Archives: 2011 April
Russian search engine Yandex seeks $1 billion Nasdaq IPO (Reuters)
April 29th, 2011, No Comments
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Yandex, Russia's most popular Internet search engine, plans to raise up to $ 1 billion IPO on Nasdaq, said on Thursday. The company said some of the shares will be issued by the parent company Yandex NV and part will be sold by existing shareholders. The IPO is organized by Deutsche Bank, [...]
VMware Buys Another Slice of the Cloud With SlideRocket (PC World)
April 29th, 2011, No Comments
In a surprise move, virtualization and cloud infrastructure specialist VMware has acquired online presentation tool slide rocket. VMware bought Zimbra Collaboration Suite e-mail earlier this year and this latest acquisition shows VMware is investing a claim on the market cloud productivity. Right now there is a complicated chess game that takes place in terms of [...]
Survey Finds Mobile Services Influence Buying Habits (NewsFactor)
April 29th, 2011, No Comments
How do smartphones fit into buying decisions? That's the key question behind a new survey undertaken by — who else? — Google, whose name is now synonymous with online advertising. The survey, conducted with independent marketing firm Ipsos OTX, asked 5,013 U.S. adult smartphone users through the end of last year about their mobile habits [...]
YouTube Cofounders Will Rebuild Yahoo’s Delicious (NewsFactor)
April 29th, 2011, No Comments
YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen is clicked Delicious. The duo plans to continue the service that allows users to save, share and discover online content. Financial terms were not disclosed. Delicious is in danger of dying. Yahoo has set a deadline of July 2011, to sell or close the site. Delicious Hurley and [...]
Time Warner Cable sees Web future as 1Q tops views (AP)
April 29th, 2011, No Comments
Time Warner Cable Inc.’s high-speed Internet service overshadowed its core cable TV business as a boost in broadband subscribers contributed to a 52 percent increase in first-quarter net income. The company is focusing more on developing technology around Web-delivered video, suggesting that it sees a future providing Internet access, and supplanting fears that people could [...]
Apple Buys iCloud.com, Streaming Music Service Finally Coming? (PC Magazine)
April 29th, 2011, No Comments
If you had the name of an Apple cloud storage service thinking, what would you call it? Do not think too hard, really. Apple has reportedly bought the domain for iCloud.com, strengthening rumors that Apple is ready to go, a cloud-based music storage for iTunes users. According to GigaOm, the news broke, iCloud.com was previously [...]
What Does Sony Owe Consumers After PSN Nightmare? (PC World)
April 28th, 2011, No Comments
What responsibility does Sony have to the 77 million Playstation Network customers who found out this week – days after the fact – that their personal data, online account info and credit card information were stolen by identity thieves? "When I see something like this, I want to scream," says Florida identity theft expert Denise [...]
EBay first-quarter profit rises 20 percent (AP)
April 28th, 2011, No Comments
This Aprill 22, 2011 photo, flowers adorn the eBay logo outside eBay headquarters in San Jose, California, Friday, April 22, 2011. EBay Inc reports San Francisco – eBay Inc. on Wednesday said first quarter profit rose 20 percent on strong growth at its namesake e-commerce and further proliferation of the PayPal payment. Revenue from the [...]
Tech and Tweets Saving Lives as Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Again [VIDEO] (Mashable)
April 28th, 2011, No Comments
[More from Mashable: Social media has little influence on Online Retail Shop [studio]] Tornados are wreaking havoc throughout the south again, and the second television station ABC 33/40, dozens of people have died so far. Social media and technology is helping to spread the message, perhaps saved many lives. Watch the dramatic video of a [...]
Mobile Ads Are Extraordinarily Effective, Says Google (PC World)
April 28th, 2011, No Comments
Smartphone users are unusually responsive to advertising, according to survey results Google has released. And this could be because searches on smartphones are weighted toward finding local information. Forty-two percent of users click on mobile ads they like, found the Mobile Movement: Understanding Smartphone Users survey. Of those, 49 percent go on to make a [...]
