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  • Oracle extends SAP rivalry with Taleo buy

    Oracle is escalating its rivalry with German business-software maker SAP and plans to pay $US1.9 billion ($A1.77 billion) for Taleo Corp, a company that helps businesses hire and manage their employees.

    Written by AAP • 10 Feb. 12 09:44

  • LinkedIn's Q4 earnings strong, revenue doubles

    LinkedIn is reporting a strong fourth quarter as the online professional networking service added 14 million members. Its net income and revenue beat Wall Street's expectations.

    Written by AAP • 10 Feb. 12 09:25

  • Oracle buying Taleo for $US1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP

    Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly US$1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for US$3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 10 Feb. 12 00:28

  • Dassault Systèmes buys personal analytics site Netvibes

    3D design software company Dassault Systèmes has acquired Netvibes, a website that allows the creation of personalized dashboards combining social network updates, news alerts and RSS feeds, the companies announced Thursday.

    Written by Peter Sayer • 09 Feb. 12 23:29

  • Macquarie Telecom adds fourth data centre to AGIMO panel

    Macquarie Telecom’s (ASX: MAQ) new Intellicentre 4 (IC4) data centre has been added to the data centre facilities panel established by the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO).

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 09 Feb. 12 15:15

  • Foxtel subscriber base grows

    Foxtel has announced an increase in subscriber numbers for the second half of 2011 despite a tough consumer market.

    Written by AAP • 09 Feb. 12 10:47

  • Telstra says 1H12 NPAT up 22.9pct

    Telstra has reported a lower-than-expected first half profit and reaffirmed earnings guidance for the full year amid what it describes as a difficult macroeconomic backdrop.

    Written by AAP • 09 Feb. 12 10:39

  • Swedish e-commerce startup's execs linked to NYC sex crime

    Two Swedish nationals with the same names as top executives of e-commerce startup Klarna were arrested on Saturday in New York and charged with criminal sexual abuse.

    Written by Elizabeth Heichler • 09 Feb. 12 08:51

  • Google to pay users to track their movements online

    Amid widespread concern about its new privacy policies, Google is now facing criticism over an offer to give users Amazon gift certificates if they open their Web movements to the company in a program called Screenwise.

    Written by Cameron Scott • 09 Feb. 12 08:41

  • Salesforce.com shakes up Standard support plan features

    Salesforce.com has made a series of changes to its support services that include the removal of certain features from the Standard tier, but which the company says overall will provide a better experience for customers.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 09 Feb. 12 08:37

  • Cisco beats estimates with Q2 earnings

    Cisco, the world's largest maker of computer networking equipment, says its net income jumped 44 per cent in the latest quarter as it continues to put last year's slump behind it.

    Written by AAP • 09 Feb. 12 08:46

  • New social site Pinterest attracts enthusiasm, scrutiny

    Just as it enjoys an initial surge of popularity, a new social networking site called Pinterest is also experiencing its first bout of controversy. Observers are accusing the site of secretly embedding code in user content to generate revenue.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 09 Feb. 12 07:10

  • Google Chrome will no longer check for revoked SSL certificates online

    Google plans to remove online certificate revocation checks from future versions of Chrome, because it considers the process inefficient and slow.

    Written by Lucian Constantin • 09 Feb. 12 04:55

  • Weave open-source data visualization offers power, flexibility

    When two Boston-area organizations rolled out an interactive data visualization website last month, it represented one of the largest public uses yet for the open-source project Weave -- and more are on the way.

    Written by Sharon Machlis • 09 Feb. 12 03:03

  • Why one insurance company ditched its own hardware- for a cloud -based SAN

    Why do some enterprise managers decide to brave their way into the new and unknown of cloud-based services? Sometimes it's simply because the old technology just isn't working out that well anymore.

    Written by Ellen Messmer • 09 Feb. 12 01:29

  • Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch

    Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It announced a new Advanced Analytics product on Wednesday that ties R to its database and family of software-hardware appliances.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 09 Feb. 12 00:03

  • Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review

    The NoSQL movement has spawned a slew of alternative data stores, all of which attempt to fill voids left by traditional relational database implementations. But while it's easy to fit the various relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, DB2, and so on) under a single categorical umbrella, the NoSQL world is much more diverse, and the NoSQL label is too general. NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and Cassandra are so vastly different from each other that apples-to-apples comparisons are practically impossible. Thus, within the world of NoSQL, there are subcategories such as key-value stores, graph databases, and document-oriented stores.

    Written by Andrew Glover • 08 Feb. 12 22:15

  • Ansell profit rises, fixing IT problems

    Ansell Ltd says it is rectifying problems with its new business processing system which have resulted in the gloves and condoms supplier losing sales and customers in the key North American market.

    Written by AAP • 08 Feb. 12 13:05

  • Yahoo! chairman, three directors step down

    Yahoo! chairman Roy Bostock is stepping down from the board of the struggling internet company along with three other directors.

    Written by AAP • 08 Feb. 12 13:02

  • Dating site matches not so scientific

    Users flock to online dating sites in ever greater numbers, but despite their marketing claims, services such as Match.com and eHarmony may not be offering potential mates chosen through rigorous scientific methods, a group of psychologists and sociologists have charged.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 08 Feb. 12 08:56
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