SAP's cloud business is growing thanks to the acquisition of online HR software provider SuccessFactors, according to the company's latest financial results. Last December SAP acquired SuccessFactors for $3.4bn, as a key part of SAP's ...
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Following a trend some have dubbed"acqu-hiring",both Facebook and Google said they are taking over startups more for their talented staff than their products and services. Acrylic Software,an app developer for iOS devices and the Mac,said ...
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Apple and Motorola Mobility,now a subsidiary of Google,have separately appealed the June decision of a U.S.federal judge to throw out their patent infringement case,according to reports Saturday. Judge Richard Posner of the U.S.District ...
Tags: Apple, Motorola, patent infringement case, U.S.federal judge
Microsoft is test driving a new version of its Office Web Apps suite,whose applications are hosted by the vendor and accessed by users via a web browser. Improvements in the suite,which includes online versions of Word,Excel,PowerPoint ...
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Microsoft on Thursday released code for its Entity Framework database mapping tool via open source in an effort to increase transparency. The move is being handled by Microsoft Open Technologies,a company subsidiary launched in April to ...
Fraudsters exchanged 12 million pieces of personal information online in the first quarter of 2012, an increase of 300% since 2010, according to credit-checking firm Experian. The company said many people were unaware their identity had ...
Tags: Online Identity Theft, credit-checking, credit cards, passwords
Security experts say the breach that led to the publication of the login details of more than 453,000 Yahoo and other companies'customers,highlights common enterprise security failings. The hacking group,known as D33Ds Company,said they ...
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The news-sharing website Digg will be acquired by technology investment firm Betaworks, according to blog posts put out by both companies. Betaworks paid $500,000 for the social media pioneer that once secured $45 million in financial ...
Tags: news-sharing website, Digg, Betaworks, social media, news-sharing app
Wikipedia plans to ask users to provide suggestions to improve articles on its website, which could be incorporated into the articles by its editors, Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit charitable organization that operates the site, said. ...
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Dropbox, the most popular consumer online storage service, announced Tuesday that it is doubling the capacity of its plans but keeping its prices the same. The company is also now offering a new 500GB service plan. Dropbox's service plans ...
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A new Web-based social engineering attack that relies on malicious Java applets attempts to install backdoors on Windows, Linux and Mac computers, according to security researchers from antivirus vendors F-Secure and Kaspersky Lab. The ...
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Microsoft today said it will officially launch Windows 8 in late October when it starts selling upgrades and its hardware partners begin selling PCs,tablets and hybrid devices powered by the new operating system. Windows 8 is also on ...
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An app known as"Find and Call"has been targeting users of both the iPhone App Store and Google's Play market,say researchers at security firm Kaspersky Lab. At first,it was thought to be an SMS worm spread through text messages,rather ...
Tags: Find and Call, app, iPhone App Store, Google's Play market, security
Smartphones running Google's Android operating system(OS)have been hijacked by a botnet,according to a Microsoft researcher. Researcher Terry Zink said he had come across spam being sent from Yahoo e-mail servers by Android ...
Tags: Smartphones, Google's Android OS, Microsoft researcher, botnet
New email-based attacks, some of which target the aerospace industry, are distributing new variants of the Sykipot information stealing malware, according to researchers from security firm AlienVault. "We have detected a new wave of ...