Oracle and SAP have not been shy about making strategic and expensive acquisitions during the past several years. The numerous deals have been both big and small—some costing billions, others millions—and have filled out specific vertical-industry product offerings that allowed the enterprise software vendors to...
In honor of today being National Stem Cell Awareness Day, Gov. Jim Doyle reaffirmed Wisconsin’s role as a major force in stem cell research. Doyle spokesperson Lee Sensenbrenner said Doyle has always been an advocate of stem cell research. “Starting with his first campaign, the governor all...
California's stem cell agency has teamed with Maryland's stem cell organization in the first interstate agreement designed to speed research progress through collaboration among scientists. The agreement, announced Tuesday by leaders of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the Maryland Technology Development Corp., will encourage...
If Steve Jobs could take on and tame the keiretsu-bound music industy, then he's got more than enough will and opportunity to lure into his web the brilliant but sometimes bumbling players in the enterprise mobility space. And what an opportunity it is: in a...
When the President of the United States warns schoolchildren to watch what they say and do on Facebook, you know that we've got a problem...
President Obama on Monday outlined a strategy for spurring technology and business innovation in the United States. The plan seeks to create a national environment that's conducive to entrepreneurship and that provides the requisite "tools" for innovation, supported by more than $100 billion in federal...
Dell's $3.9 billion acquisition of Perot Systems will help fortify Dell's pursuit of new customers in the healthcare industry, a sector that's been getting a lot of attention from Dell--and its competitors--in recent months. The federal government's $20 billion HITECH stimulus program is creating significant demand...
Venture capital funding is at a historic low, yet at least eight software startups announced VC funding in the past two weeks for a total of more than $60 million. Their products are all very different, but they have one thing in common: they're delivered...
A recent bug in Google Apps allowed students at several colleges to read each other's email messages and some were even able to see another student's entire inbox. The issue occurred at a small handful of colleges, admitted Rajen Sheth, senior product manager for Google...
It started as a simple term project for an MIT class on ethics and law on the electronic frontier. Two students partnered up to take on the latest Internet fad: the online social networks that were exploding into the mainstream. With people signing up in droves...