Google said Wednesday that more than two-thirds of its employees are men and more than 60% are white, figures that a top executive said reflected a disappointing lack of diversity at the Internet giant. Google disclosed the gender and racial…
Oracle weaves Fabric for MySQL clustering
Oracle has released a framework that allows multiple copies of the MySQL database to work in tandem, making it easier for organizations to easily run live backup databases and scale MySQL across multiple servers. "The Fabric manages a farm of…
Alibaba is Coming to the North America
Alibaba Group is a privately owned Hangzhou-based group of Internet-based e-commerce businesses including business-to-business online web portals, online retail and payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services. In 2012, two of Alibaba’s portals together handled 1.1…
HP Primes Analytics Software for Real Time
HP launched new analytic software that lets companies to more efficiently query large amounts of information. But HP is bit player in a market dominated by incumbents, say analysts. HP announced new cloud-based analytics as a service built on HP's…
Google In Talks To Buy Skybox Imaging For About $1 Bln
Search engine giant Google Inc. (GOOG) is in talks to buy Skybox Imaging Inc., a satellite company that specializes in recording very detailed landscape pictures and video, for about $1 billion, TechCrunch reported citing people familiar with the matter. The…
Wipro and Net Suite Launch Business Process Management Software
Wipro, a leading Global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing company, today announced the launch of its ‘Finance and Accounting Business-Process-as-a-Service’ (F&A BPaaS) solution for enterprises developed in partnership with Net Suite, Wipro’s F&A BPaaS is a comprehensive, end-to-end business process…
Microsoft, Salesforce Said to Discuss Cloud Partnership
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) are close to an agreement that will enable customers of Microsoft’s cloud computing service to use Salesforce’s customer management programs signaling a thaw between two longtime rivals. The partnership will make Salesforce’s program…
Coming Soon to a Fridge Near you Targeted Ads
Targeted advertisements are headed to smart refrigerators, smart thermostats and other Internet-connected devices, potentially raising new privacy concerns for people who use those products. A financial report filed by Google in December and picked up Wednesday by the Wall Street…
BIG QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT)
You've heard the term and probably read stories about smart homes and devices that communicate with each other. But what makes it all connect? There is no agreed-upon definitive definition, but there is a test for determining whether something is…