Salesforce.com buys Clipboard in exit for ex-Microsoft researcher: Service to shut down June 30 – GeekWire

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  Clipboard has been acquired by Salesforce and will apparently shut down sometime in June. What will happen now with it. Your guess is as good as mine. Salesforce.com has purchased Clipboard, the Seattle startup led by former Microsoft researcher Gary Flake which drew comparison to Pinterest. It appears to be an “acquihire” situation as [...]

10 Upcoming Technology That May Change The World

  We have seen great leaps in digital technology in past the past five years. Smartphones, cloud computing, multi-touch tablets, these are all innovations that revolutionized the way we live and work. However, believe it or not, we are just getting started. Technology will get even better. In the future, we could live like how [...]

:: 20+ Tools To Supercharge Your Dropbox ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy Dropbox is a powerful cloud service but it is more than just a website for online storage. Dropbox has many apps that work together with it to enhance your Dropbox experience. See on www.hongkiat.com

Dreamforce 2012: Salesforce introduces new social software for marketers, Marketing Cloud

Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, today unveiled the Salesforce Marketing Cloud, the most comprehensive suite for social marketing. Marketing Cloud is the first suite to unify social listening, content, engagement, advertising, workflow, automation and measurement. Together these technologies will transform marketing – from the CMO to the community manager – for the social revolution. [...]

Microsoft Wins Big with Windows Azure Internet TV Deal in China

Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform won a strong endorsement Monday when PPTV, which claims to be China’s leading Internet TV service provider, signed on to launch its platform on top of Windows Azure’s new Media Services offering. Specifically, PPTV will launch its PPTV Asia TV Networks (ATN) platform on Windows Azure, marking both an important [...]

Mojix Uses Hadoop-based Big Data Analytics For RFID | Cloud …

See on Scoop.it – Technology In Media After leaving NASA, Dr. Sadr extended his work in wireless communications to RFID and founded Mojix to deliver RFID solutions to customers in the automotive, distribution, manufacturing, oil & gas and retail verticals. #RFID See on cloud-computing-today.com

Top Five Gotchas for Monitoring Applications in the Cloud | Cloud …

See on Scoop.it – all about cloud computing The good news is, monitoring application performance in the cloud is hardly a new concept for AppDynamics as we address all of these requirements with flying colors. … See on cloudcomputing.sys-con.com

How to cut 70 percent of your IT budget in one year

See on Scoop.it – Enterprise Architecture Precise’s Zohar Gilad explains how his company shaved more than $2 million from its annual IT budget by migrating its IT infrastructure and applications to the cloud. See on gigaom.com

Security Spending Among Small Businesses Tops $19 Billion: AMI

See on Scoop.it – Technology In Media “Security is a complex issue with rapidly changing permutations. Widespread lack of technical resources and expertise is leading to an increasing desire to outsource the problem among small and medium businesses,” … See on leomoo.com

5 Reasons Why Your Company Is Safer in the Cloud

See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards Sony, Walgreens, Best Buy, Citibank. What dubious connection do these well-known companies share? All of them fell victim to major, headline-making data breaches in 2011. When data breaches happen to big companies, it’s natural for small businesses to take notice. Events like these create the impression that data–particularly data stored [...]

How big is the cloud?

It is patently clear that the big boys — Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon — are maneuvering for a mighty battle over cloud supremacy. But just how big is the cloud?   From the article..   Last month, ExtremeTech revealed to you the true scale of internet porn. At any one time, streaming adult videos [...]

SAP To Acquire Ariba For $4.3 Billion

Business software giant SAP announced today that it will acquire Ariba’s cloud -based business commerce network for approximately $4.3 billion.   From the article.   “The cloud has profoundly changed the way people interact. The impact will be even greater as enterprises connect and collaborate in new ways with their global networks of customers and [...]