Daily Archives: July 23, 2012

OpenStack developers leave Rackspace for Nebula

July 23, 2012
OpenStack developers leave Rackspace for Nebula

A cadre of OpenStack developers is leaving Rackspace and taking their talents to Nebula, another OpenStack backer. Most of those leaving came to Rackspace via its acquisition of Anso Labs in February 2011. The seven developers will continue their work on the OpenStack technology, just at a new venue. The news was confirmed late Monday night...

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iOS Soars Ahead of Android Development As Apple Quietly Makes Move Into The Enterprise Market

July 23, 2012
iOS Soars Ahead of Android Development As Apple Quietly Makes Move Into The Enterprise Market

The Apple iOS is surging ahead of the Google Android platform for enterprise development, according to survey results from Appcelerator, the mobile platform development company. In the largest survey of its kind, Appcelerator developers were asked what operating system is best positioned to win the enterprise market. Developers said iOS over Android by a...

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Why VMware bought Nicera? Two videos to watch

July 23, 2012

VMware  is buying software-defined networking startup, Nicira Networks, also known as VMware of networking for a whopping $1.26 billion. In case you were wondering why VMware is shelling out so much money, here are two videos about software defined data centers and virtualized networks. VMware wants a piece of both these markets. Martin Casado, CTO of...

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How 1-800-Flowers Is Taking Over Your Phone

July 23, 2012

The business that is now 1-800-Flowers has been around since 1976. It started as a single flower shop in New York City and has developed into a multi-platform retail business. Though they were just a simple flower shop at the start, president Chris McCann and his brother, founder Jim McCann, understood the importance of...

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Facebook rolls out scheduled posts, segmentation and more for Pages

July 23, 2012

Facebook has rolled out several new tools to help with the management and marketing of Pages on the service, Facebook engineer Omid Saadati announced today. The three tools are post scheduling, unpublished page posts and Page admin permissions for third-party apps. Scheduling is finally coming to page posts, something that has previously required the...

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Moasis Unveils An Accessible Approach To Location-Targeted Ads

July 23, 2012
Moasis Unveils An Accessible Approach To Location-Targeted Ads

Startup Moasis is offering advertisers a new way to run location-targeted ads, one that could hopefully make the process more accessible to both ad agencies and small businesses. Location is a big buzzwords right now, but co-founder and CEO Ryan Golden tells me that most mobile ad companies are approaching the market from an...

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VMware Exec: $1.26 Billion For Nicira Was A Good Buy (VMW, CSCO)

July 23, 2012
VMware Exec: $1.26 Billion For Nicira Was A Good Buy (VMW, CSCO)

VMware VMware’s Bogomil Balkansky See Also VMware Buys Nicira For $1.26 Billion Ben Horowitz Explains Why Tiny Startup Nicira Was Worth $1.26 Billion To VMware VCE Is A Company That Will Soon Hit $1 Billion And Had No CEO For A Year Today, VMware spent an astounding $1.26 billion to buy Nicira, a 100-person...

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This Movie Recruited Instagram Users To Make Its Posters

July 23, 2012
This Movie Recruited Instagram Users To Make Its Posters

Ads of the World See Also Check Out BBDO’s Intern Trading Cards Israeli Ad Students Redesign ‘Ugly’ Arab Web Hacks To Make Them More Cheerful BURN: Judge Makes Apple Buy ‘Samsung DIDN’T Copy Us’ Ads It’s not just brands that have been reaching out to influential Instagram users to promote their products: Now Instagram...

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Mystery Windows Phone device hints at huge performance improvements

July 23, 2012
Mystery Windows Phone device hints at huge performance improvements

According to a test report on the WP Bench handset benchmarking site, there is a new top dog among Windows Phone handsets: the Juggernaut Alpha. Next point: officially, no such device exists. Yes, the Juggernaut Alpha — what a name — isn’t a confirmed unit, but is generally expected to be a dual-core Windows...

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How The Weather Channel Makes So Much Money

July 23, 2012

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that The Weather Channel makes a ton of money. It does, after all, reach 100 million subscribers through its ever-popular cable channel.  “We’re a four screen company — cable, web, iPad, phone, and I don’t know how many companies have that,” Weather Channel global CRO Curt Hecht told us...

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