With just a little over a year into mobile advertising, Facebook is expected to at least corner 30% of the mobile display market this 2013. According to eMarketer, a market research organization, the social networking site can earn about $1 billion from its ad revenues for mobile phones alone. Being the second mobile advertisement publisher…
Shares of stock of EMC and VMware went up after unveiling Pivotal Initiative at a recent investors’ forum. The big data project aims to help companies find better ways to use information from Facebook and Twitter. Share prices of VMware went up to $81.37, an increase of 8.1% while prices of EMC jumped to $24.90 for…
On the occasion of the Open Compute Summit which was held from January 16 to 17 in Santa Clara, the giants of the computer industry have strides toward the goal of setting standards for the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware. The Open Compute Project (OCP) draft initiated by Facebook in April 2011…
Instagram is one of the few social-media oriented services that managed to really click these past few years. While other photo sharing sites are constantly being gobbled by larger companies and being dissolved, instagram remains strong and shows no sign of stopping, which is why it’s not surprising that everyone is now trying to copy…
Hadoop is a free Java framework for distributed applications and intensive data management. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. With Hadoop, companies discover and put into practice new techniques for analysis and retrieval of data, techniques previously impossible to implement for reasons of performance, cost and technology. As…
DataWeek 2012 Conference, the largest six-day conference held in San Francisco, California was focused on big data with good blends of panels, speakers, labs, and great new tools on the management of data. The event was an opportunity to learn, and also to compare experiences and exchange ideas with the various stakeholders. All workshops offered…
According to IHS, an analyst firm, at the rate consumers are shifting to cloud computing services, the individual subscriptions for cloud storage can reach $500M by the end of 2012. It is also predicting that the rate of growth will be double digit for the next 5 years. IHS claims that the personal subscriptions can…
Google may be taking too long to build up their Google Apps ESN (Enterprise Social Networking) features at a time when it has turned into vital part of workplace collaboration suites. Google recently started taking steps to tailor their Google+ social networking site into one that Apps users can use to improve productivity and collaboration…
Every day there are more and more companies that handle untold amounts of information, where we talk about petabytes. If we add the management of data from social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, then the concept of Big Data comes into picture. Facebook revealed some big, big stats on big data to a few…
Groupon, Facebook, and Zynga are currently having difficulties since their initial public offerings. Their losses can go as much as 70%. Currently, public cloud computing companies are not affected. This is primarily because companies like NetSuite and Salesforce.com have already proven themselves since they’ve been around since late 1990s. These companies have already proven that…