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Cloud, consumers give Skype enterprise boost
News Cloud computing revolution and consumers driving IT adoption provide opportunity for VoIP player to shake off non-enterprise grade label, says Asia-Pacific exec.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Cloud computing, Web services, Communications, Skype Technologies S.A., Phone, Small And Medium Enterprise, IP, Cloud Computing, Small And Medium Business
Gunning for an elephant in Silicon Valley
News Tiny Arista, started by a Sun co-founder, is challenging Cisco with superfast networking gear.
Tags: Data Management, Database management, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Hewlett-Packard Co., Google Inc., network, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Equinix, software, Cisco Systems Inc.
Verizon: Who needs the iPhone?
News To stay ahead of AT&T and Apple, Verizon is placing a big bet on Android smartphones and other new gadgets.
Tags: Smart phones, Google Android, Apple Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Google Inc., Phone, Wireless company, Google Android, Droid, Android
Highest IT salaries: San Francisco, London
News Figures from PayScale suggest, however, that pay levels may decline this year. Also in decline: bonuses.
Tags: Benefits, HR policies and procedures, help desk, IT Salary, PayScale, Valley, Salary, Worker, London, software
Microsoft cuts 800 more jobs
News The latest workers to have their jobs eliminated are being notified, in what Microsoft said completes personnel reductions announced earlier this year.
Tags: Layoffs, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Money, job, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, Small Business, layoff, Silicon Valley
Ning officially launches apps platform
News Build-your-own-social-network service makes public a platform that lets users embed more than 90 apps and widgets for things like donation collections or ticket sales.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Google OpenSocial, Forbes, Marc Andreessen, social networking, online store, Silicon Valley, Web 2.0
Barnes & Noble hit with suit over Nook
News A Cupertino, Calif.-based start-up claims the bookseller misappropriated its trade secrets in its design of a similar e-reader.
Tags: Copyright, Barnes & Noble Inc., e-reader, California, Nook, Alex, Amazon.com Inc., E-book, Cupertino, marketing
Sun to lay off another 3,000 employees
News In preparation for its takeover by Oracle, server maker says it expects to cut about 10 percent of its global workforce over next 12 months.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IBM Corp., restructuring, restructuring charge, job, European Commission, Business Strategies & Functions, Larry Ellison, Workforce, Sun Microsystems Inc.
IBM vs. SAS: Battle over data analysis software
News Amid heightened competition to sell data analysis software, closely held SAS Institute says it will fend off threats from rivals IBM, SAP, and Oracle.
Tags: IBM Corp., SAS Institute, Accenture Ltd., SAP AG, software, revenue, software company, Sales, Oracle Corp., data analysis
eBay ex-CEO to make Calif. gubernatorial bid official
News Former CEO of eBay is expected to officially declare her candidacy for governor of California on Tuesday.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, eBay Inc., Republican, Governor, Internet, Sen.
Silicon Valley jobs dip, green tech grows
News New report also shows region's per capita income fell last year for the first time since 2003. But green tech jobs continued to rise.
Tags: Layoffs, Recruiting, Green IT, housing market, solar system, commercial property, venture capital, job loss, hardware company, financial
Why don't we want to pay our teachers more?
Blogs In March 2007, I got the opportunity to visit the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. It was interesting to visit ...
Google data liberation project adds Docs, Sites
News Google says it wants to make it easy for users to export their data in hopes of satisfying customers, as well as critics who contend it has too much power.
Tags: Data Management, Databases, User Data, business strategy, Facebook, Silicon Valley, Internet, Google Docs, Internet company, incentive
Report: Google readying its checkbook
News Google thought startups were overpriced earlier in the year, but its recent purchase of On2 Technologies may be a sign that it's once again in the acquisition market.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Charlie Rose, Video, Cloud Computing, Nikkei, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Eric Schmidt, Google Apps, acquisition
Baidu CEO touts growth of China's search engine
News Robin Li tells Stanford students to embrace tough decisions when running a startup, in discussion that centered on entrepreneurship in the tough Chinese market.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Search, Palo Alto, venture capital, Baidu.com Inc., Search Result, China, Internet, Internet company
