The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreThere’s a longish piece in the Wall Street Journal today on how Facebook is working with big advertisers and agencies, as it…
Read MoreIn a clash of enterprise social collaboration, Salesforce has the bigger announcement, but product doesn’t ship till the second half of 2013.…
Read MoreGroupon delivered quarterly revenue figures in the middle of its guidance, but that was below Wall Street expectations. Revenue grew 45 percent…
Read MoreZynga is in turmoil. Since its IPO, Zynga stock has cratered, and it lost its COO. Its emerging mobile strategy has failed to impress. With increasing competition, it’s worth understanding whether Zynga’s troubles are unique to the company, or whether it is social gaming itself that is struggling.…
Read MoreYahoo revealed in a filing that it might reevaluate its plan to return to shareholders the $4 billion it’s collecting from selling…
Read MoreGoogle invited some search watchers to a breakfast yesterday where it told a story of how it’s tying together some features it…
Read MoreRegular readers know I’m not religiously opposed to so-called content farms – businesses that create content to match search keywords – but…
Read MoreIt has passed into conventional wisdom that both Facebook and Zynga have mobile “issues.” Today’s Wall Street Journal rehashes Zynga’s mobile woes.…
Read MoreLast week, Facebook and Twitter generated consternation within their respective ecosystems. These uproars illustrate key differences in the two dominant social media platforms. Facebook APIs channel data and technology services, but Twitter’s all about the data.…
Read MoreIn the wake of Facebook and Zynga, there’s at least one social tech company that’s pleasing Wall Street. (Yelp is doing okay,…
Read MoreToday, Facebook joins Twitter in generating discussion, angry words, and hurt feelings around application-platform ecosystems. Mathew Ingram wonders, is platform Darwinism just…
Read MoreIf you think Twitter’s done a lot of damage to itself with the brouhaha over its temporary blocking of an Olympics critic,…
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