
nivio has announced it has secured $21 million in funding, hot on the heels of its US launch at Macworld|iWorld.

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has announced it has received two governance, risk and compliance (GRC) Technology Innovation Awards from Corporate Integrity for its “bow-tie” builder, part of the SAP® BusinessObjects™ Risk Management application, and its mobile GRC applications, which include the SAP® GRC Access Approver and SAP® GRC Policy Survey mobile apps. Corporate Integrity, a respected analyst firm focused on helping organizations understand and [...]

A number of prognosticators have decreed that blogs are in varying degrees of death, fueled last year by Pew Research Center studies in 2010 and 2011, which suggested that young people are gravitating toward social networking; and by study from The Center for Marketing Research(UMass – Dartmouth) that suggested corporations are following suit. When I look at the [...]

Salesforce.com , the enterprise cloud computing company, has announced that its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2012 results will be released on Thursday, February 23, 2012, after the close of the market. The company will host a conference call at 2:00 PM (PT) / 5:00 PM (ET) to discuss the financial results with the investment community. A live web broadcast [...]

Now every business can deliver personalized customer service through Twitter, Facebook, phone, email and web. Desk.com puts a mobile help desk in every employee’s pocket, letting companies help customers anywhere, anytime. Thousands of fast-growing companies, including Bonobos, Klout, and Spotify, are wowing their customers using Desk.com. It is available today, starting at $49 per month Salesforce.com, [...]

CA Technologies has announced CA Private Cloud Accelerator for Vblock™ Platforms, a new solution that drives Business Service Innovation by enabling IT to provide rapid, predictable and secure provisioning and delivery of cloud infrastructure and critical IT and business services. This is the company’s fifth solution certified for use with VCE Vblock Infrastructure Platforms, all of which are based on [...]
A couple of firsts in the smartphone market developed in Q4 2011, now that most of the major handset manufacturers have reported their results. Apple topped the smartphone market, finally Android suffers its first decline in share The 4th quarter totaled 150 million smartphones shipped, representing a record high penetration of 36% of [...]

Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, has announced it has completed an $85 million funding round, with European group Weather Investment II providing the majority of the round.
Privacy Forum will Feature U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Brill and Digital Industry Leaders from Comcast, eBay Inc., Intel, Facebook, AT&T, and Mastercard Worldwide The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a non-profit cybersecurity awareness and education organization and official coordinator of Data Privacy Day, has announced that it will celebrate Data Privacy Day 2012 by hosting [...]
Top Global Trends for 2012: Leading Futurist Predicts What’s Next
Leading futurist, author and business adviser Dr. James Canton, CEO, Institute for Global Futures, has released a report on the top global trends for 2012. The Global Futures Forecast 2012 is an annual trend report that predicts the newest developments coming in the year. Organizations worldwide use this yearly forecast as a barometer for what challenges, [...]