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Palo Alto Networks Sets IPO Price Range Of $34-$37 A Share
— Palo Alto Networks disclosed in a filing with the SEC this morning that it expects to price its initial public offering at $34 to $37 a share. The company plans to sell 6.2 million shares, including 1,512,741 from selling holders.
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RIM Apparently Not Interested In Switching To Windows Phone
— Research In Motion might be on the road to failure, but give them credit for this: they intend to do it on their own. — According to a report from Reuters, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer approached RIM in recent months about cutting …
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Why RIM Won't Be Bought: There's Not Much There There
— There's been rampant speculation that the rescue strategy for Research In Motion would be for someone to buy the company. There has been, at various times, idle speculation about a wide-range of intriguing but highly unlikely potential suitors.
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Microsoft: First Branded Tablets; Next, Their Own Smartphone?
— Microsoft's move into the tablet hardware business may be just the first step in a radical repositioning of the company's approach to the device market. — As you know by now, Microsoft on Monday held a launch event in Hollywood …
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Logitech Cutting 450 Jobs As Part Of Restructuring Plan
— Logitech late yesterday said it is cutting 450 jobs, or about 13% of its worldwide workforce, as part of a previously announced cost reduction program. The company said it will take about $35 million in pre-tax charges in the current fiscal year in connection with the cuts.
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Windows Phone To Top iOS Market Share By 2016, IDC Says
— Peaking? — Now here's a bold prediction. — By the end of 2016, according to International Data Corp., Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 will inch ahead of Apple's iOS to become the world's #2 mobile operating system.
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Quri: Startup Wants To Pay You To Take Pics While You Shop
— In the latest example of the growing fragmentation of the world of work, a new company called Quri is offering to pay shoppers for collecting pictures and other data while they shop in supermarkets, drug stores and other retail outlets.
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Seagate To Buy Storage Products Maker LaCie For At Least $186M
— Seagate this morning announced plans to acquire LaCie, a Paris-based producer of consumer data storage devices, for at least $186 million. — Seagate said it has agreed to buy a 64.5% stake in LaCie held by Philippe Spruch, the company's chairman and CEO.
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).