Quora See Also The Sudden, Mysterious Exit Of A Quora Cofounder Has Silicon Valley Baffled Quora, The Startup That Threatens Journalists The Most A Lot Of Quora’s $50 Million Is Going Straight To Amazon Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo is nothing if not ambitious. He just announced plans to dramatically expand the site’s goals beyond...
“Measured as a percentage of revenues, financial services firms spend more on IT than any other industry,” writes Deutsche Bank’s Heike Mai. Here’s a look: Deutsche Bank “The reasons for a higher use of IT in the banking industry are manifold,” writes Mai. “Financial service firms have to fulfil exacting regulatory requirements which translate...
Instagram’s Systrom See Also You Can Now Buy Ads On Facebook Using Google’s Search Data NEVER MIND: Google Has NOT Figured Out How To Track You Even When You’re Offline What’s Truly Amazing About This Whole Instagram Fiasco Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom just updated the Instagram blog with a statement that the company would...
Microsoft may be fined as early as January 2013 by the European Union for its failure to obey an earlier agreement to offer users a “browser choice” in Windows 7. The EU antitrust regulators are close to a decision that would be one of the first issued in 2013, EU antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia...
As innovation moves into the future at warp speed, the U.S. government has struggled to keep its own rules and regulations up to date with current technology. So when Congress and the Federal Trade Commission set out to do just that with a landmark children’s online privacy law, it’s no surprise that they may...
Now that Oracle plans to gobble up yet another company for its growing portfolio of cloud-based software, the question is whether the company can chew everything it puts in its mouth. The business applications maker said Thursday that it would buy Eloqua for $871 million. Eloqua’s apps measure the effectiveness of marketing and sales...
We kinda wish that we didn’t have to spend the last GigaOM Podcast of 2012 talking about Instagram again, but they went and changed their terms of service, throwing the internet into a tizzy, so Eliza Kern helps us sort through who’s selling whose filtered photos. Then Janko Roettgers talks to us about Netflix...
As Research in Motion prepares for a big quarter with the January launch of BlackBerry 10, it’s trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of its operation, which it plans to use to help get its new platform off the ground. That was the big theme on RIM’s third quarter earnings call...
Instagram further clarified its terms of service Thursday afternoon, noting that it would be reverting to its old terms of service language that’s been active since 2010 in regards to advertising and scrapping the updated terms released earlier this week that caused so much concern among users. However, the company had already responded to user...
Red Hat today acquired ManageIQ for its IT management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ManageIQ is in the data center automation and virtualization business. Data center automation is essentially retrofitting a data center so it can have a degree of elasticity and integrate with public clouds. This means developing methods for...