Twitter is investing in building more robust analytical tools, judging by today’s acquisition of Smallthought Systems. The Vancouver-based startup is the creator of a flexible database tool called Dabble DB, as well as Trendly, a tool for filtering the traffic and behavioral data from Google Analytics. Read More »
Archive for June 2010
One of the most common mistakes companies make in developing an app is failing to create a broader marketing strategy. But without one, apps will go unnoticed. At Atimi Software, app development integrates a marketing strategy that includes both traditional marketing and media outreach. Read More »
Steve Jobs revealed at the D8 conference his vision of what the future of the Mac looks like: a Ford F250. Not in design, and maybe not in build quality, but in everyday utility. Read More »
Today on the Net: Rogers Communications gets 100,000 subscribers to sign up for TV Everywhere, Netflix’s new UI causes some trouble for Roku users and Spotify lands on TV sets for the first time in Sweden and Finland, but still has a long way to go. Read More »
The Department of Energy this morning announced the tenth award for a clean energy project under the long delayed loan guaranteed program. Oregon-based U.S. Geothermal has won the latest award, on a conditional basis, for $102.2 million. Read More »
They say you should never mess with a good thing, yet that’s exactly what Google appears to have done by adding background images to its default search page. Reactions around the web appear inflammatory, but we’re looking for your thoughts on the change in this poll. Read More »
Online video viewing is growing faster than you think. In just the past three years, the number of Americans watching online videos has grown more than 61 percent, reports Pew Internet. It translates into rigorous capacity demands on current transport networks. Read More »
Amazon’s Import/Export Service, which allows companies with large data sets to mail their files to Amazon’s cloud is now available to all. The success of the service points to several business opportunities when it comes to optimizing bandwidth, cloud portability and creating markets for big data. Read More »
Palm Pre and Pixi owners may be wondering about future updates to the webOS platform, given the looming takeover of Palm by HP. The “merger” won’t take place for a few months but it’s reasonable to wonder if existing Palm customers will receive phone updates. Read More »
India will have 150 million 3G connections by 2014, according to Wireless Intelligence. India just concluded a 3G auction (marked by bureaucratic delays) that raised about $11 billion, a big price tag which will ensure that the 3G rollouts are slow and 3G access expensive. Read More »
Akamai, in a move aimed at helping it better deliver customer websites to a wider range of mobile devices, has acquired mobile services company Velocitude to dynamically transform customer websites to fit all the different screen sizes and form factors of mobile devices. Read More »
Americans spend more on potato chips every year than energy investment, said Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr at an event on Wednesday morning for the newly created American Energy Innovation Council, which called for the U.S. government to spend $16 billion per year on energy… Read More »
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