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On one hand, it looks like the ghost of Solyndra didn’t scare away President Obama from addressing government support for solar technology and clean power in the State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Obama said he won’t walk away from clean power, despite acknowledging that some technologies don’t pan out and some...
In his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama laid out a blueprint for economic recovery, with numerous references to the technology sector. “An economy built to last is one where we encourage the talent and ingenuity of every person in this country,” the President said, with Steve Jobs’ wife (and Instagram’s Mike...
The Megaupload saga continues. Kim Dotcom, Megaupload’s mega founder, was just denied bail by a New Zealand court citing he’s a flight risk. He will remain in New Zealand’s custody until February 22, when the courts will hear the US Justice Department’s application for Schmitz. Dotcom insists he’s innocent of the various charges involving...
As Capgemini’s CTO for North America, Joe Coyle hears an awful lot about cloud computing. He hears it from customers that want to evaluate cloud solutions and from vendors that want to win that business. Capgemini, a $12 billion global systems integrator, has relationships with all the major vendors and many enterprise customers, so...
There are plenty of impressive stats in Apple’s December quarter earnings report, such as 37 million iPhones shipped, $46 billion of overall sales, and $13 billion of profit. But Apple’s most impressive stat continues to be its growth rate: Apple is not only huge, but it is growing at a rate far greater than...
Just a week after Twitter’s acqui-hire of Summify, the company has done it again. This time Twitter is grabbing Web security firm Dasient and winding down the Dasient business. Instead of servicing the old customer base, the Dasient team is going to work on Twitter’s revenue engineering team. Wait, what? You might think that...
In some cases, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. That is unless your extremely popular site has been completely cloned. Fab founder and CEO Jason Goldman tweeted about a new-found UK based clone of his money making machine, and wasn’t flattered at all. This looks somewhat familiar. Imitation in this case is not...
SquareTrade, a San Francisco-based company that provides warranties for consumer electronics products such as the iPhone, iPad, laptops and e-readers, landed a $238 million investment from Bain Capital. The new investment is being made jointly by Bain’s private equity and venture capital affiliates. The influx of cash is meant to “position the company to...