Big data and emerging data integration capabilities make it possible to
generate insights from vast quantities of data, something that was not
possible before and ultimately changing the way companies use information.
The big data industry is seeing a boost in development and adaption recently,
even though the technology was created years ago. This boost is driven by
ever increasing amounts of data and the need to process it in flight and
integrate with traditional data repositories, all with scalability and
performance in mind. Today's market requirements are to process petabytes of
data in milliseconds without impacting enterprise data warehouses.
Big data (map/reduce) combined with new data management technologies enable
Business Intelligence vendors to operate on large volumes of data and even
virtually integrate the data with traditional datawarehouses. IT depar... (more)
Microsoft has signed an NDA with Yahoo so it can look at its books, the New
York Times reported Wednesday citing a person briefed on the matter.
The move could translate into Redmond making a bid for the dysfunctional
portal.
Microsoft apparently got around Yahoo's "no crosstalk" stipulation preventing
potential buyers from forming a consortium by doing its talking beforehand.
Private equity houses Silver Lake, KKR and TPG Capital have also reportedly
signed NDAs.
Reuters reported last month that Microsoft could help finance a consortium
led by Silver Lake and the Canadian Pensi... (more)
After the market closed Tuesday, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, who's been
generally considered a pimple on the ass of progress since turning down
Microsoft's handsome $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo four years ago, resigned
from the Yahoo board and "all other positions with the company."
That includes his board seats at Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd,
Yahoo's prized Asian assets, as well as his quixotic title of "chief Yahoo."
Yahoo owns 40% of Alibaba, a position valued at around $14 billion, the bulk
of its current $19 billion market cap.
It's unclear what provoked the ... (more)
Remember InterDigital? That's the Pennsylvania patent-licensing company that
hired Evercore Partners and Barclays Capital last summer to sell its patents,
raising punters hopes that Google would buy it to console itself for losing
the $4.5 billion Nortel mobile patent auction to Apple, Microsoft and
friends.
Players bid its stock up 50 bucks to a high of $82.50 in three days on such
speculation little suspecting Google would turn around and buy Motorola
Mobility and its patents a few weeks later for $12.5 billion.
Well, Monday evening InterDigital's board announced that it was gi... (more)
TreeHouse Interactive, a provider of on-demand marketing automation
and partner relationship management (PRM) solutions, on Thursday
announced its partnership with integrated content marketing firm Ventana
New Media. The partnership combines content marketing syndication
capabilities of the Ventana New Media Engine while tapping into TreeHouse’s
Marketing View marketing automation system features that include lead
nurturing, content marketing library, Conversion Intelligence and Reveal Web
Analytics functionality. The combination gives marketers the ability to drive
explosive d... (more)
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