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LinkedIn Buys ChoiceVendor, a B2B Review Specialist

LinkedIn Sept. 23 announced its second acquisition, purchasing business ratings startup ChoiceVendor for an undisclosed sum.The company, founded by CEO Yan-David Erlich and Vice...

Facebook Outage Triggered by Database Software Error

The outage that darkened Facebook for two and a half hours Sept. 23 was caused by a software flaw in its database clusters, the...

Oracle Puts Chip Makers, Software Vendors on Shopping List

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is still in an acquisitive mood, and he now could be setting his sights on buying a semiconductor company.At a...

AeroHive Plans WiFi Networks for Free

AeroHive Plans WiFi Networks for Free by Wayne Rash Test Floor Plan This is the floor plan of the imaginary office created for testing the AeroHive WiFi...

Dell Hires Cisco Exec to Lead Its Networking Business

Dell has tapped a Cisco Systems executive to run its networking business.Dario Zamarian, who was Cisco's vice president of systems and network management, will...

GSA Holds Great Power in Picking Government Cloud Computing Contract Winner

When Clint Boulton wrote about the competition for the cloud services proposals that have gone to the General Services Administration, he correctly pointed out...

Box.net Android App Manages Cloud Content for Enterprises

Box.net, whose software is used by more than 4 million users and 60,000 businesses to store and manage files, has built an Android application...

Google Cheers FCC’s Freeing of TV Airwaves

Google rooted on the Federal Communications Commission, which Sept. 23 freed up the so-called "white spaces," or vacant airwaves between TV channels that can...

Facebook CEO Gives $100M to N.J. Schools Before Unflattering Movie Opens

What better way to smooth over a Hollywood-cooked public relations disaster than by feeding $100 million to schools in need?Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg-who is...

EMC, Cloudera Partner for Big Data Management and Analytics

EMC is partnering with Cloudera to help organizations manage and analyze big data.The two companies plan to integrate the data warehousing and analytics technology...