I did a double take recently after listening to Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell acknowledge that his company was ready to lose even more money in online services in the near term, if that's what it takes to catch Google.
Cuill, a search upstart founded by ex-Googlers, said Tuesday that it raised US$25 million in a second round funding led by Madrone Capital Partners. The company had previously raised US$8 million from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners.
The first public auction of shares in CRM company NetSuite closed on Wednesday evening at a price of US$26 a share -- double the original forecasts.
ZDNet Australia searches through the year that was for Google.
The director in charge of the iPhone for O2 has warned that employers may not let their workers use Apple's hotly anticipated handset as a business device.
An online video start-up launched by three Australian entrepreneurs (including,apparently, an old acquaintance of mine from university) has been bought by Google subsidiary YouTube for a reported US$15 million.
Previously, much of the business model for the in-flight connectivity market has remained up in the air -- but that could all be about to change thanks to RIM and pals.
Google has attracted a lot of attention with a new study that contradicts the accepted wisdom that hard drives are more likely to fail in cool conditions than warm ones. However, I don't think we ought to be switching off the datacentre air conditioners any time soon.
Google's plans for greener datacentres are being promoted with great fervour, but its calls for greater environmental accountability have some definite limitations.
Commonwealth Bank CIO Michael Harte this week publicly pondered popular Web technologies most IT managers must be looking at and asking "how can these make/save me money?"
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
Firm quietly working on data storage software designed to help companies find business documents scattered across their networks.
Forget Google and Zoho, it will be Microsoft that takes the online word processor to the masses.
Google's decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive.
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Google Apps has "over 10 million active users" and every day, 3,000 new businesses are signing up, according to Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise.
Google's recent foray into business applications has already attracted more than 1,000 small businesses in Australia, according to the search giant's vice president for enterprise, Dave Girouard.
Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technical operations at LinkedIn talks about facilitating online communications between its 17 million business professionals. He also discusses his past experience building and scaling data centres at Google and how it differs from his new role.
At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, panelists discuss benefits that huge companies like Google and Facebook could get from embracing open source, such as third-party developers integrating their products into new application versions and easier connectivity with emerging technologies. Panelists include Ron Yekutiel, CEO of Kaltura; Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource; and moderator Matt Asay, vice president of business development at Alfresco and a member of the CNET Blog Network.
ZDNet editor-in-chief Dan Farber and Webware.com's editor Rafe Needleman sit down with AdventNet's CEO Sridhar Vembu to find out about Zoho's office productivity suite and how the CEO plans to compete against Microsoft and Google. Farber and Needleman then analyse the company's business model and determine Zoho's chance for success in the emerging Web 2.0 office software market.
High-powered panelists discuss the evolution of content delivery in the age of convergence and the empowered consumer at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's annual conference in San Francisco. Panelists include Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, America Online CEO Jonathan Miller, Google co-founder Larry Page and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts.
Google has repackaged and enhanced its business-oriented software offerings into a paid-subscription suite known as Google Apps Premier Edition.
With excellent web browsing, email and access to apps, the HTC Hero is one of the few mobiles to truly challenge the iPhone this year.
While we like the design, Samsung needs to do more with the software. Without customisation, Android's absent features are glaringly obvious.
Google Docs is a fantastic free online application that offers some exciting features. However, by virtue of being an online application, users with a slow connection will experience lag, and Docs still doesn't contain enough functionality to be a replacement for today's mainstay office suites in most businesses.
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