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Ford to Open Research Lab in Silicon Valley Ford said the lab will become a "hub to develop a wide spectrum of partnerships with established and startup tech firms and with universities in the area, such as Stanford." - Ford Motor Co., whose vehicles have become rolling computers thanks to partnerships with Microsoft, Google, Bluetooth and others, announced Jan. 6 that it plans to open a research lab near Stanford University to get closer to IT innovators. The Dearborn, Mich.-based automaker said that the Palo... Amazon Could Miss Fourth-Quarter Sales Target, Goldman Sachs Warns Despite strong sales of electronics and a generally robust holiday shopping season, Amazon may miss Q4 revenue targets. - A report from financial services firm Goldman Sachs warns that online retailer Amazon.com could miss its fourth-quarter sales estimates due to a slowdown in online shopping growth, despite impressive sales of the companys Kindle Fire tablet and family of e-readers. Goldman Sachs analyst Heath... Twitter Redesign Courts Businesses, Catches Up With Facebook, Google+ Twitter's changes to the online and mobile versions of the microblogging site include a simplified design to make it easier to connect with others. - Social networking company Twitter announced a slew of changes to the online and mobile versions of the microblogging site Dec. 8, including a simplified design to make it easier to connect with others. The company also updated the TweetDeck desktop application to be consistent with the new ver... Harmon.ie for SharePoint 3.0 Offers Microsoft, Lotus Support The edition enables Notes users to bring SharePoint functionality into their email environment by uniting the platforms. - Social email software provider Harmon.ie announced the availability of the Lotus Notes edition of Harmon.ie for SharePoint 3.0, a platform that aggregates Microsoft SharePoint collaboration and social tools into an email sidebar for easier access. The edition enables Notes users to bring SharePo... Microsoft, Yahoo Acquisition Rumors Swirl Microsoft could be in talks to acquire Yahoo, according to Reuters. Microsoft has no plans to acquire Yahoo, counters Bloomberg. Whos right? - Microsoft has no plans to acquire Yahoo, according to a new Bloomberg report. Bloomberg drew its news from “two people familiar with the matter,” who refuted an earlier report from Reuters that the software giant was seriously considering a bid for the Web-portal company. That Reuters report... North America Accounts for Two-Thirds of World SaaS Sales: Gartner Worldwide software as a service revenue is on track to surpass the $12 billion level in 2011, which computes to a 20.7 percent increase over 2010's record of $10 billion, researchers said. - Cloud service and infrastructure-related sales have been documented as zooming up the marketing charts at a dizzying clip up 21 percent in total revenue year over year according to IT market researcher Gartner. Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue is on track to surpass the $12 billio... Twitter Share Button Drives 7 Times More Exposure: BrightEdge According to SEO expert firm BrightEdge, Websites with Twitter share buttons get seven times more social exposure than sites that do not. - BrightEdge, provider of an enterprise-class SEO platform that helps brands rise above the increasing clutter of the Web, said a first-of-its-kind, in-depth analysis of more than four million tweets shows pages that display Twitter share buttons get seven times the social media mentions than ... Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Capture Adult Audience: Pew Report A Pew Research report found social networking sites are gaining traction with adult Internet users. - Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are capturing a larger share of the adult population than ever before, according to a report from the Pew Research Centers Internet and American Life Project. Two-thirds of adult Internet users (65 percent) now say they use a social networking... Amazon Web Services ElastiCache Launches Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the release of Amazon ElastiCache, a new Web service for running an in-memory cache for apps on the AWS cloud. - Amazon Web Services has announced Amazon ElastiCache, a new Web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate and scale an in-memory cache for Web applications running in the AWS cloud. Amazon officials said the new service improves the performance of web applications by enabling customers to r... Yahoo Launches WebPlayer Beta Yahoo has delivered a beta of its new Yahoo WebPlayer, a Web-based media player written in HTML and JavaScript. - @font-face { font-family: "Times"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal div.Section1 Yahoo has announced the beta release of its Yahoo WebPlayer, a new Web-based media player written in HTML and JavaScript. The Yahoo WebPlayer supports a variet...

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