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Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
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$30/year to backup app data. I wonder if cloud to cloud stuff will soon take on the acronym c2c. AFAIK, this only backs up google apps. What about other apps?
Telecom Insights
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Lower demand for PBX systems is not driven from a macroeconomic business cycle or some other temporary event. Telecom VARs are experiencing a much more microeconomic shift in technology that could better be classified as permanent, structural impairment to forward demand. The majority of Telecom VARs will cease to exist in their present form 24 months from now.
LinkedIn Beats The Street, Q4 Revenue Up 105 Percent To $167.7M
Revenue from Marketing Solutions products totaled $49.5 million, an increase of 77% compared to the fourth quarter of 2010 and represented 30% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared to 34% in the fourth quarter of 2010. Premium Subscriptions revenue totaled $33.3 million, an increase of 87% compared to the fourth quarter of 2010 and was 20% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared to 22% in the fourth quarter of 2010.
By geographic area, revenue from the U.S. totaled $112 million, and represented 67% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011. Revenue from international markets totaled $55.8 million, and represented 33% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011.
via LinkedIn Beats The Street, Q4 Revenue Up 105 Percent To $167.7M | TechCrunch.
HDD Pricewatch: Three Months Into the Thai Floods
Some drives appear to have been more severely impacted than others. For example, the Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB is currently priced at $429.99, a 138% increase over its pre-flood price of $179.99. The Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 is selling for double the price at the beginning of October. Let’s check out similar data for mobile oriented hard drives.
via HDD Pricewatch: Three Months Into the Thai Floods – TechSpot Guides.
Groupon scoops up Silicon Valley startup Adku
Adku was founded in San Francisco a year and a half ago by a group of former Google employees. It specializes in using data to craft personalized shopping experiences on the Web and has financial backing from high-profile venture capital firms such as Greylock Partners and Battery Ventures. The latter firm is also an investor in Groupon.
via Groupon scoops up Silicon Valley startup Adku – chicagotribune.com.
From www.adku.com
Adku started a year and a half ago from our passion for big data and a desire to create products that would instantly and automatically give users a more personalized experience. We had ambitious goals and some of the most rewarding and busy days of our lives. We were also fortunate to assemble an amazing team of engineers and investors and create something special.
Google to start hanging Internet cables today in KCK
The BPU is owned by the Unified Government of Wyandotte County, which penned the original agreement that secured the Google Fiber project — something more than 1,100 American communities actively lobbied for — for Kansas City, Kan.
That agreement had made the unusual stipulation that Google would be able to hang its wires, for free, in the upper part of the utility poles typically reserved for electrical lines. Utility companies sometimes attach their own communication cables on that part of the poles, but rarely allow third parties access to the space.
via Google to start hanging Internet cables today in KCK – KansasCity.com.
Why the House spectrum bill should be ditched
I’ve also read that the House bill bars the FCC from paying for spectrum and then opening it up for unlicensed use. Can you comment on that?
I was the guy who created the idea of unlicensed spectrum. Several technologists and economists came to me and said that we need spectrum for short hops between computers and cable connections. That technology became known as Wi-Fi and it completely transformed the Internet experience, as everybody who has a computer knows.
via Why the House spectrum bill should be ditched: Q&A with Reed Hundt.
Pinterest online bulletin board soars as social media darling
Pinterest went unnoticed for almost a year. Then it caught fire.
By December 2011, the number of U.S. unique visitors to Pinterest soared to 7.5 million, up from 418,000 in May, according to comScore Inc., a Chicago-based Internet research firm. That is a steeper ascent in traffic than the early days of Facebook, Twitter or MySpace, said comScore analyst Andrew Lipsman.
via Pinterest online bulletin board soars as social media darling – chicagotribune.com.
Facebook’s operations: A look at the IT risks
Third parties need to deliver. Facebook relies on a series of third party providers—notably software as a service providers. Providers to Facebook include Salesforce.com, NetSuite and Oracle to name a few, we’ve been told.
via Facebook’s operations: A look at the IT risks | ZDNet.
How is salesforce.com a provider to facebook?