeo founder Matt Galligan left the company to pursue other interests. SimpleGeo was then bought by UrbanAirship in November, and fellow co-founder Joe Stump left the newly acquired startup to start his own venture, Sprintly. Galligan recently announced that he teamed up with Shervin Pishevar to launch their new organization...
When the Lumia 800 went missing from the O2 website, some assumed that the cellular provider had pulled the handset. As it turns out, according to company, the phone is simply out of stock. Why that led to its dissappearnace from the website is a differnet question. To be frank, I don’t think it...
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The photo-sharing market is saturated, and, by and large, we don’t need more players. The players that are there, if they’re not leading, are trying to differentiate themselves from the rest in a host of different ways. In the case of Tracks, while it is, by makeup, a photo-sharing app, CEO Vic Singh says...
The second batch of 250 tickets to the Crunchies, the annual tech awards show hosted by GigaOM, TechCrunch and VentureBeat, are going on sale right now. The last batch sold out within hours, so act fast if you want to get in on this round of tickets. The Crunchies, now in its fifth year,...
Reading about the Chinese hackers hitting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. I was struck by the last two paragraphs, which detailed how the hackers accessed the IP address of a thermostat — as well as the overall tone of resignation around preventing such attacks — and I wondered, how will we...
Today Digg and Facebook are getting close. Real close. Digg is unleashing its new social reader on Facebook. When users turn on social sharing from their Digg accounts, all the stories they read will be frictionlessly shared to their news feed and their friends’ news tickers. This new feature smooshes together your Facebook social...