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Cisco, IBM, HP Data Center Battle Heats Up
The economy is fraying everybody’s nerves, but the tone among IT industry market leaders has gotten slightly nuts of late — especially among the hardware giants. Ever since Cisco Systems announced it was getting into the mainstream server business in June, an almost-maniacal round of corporate one-upmanship has been unleashed that is truly pitting old…
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Microsoft, Yahoo Ink Ten-Year Search Deal
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc inked a 10-year Web search deal to better compete against market leader Google Inc but stopped short of combining their display advertising businesses. Shares of Yahoo, which had risen in recent weeks in anticipation of this deal, fell more than 7 percent in premarket trading, while shares of…
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IBM Acquires Ounce Labs, Bolsters App Security Offerings
IBM picked up yet another high-profile security solution developer to add into its portfolio with the announcement today that it would gobble up Ounce Labs, a Waltham, Mass.-based developer of application security testing tools. This latest buy by IBM further emphasizes the company’s commitment to developing or acquiring the capabilities to offer a fully fleshed…
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IBM to Buy Analytics Player SPSS
IBM has agreed to plunk down $1.2 billion to acquire SPSS, a maker of predictive analytics software and solutions based in Chicago. IBM says the all-cash deal, still subject to regulatory approval, to acquire SPSS will broaden its existing Information on Demand (IOD) software family and expand its range of analytics capabilities and offerings. The…
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Is Microsoft Really Playing Cupid with Matchmaking?
Following the wrap of Microsoft’s annually Worldwide Partner Conference, the software giant started asking its partners to pass around the link to a new Website for enabling peer-to-peer partnerships. It’s called Microsoft Matchmaker. The idea behind Matchmaker is relatively simple: Authorized Microsoft partners load their leads into the system to share with select or preferred…
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Bill Gates Quits Facebook — But Should You?
Here’s one of those cautionary tales about social networking: Too much can be WAY too much, even for techno-god Bill Gates. Gates quit Facebook this week. He said he’s been just deluged by invites and messages and can’t spend the time to figure out if these are people he even knows. Sound familiar? We all…