| After Amazon, how many clouds do we need? | |
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With news that Google and Microsoft plan to take on the Amazon Web Services monolith with infrastructure services of their own, you have to ask: How many clouds do we need? |
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| China finally gives blessing to Google’s Motorola buy | |
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Google has finally received approval from China to complete its purchase of Motorola Mobility, Google said Saturday. That paves the way for Google to integrate Motorola, though it remains to be seen exactly how it wants to use the phone maker. The deal is expected to close in the next week. |
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| The cost of losing a customer’s trust | |
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Preserving consumer trust gets a lot of lip service. But a new report from the World Economic Forum actually attempts to translate its value into dollars and cents. |
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| SpaceX launch scrubbed | |
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The anticipated launch of the SpaceX rocket, slated for 4:55 a.m eastern time Saturday, was aborted at the last possible second. |
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| Android this week: Hot home screens; more Nexus partners; Galaxy S III pre-orders | |
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Even with manufacturer “skins”, Android tablet home screens haven’t been much more useful than those on Android smartphones, even though the slates have larger displays. One third-party software developer wants to change that and it’s using Kickstarter to fund the effort. A $5 pledge will get you a copy of Chameleon; an intelligent, customizable home screen app for Android tablets. |
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| Facebook doesn’t want world domination: it needs it | |
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In many ways Facebook is a very American success: forged at Harvard, warmed up in the crucible of Silicon Valley, and now reaching boiling point by becoming one of the nation’s most valuable companies. But it’s also a very international business, too, with 900 million users spread all around the world. |
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| Facebook’s foreign foes: five countries to conquer for new growth | |
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After growth slowed just in time for its IPO, Facebook must look overseas for a jump-start. Target countries are easy to see. ”Now there are only five markets where Facebook is not the #1 social networking site,” a comScore spokesperson tells paidContent. |
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| 7 stories to read this weekend | |
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Has Facebook fatigue set in? Are you sick and tired of seeing Mark Zuckerberg’s face all the time on blogs, in newspapers and on television? Relax, I have some good reading material for you and it doesn’t have anything to do with Facebook. |
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| A journey through a water cleaning plant in Brazil | |
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About an hour drive outside of the packed streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and into the sprawling Sorocaba region, GE has quietly been leading the way on clean water technology. There at GE’s Brazilian water filtration plant, the company develops mobile (containerized) water reverse osmosis machines, and also mixes chemicals in huge vats for water treatment applications, and cleans waste water in a large outdoor pit. |
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