Organization Will Harness Power of Tech Industry to Create Jobs, Improve City San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee today joined tech industry leaders to announce the launch of San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology & Innovation (sf.citi), an organization that will leverage the collective power of the tech sector into a force for civic action in…
The world’s largest companies are set to unveils a slew of new products at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show taking place in Las Vegas Jan 10-13. Social media agency Social Radius, created Start-up Debut a small gathering organized around CES that took place Sunday night at Mandalay Bay’s Foundation Room, where about 20 small…
Paragon conducted a fair research on cloud Level 3 Communications and Akamai. This was after IT companies became more concentrated on web content delivery and real-time, high-speed streaming as the demand for it raised sky high. Content-focused companies became centered on cloud computing solutions because they saw its promising customer appeal. This was also due…
Telligent, the social community software company, announced today its acquisition of San Francisco based online community software maker, Leverage Software. Patrick Brandt, Telligent CEO, said “We are particularly thrilled to gain the leading cloud technology, people-centered design, prestigious customer list and employee talent that Leverage brings. Telligent and Leverage have roots as pure-play social community…
Zynga, the San Francisco based company which specializes in Facebook games, priced its initial public offering late Thursday at $10 per share, raising $1 billion with a company value of about $7 billion. This offering makes it the largest Internet-related IPO since Google went public in 2004 with $1.4 billion. The price was at the top of expectation which…
Salesforce.com announced the recent expansion of its social enterprise cloud platform with the acquisition of Rypple, a provider of a social performance management app. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed but the company said Rypple will be rebranded “Successforce” and integrated into the existing ecosystem of Salesforce enterprise SaaS applications. Rypple is…
Several happenings marked Microsoft’s week as they unveiled their new Windows 8 App store. Other than this a revamp of Xbox Live Dashboard took place and a new four-year partnership agreement with HP was also recently signed. The new business solutions will be the integration of Microsoft’s cloud products that include Lync Server 2010, Microsoft…
Gartner predicts cloud computing will rise as the most influential factor in terms of technology and economy. It will continue to be about applications and cloud services in 2012. Experts say that the cloud’s leasing scheme of digitized IT services, assets and business solutions will boost small to large business enterprises. This is a result…
For a decade now, Marc Benioff had to deal with the comments that his company Salesforce.com had been fired with. Recently, however, Salesforce received a sincere flattery from its rivals when most of these companies started to acquire more firms to set up their own cloud platform, which is a pioneer strategy from Salesforce. One…
Some of the cloud predictions for 2012 include huge cloud computing pullouts, IT skills shortage and government control and regulation for social media and networking. 2011 was a year to reckon for the IT industry because of the huge effect of cloud computing in most business solutions. This even became unprecedented because of the participation…