SaaS News
Oracle buying Taleo for $1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP
Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly $1.9 billion, the company announced...
Oracle buying Taleo for US$1.9 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...
Growth in Indian IT services exports to slow down, says Nasscom
Growth in India's exports of IT services, business process outsourcing and related services is forecast to drop to 11 to 14 percent in the Indian...
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...
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....
Outsourcer Cognizant posts strong revenue and profit growth despite uncertain market
Cognizant Technology Solutions posted strong growth in revenue and profits in the fourth quarter of 2011, indicating that a few focused players...
Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review
MongoDB shines with broad programming language support, SQL-like queries, and out-of-the-box scaling
HP moves load testing software to the cloud
With the release of its new LoadRunner in the Cloud application load testing solution, HP aims to provide the flexibility of software-as-a-service in...
Red Hat launches storage appliance for Amazon's cloud
Red Hat has announced the Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which can take advantage of Amazon's cloud while at the same...
India builds a mega data center
IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data center in India that it says is the largest in that country in terms of size and...
OnLive's train wreck: Office on the iPad
The OnLive Desktop service shows just how wrong desktop virtualization can be
SAP community portal launch date still unclear due to bugs
Serious technical problems that have delayed the rollout of an upgrade to SAP's community portal are persisting, to the point where the company...
Engineer's wife 'ferocious' in Obama Q&A on H-1Bs
The White House is following up on an offer made by President Barack Obama this week to help find a job for an unemployed semiconductor engineer in...
Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell's software acquisition plans
Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with...
H-1B workers are better paid, more educated, study finds
H-1B workers are better educated than U.S. born workers and earn more, according to a new study by an independent research group.
SaaS, APTs and Asymmetric Risk Take Spotlight at Security Threats 2012
What's your stance on SaaS? Is your perimeter as secure as you think? How can the insurance calculus on asymmetric risk illuminate your...
SAP-SuccessFactors deal delayed as US regulators conduct investigation
SAP's US$3.4 billion purchase of cloud software vendor SuccessFactors has been delayed indefinitely while a U.S. regulatory body investigates the...
Alfresco 4.0 heads for the cloud
In anticipation of offering its open-source content management software as a service, Alfresco has upgraded its namesake product to work with...
U.S. firms should disclose offshore hiring, says lawmaker
A newly filed U.S. House bill would require U.S. public companies to disclose how many employees they have in the U.S. and overseas.
Prison sentences in Pirate Bay trial made final as Supreme Court refuses hearing
The Swedish Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from the founders of The Pirate Bay against prison sentences and fines imposed by the Swedish Court...
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