Internet marketing company WordStream compared Google and Facebook marketing models and advertising performance. Even if internet coverage of both the giants is impressive, with big G reaching 90% of  the entire internet population and FB 51%, when it comes to advertising performance Google is clearly winning the fight with a performance that can be 36 times [...]

Fastcompany.com annual report for the most innovative companies in the world – an interesting picture, as always, with a massive presence of internet driven brands. In the top 10 we find Apple #1, Facebook #2, Google #3, but not only as 8 of 10 are web driven or web related. These are the concrete [...]

Over the weekend, SAP announced that it was going to purchase a Bay area company that is both a SaaS model as well as uses cloud software.  It has looked like only a matter of time before the sharks started circling over the smaller cloud software companies as it is cheaper for them to just [...]

Cisco estimates global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, a 66 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR. One zettabyte is equal to a sextillion bytes or a trillion gigabytes―1.6 zettabytes is approximately equivalent to:

22 trillion hours of streaming music.
5 trillion hours of business [...]

On November 8, a long-living botnet of more than 4,000,000 bots was taken down by the FBI and Estonian police in cooperation with Trend Micro and a number of other industry partners.
In this operation, dubbed “Operation Ghost Click” by the FBI, two data centers in New York City and Chicago were raided and a command [...]

Finally it happened. A man who created a bogus stock price tracker app for the iPhone that was in fact malware has been thrown out of Apple’s developer program. That would seem uncontroversial until you discover the app was designed to highlight a security flaw rather than cause damage or steal data.
Charlie Miller was told [...]

Today, Google announced a change to its search algorithm that the company says will impact 35% of Web searches. The change builds on top of its previous “Caffeine” update in order to deliver more up-to-date and relevant search results, specifically those in areas where freshness matters. This includes things like recent events, hot topics, current [...]

The Global Innovation Index (GII) is an initiative created by INSEAD Business School since 2007 and supported by important partners like the The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) of the United Nations and The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. The report includes 125 countries for aspects like innovation, infrastructures, human capital, [...]

Worldwide security software revenue totaled $16.5 billion in 2010, a 12 percent increase from 2009 revenue of $14.7 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The 2010 results show that overall vendor revenue demonstrated a rebound in growth after a sharp fall in performance in 2009 due to the slow economy and tight IT budgets.
“Products within the [...]