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SAP Leadership Shuffles co-CEO to Supervisory Board
SAP is under the control of CEO Bill McDermott now after co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe stepped down over the weekend to join company co-founder Hasso Plattner on the supervisory board.
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Salesforce New President is Former Oracle Executive
Oracle and Salesforce compete for enterprise customers, and now it looks like they are competing for executive talent because Salesforce has just hired Keith Block, a former Oracle executive, as its president and vice chairman.
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Facebook's IPO Goes Live Today, $38 Starting Price
Facebook starts life as a public quoted company today, creating billionaires, millionaires and new hope for those working away at tech start-ups everywhere. Follow the company's first day on the NASDAQ here.
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Facebook IPO Details: 50 Million Extra Shares, $34-$38 Launch Price
Another dollar on that price would see Facebook raising over $15 billion. However, the soon-to-be public company will settle for raising between $13 to $14.7 billion, after publishing an updated S-1 form, making its overall value somewhere between $94 and $100 billion.
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Russia Search Giant Yandex Goes Public; Raises US$ 1.3 Billion
Russia's leading search company -- and the world's seventh-biggest search engine -- has recently completed its initial public offering, opening at higher-than-expected US$ 25 per share and raising US$ 1.3 billion in the process. The Yandex NASDAQ IPO will involve about 52.2 million Class A ordinary shares, 15.
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VMWare Grabs SlideRocket, What's Behind the Presentation?
VMWare is big in a backroom service kind of way, while SlideRocket (news, site) helps those pesky end users do slick-and-groovy presentations, so why would the two get together? RocketWare? VSlide? The news that VMWare is acquiring SlideRocket is interesting, if a bit out of left field.
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AOL Buys Huffington To Boost Its Major Web Properties
Over the weekend, AOL (news, site ) picked up Huffington Post for US$ 315 million, bringing some firepower to its web strategy.
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Acquia Invades Europe as Drupal Comes Home
Drupal enterprise pushers Acquia (news, site) make a big hire in Europe to spearhead the expansion of the company's footprint on the continent. New Office, Old Home Acquia is pushing open source CMS Drupal around the world to enterprises on the back of great growth in 2010.
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HP Picks SAP Executive as New CEO
In the lofty environs of the executive suite at HP (news, site ) a new name is being engraved on the top door! In the Hot Seat After the shenanigans that saw the removal of Mark Hurd from the big chair at HP, it has taken the company a
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AOL Acquires TechCrunch for US$ 25 million, or Was it $40 million?
Some seem to hope that it's an early April Fool's Joke, but the truth came out on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt today: AOL is acquiring TechCrunch. If you aren't at TechCrunch Disrupt today in San Francisco, you can still get the scoop on what's happening -- at least what TechCrunch and AOL want you to know.
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Who Owns Data Gathered by UK Universities?
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. Fortunately, when I write a story, I'm a bit anal about going to read the source materials. So when I came across a Slashdot post by Sara Chan claiming that "scientists at universities, which are all public in the UK, can now
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Networked Insights Raises US$ 5M for Social Media Analytics
Fighting for visibility in the increasingly crowded social buzz/influencer/reputation analysis market, Networked Insights gets some further investment to be bigger and bolder.
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Microsoft And Yahoo Search Deal Gets Regulatory Approval
Microsoft (news, site) and Yahoo! (news, site) have been given the final approval by the EU to go ahead with a partnership that was agreed to last July. That partnership will see Yahoo’s search results being powered by Microsoft Bing for a cut of
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Gartner Acquires Burton Group, Provides Research to IT Professionals
December was a busy month for industry research giant Gartner. They started the month announcing the acquisition of AMR Research and they ended the month with the acquisition of the Burton Group. Same Size Different Services Now these two acquisitions are not the same, each bringing a unique
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