Google is reportedly bidding for crowd-sourced map app provider Waze, igniting a possible bidding war with Facebook.
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Google Facebook launch bidding war for Waze
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IBM preps SmartCloud for realtime analytics
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Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud IaaS (infrastructure as a service) for use in data reporting and analysis. "We`re the only player in the marketplace that has [a cloud service] for data-in-motion -- being able to analyze data in real time," said Bob Picciano, IBM`s general manager for Information Management.
SAP shakes up development leadership
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SAP has abruptly reorganized its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and executive board member Vishal Sikka now tapped to lead a single software development unit. Sikka has been a champion of SAP`s HANA in-memory database platform, which has been positioned as the future convergence point for all of SAP`s technologies. After Fri
Windows 8 users snub Metro apps stick to traditional Windows software
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A majority of consumer and small business Windows 8 PC users launch fewer than one "Metro" app a day, signaling that they`re spending most of their time on the classic Windows 7-style Desktop, according to data released this week.
Apple No tax gimmick left behind
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Open source development surges for Android and surprisingly iOS
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Open source developers launched 15,000 Android mobile projects in 2012, representing a 96 percent increase over 2011.
Microsoft extends Azures reach to China Japan and Australia
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Seeking to pad its billion(ish)-dollar Azure business with yuan, yen, and
Googles Penguin update lets you squeal on spammy websites
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The latest version of Google`s sophisticated anti-spam algorithm, dubbed Penguin 2.0, was announced yesterday in an official blog post from the company`s well-known webspam czar, Mike Cutts. The 2.0 label was applied, according to Cutts, because the update is a major one -- it includes changes to the underlying algorithms used to evaluate whether a website is spammy or not, not just the dataset Go
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