Cynthia Harvey

Earlier this month, reports surfaced that Facebook was in talks to buy travel app Waze. Now, anonymous sources are saying that Google has offered a competing bid. Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Douglas MacMillan, Brian Womack and Ari Levy reported, “Google Inc. (GOOG), maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up […]

For its first quarter, Salesforce.com reported that revenues increased 28 percent, meeting Wall Street expectations. However, the company’s guidance for upcoming quarters was lower than analysts had anticipated, which sent the stock price down. TechCrunch’s Alex Williams reported, “Salesforce.com met analyst expectations for its first quarter with non-GAAP earnings per share of 10 cents. Total […]

Unnamed sources are telling various media outlets that the federal trade commission (FTC) is looking into Google’s display advertising business to see if the company is engaging in anti-competitive behavior. The agency only recently ended a lengthy antitrust investigation of Google’s search business. Bloomberg’s Brian Womack and Sara Forden reported, “Google Inc. is facing a […]

In its latest quarterly earnings filing, HP reported that its revenue and profits dropped considerably. However, the news was still better than Wall Street had expected, leading to a sharp rise in the company’s share price. CNNMoney’s Julianne Pepitone observed, “Hewlett-Packard is still struggling to turn itself around. But here’s the good news for HP […]

If you’re looking for a place to put a data center, the U.S. is the safest option. So says a new report that ranked thirty countries on various factors related to business risk. InfoWorld’s Agam Shah reported, “Last year the U.S. was the least [risky] place in the world to open a data center, according […]

The open source community offers a wide array of options to assist you, whether you’re tracking your personal bank accounts, managing your small business, setting up an online shop or monitoring finances for a large enterprise. Like much of the software industry, financial software is in the midst of great change. While many consumers and […]

Lenovo has reported its earnings for the fourth fiscal quarter, and they show dramatic growth. The China-based firm saw big increases in revenue and profits, despite a global slump in PC sales. Bloomberg reported, “Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), the world’s second-biggest maker of personal computers, reported a 90 percent gain in fourth-quarter profit after increasing […]

Twitter is rolling out an optional, new two-factor authentication process that will make it tougher for hackers to take over Twitter accounts. The new feature comes in the wake of several high-profile incidents where news media Twitter feeds were hijacked. USA Today’s Brett Molina reported, “Twitter has added two-factor authentication to its social network, bolstering […]

Google has rolled out a new conversational search feature in the latest version of its Chrome browser, and many are calling it “impressive.” After clicking a microphone in the Google search box, users can speak a question, and Google will respond, not with a list of related websites, but with an audio answer to the […]

Gartner has released a new report that analyzes the market for IT operations and management software. While IBM and CA still lead the pack of vendors, they are losing market share to Microsoft, VMware and several small firms. In its press release, Gartner reported, “Worldwide IT operations management (ITOM) software revenue totaled $18 billion in […]