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  • Yahoo on Tumblr: We won't 'screw it up'

    Yahoo has confirmed widespread reports that it will acquire the popular blogging service Tumblr, and also promised not to "screw it up." The deal is worth about US$1.1 billion, nearly all in cash.

  • Dell profit dives 79 percent on falling PC sales

    Dell reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue Thursday as CEO Michael Dell continues his fight to take the company private.

  • Tibco offers free R to the enterprise

    Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine.

  • Google eases Android app development with a new IDE

    Google has introduced an IDE (integrated developer environment) aimed at easing development of Android apps.

  • SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem

    Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in both building out HANA's capabilities as well as attracting developers and partners to HANA.

  • SAP expands reach of app store, looks to improve reviews

    You know you're not in iTunes anymore when the app you're eyeing has a US$1,050 price tag, but SAP is nonetheless expanding its online shopping experience in a bid to entice its customers to purchase enterprise software the way they shop on their smartphones.

  • Facebook to design an open source switch

    As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.

  • VMware sells WaveMaker assets to Pramati

    A little more than two years after purchasing Java tool vendor WaveMaker, VMware has sold the assets of the company to the Pramati software engineering firm.

  • Hadoop beefs up search with MapR, Cloudera releases

    Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information.

  • London Stock Exchange's AIM is a 'joke', says Alfresco CTO

    The capital markets in the UK are not ready for growth in high-tech companies, according to John Newton, CTO and founder of open-source content management firm Alfresco.

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  • HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now

    During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it's been powered almost entirely by Hadoop.

  • Gamification is failing to meet business objectives: Gartner

    By 2015, 40 percent of Global 1000 organisations will use gamification as the primary mechanism to transform business operations, according to Gartner, but before then 80 percent of current gamified applications will fail ? primarily due to poor design.

  • 11 predictions for enterprise software in 2013

    The end of each year sparks an occasion for rumination on the past, as well as a longing gaze into the future. We shined up our crystal ball, rubbed our chin for a while, and sought opinions from industry analysts on what the future holds for the enterprise software market.

  • iPhone 5 shows optimum enterprise smartphone not yet been developed

    The mobile device market has always been a vibrant place, but up to now has been the playground of a number of very successful specialists. Successively, the market has been dominated by the likes of Nokia, Motorola, RIM and Palm. These hardware specialists had their day and sank back, some disappearing altogether from the market.

  • Spare cloud capacity creates opportunities for CIOs

    Cloud computing is becoming a mainstream technology. However, cloud providers are beginning to see price pressure to reduce their costs to remain competitive.

  • Guys, where are your workflow engines? Use them to improve software development

    Workflow engines help ensure enterprise application development stays on track -- if you know how to use them

  • Oh, the games companies play

    For most of history, there has been a strict separation between work and play. But just as enterprise technology is becoming more social, it's also becoming more fun. Today, the software in our workplace is easier to use, more visually appealing and more rewarding. It engages us more and appeals to our competitive instincts. It also encourages us to engage with others.

  • What's next for Dell?

    Dell's formation of a new software group last week could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.

  • The year the landscape for enterprise software changed forever

    It's a stretch to call 2011 a truly transformative year for enterprise software, given all the old warts that remain, from large-scale IT project failures to creaky legacy systems that will take years and great expense to replace with the latest-and-greatest.

  • The complete guide to running Windows on a Mac

    Mac OS X is a great operating system for most tasks, but some enterprise software just won't run on anything but Windows. This guide will show you how to get Windows 7 running on your Mac. And since Windows 8 Developer Preview was just released a few weeks ago, it made sense to include this as well to spare you the early adopter pains I had.

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