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<title><![CDATA[Yelp unhappy with Google's service]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Yelp is unhappy with Google running its users' reviews, but it says its former suitor is unwilling to negotiate compensation.The search giant is unfairly benefiting by running Yelp's local business reviews on the Google Places page without any compensation, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman told the Telegraph newspaper. But Stoppelman says Google is offering only a take-it-or-leave-it response.&quot;We are unhappy with the way Google uses our users' review on its Places page,&quot; Stoppelman said. &quot;However, there is no solution to the problem...Google's position is that we can take ourselves out of its search index if we don't want them to use our reviews on Places...But that is not an option for us...as we get a large volume of our traffic via Google search.&quot;We just don't get any value out of our reviews appearing on Google Places and haven't been given an option other than to remove ourselves from search, how to improve this situation,&quot; he said.Google did not immediately respond to a CNET request for comment but told the Telegraph that sites like Yelp benefit from the referral traffic the search giant sends their way.&quot;Our goal with local search is to help Google users find the local information they're looking for online,&quot; Google said. &quot;Each day we send millions of customer referrals to local businesses and third-party Web sites, such as review sites, through local search. The overwhelming feedback we get from users, business owners, and Web site owners is that they value the answers and traffic they receive from local search.&quot;Google Places automatically aggregates information about businesses, including user ratings, published by third-party Web sites into a single Google-hosted Web page. Most of the information is already available on the Web, but Google's popularity and presence overshadows other listings and rating sites, thanks in part because it also links to the Internet giant's ubiquitous maps.But perhaps this apparent acrimony is just leftover hard feelings over Google's failed effort to acquire Yelp last year. Stoppelman was reportedly the one who decided to walk away from the rumored $500 million deal.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Mirasol e-readers still several months away]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>themamedizin</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the Mirasol prototypes on the show floor at CES in Las Vegas.(Credit:David Carnoy/CNET)LAS VEGAS--The e-reader may have been one of the hottest holiday gifts, with Amazon.com, Barnes &amp; Noble, Sony, and others selling millions of devices, but it was decidedly absent at this year'sCES--unless, of course, you count all theAndroid tablets floating around.The company a lot of people were watching was Qualcomm-backed Mirasol, which made a splash a year ago with its new, reflective color display technology that's energy-efficient, runs full-motion video, and can be viewed in direct sunlight. Alas, Mirasol had no product to announce, only that it was working with vendors such as Pocketbook, which sells primarily into Europe, to bring out an e-reader later this year. How much that e-reader will cost and when it will hit the market are very much up in the air. Mirasol didn't have its own booth, but a small showcase was set up in Qualcomm's booth, and the technology--intriguing as ever--was definitely getting a lot of attention. The prototypes Qualcomm was showing seem improved from earlier models the company had been teasing reporters with at previous events, and PR reps were careful to note that the video loop on the prototype's screen was indeed running at a smooth 30 fps (some reports speculated that the company was having trouble getting the frame rates up to promised full-motion speeds). A Mirasol prototype with a 5.7-inch screen running full-motion video.(Credit:David Carnoy/CNET)What was a little surprising, however, was that the company hadn't made more progress in a year. Also, the only screen size it was showing was 5.7 inches (the Kindle has a 6-inch screen, measured diagonally) and a PR rep said that the company would not be developing any larger screen sizes this year.Mirasol, the rep said, was focused on the 5.7-inch size for e-readers and was also making a big push with smaller screens for smartphones. That's obviously a much bigger market than e-readers and Qualcomm is in the process of building a $975 million factory in Taiwan to make these screens in mass quantities. Apparently, a different factory in Taiwan will make screens until the new factory goes online early next year.Iriver was one of the few manufacturers to announce a new e-reader at the show--the Story HD--and it wasn't even on the convention floor but at a hotel suite in the Wynn hotel. Iriver is using a monochrome electronic paper display made by LG (the two companies have formed a joint venture named L&amp;I Electronic Technology) and Owen Kwon from Iriver said that Mirasol currently couldn't make larger screens and his company doesn't have any plans to use the technology this year because it was unclear whether Mirasol would be ready for mass production. Kwon said Iriver would ship the Story HD in the middle of the year and that it would be competitively priced with the Kindle. But the software we saw on the prototype still seemed to be in early stage development.  Much-hyped Pixel Qi (pronounced chi) was also around and showing off some notebooks and tablets that use its non-captive LCD design, which helps you view the screen in direct sunlight and is also more energy-efficient than a traditional LCD. The Pixel Qi screen is currently available as an option on the Notion Ink Adam tablet, but seeing the technology in action for the first time, I wasn't as impressed as I thought I'd be--at least in terms of readability outdoors (just as important as the screen itself is the layer that goes on top of the screen, since anything reflective will create glare issues).The long and short of it is, as far as display technology goes, I don't think we'll get anything drastically new this year. With consumers seemingly attracted to lower-priced standalone e-readers like the Kindle at $139, there isn't much room for new technology--which usually adds a significant premium--to make its way into the market. In that sense, Mirasol may be similar to OLED, which is prohibitively expensive at larger sizes, but has steadily made inroads in the smartphone market, where it regularly appears in Samsung devices.Meanwhile, in the next few months, Apple will most likely introduce the next-generationiPad, and there's speculation that it will do something to reduce glare and make the screen more viewable outdoors. That flaw is something Amazon likes to point out when comparing the reading experience on the Kindle's e-ink screen, which is highly readable in direct sunlight, and the iPad's LCD, which gets washed out. (Barnes &amp; Noble put a special coating on the Nook Color's glass, which helps cut down the glare and improve readability outdoors, but e-ink is still far superior for outdoor reading.)What Apple comes up with may end up either hurting or helping Mirasol's chances. Either way, Qualcomm better hurry up, because as Canon and Toshiba found out with SED technology in TVs, the longer you wait, the more existing, cheaper technology improves, making your product less viable. Cheryl Goodman, director of marketing for Qualcomm's MEMS technology division, gets surrounded by the press.(Credit:David Carnoy/CNET) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Richard Branson's quest for shiny iPad stardom]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>themamedizin</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Richard Branson poses in front of the Manhattan flagship Apple Store with newsprint-covered mannequins to promote the launch of Project, his new iPad-based magazine.(Credit:Caroline McCarthy/CNET)NEW YORK--There must be something squirreled away in the human brain that is hard-wired to go absolutely bonkers at the sight of anything that's shiny, slick, and begging to be touched. That, after all, is how Apple CEO Steve Jobs sells products. But aniPad is only as good as the things you can do on it, and in this sense the device is implicitly a bit of a challenge, an Everest to climb or an English Channel to swim, for developers and entrepreneurs: What can you do on this How can you take advantage of the features it offers--the touch screen, the accelerometer, the Internet connection--to tap into that human desire for all things slick and tactile Will you succeedLeave it to Virgin Group billionaire Richard Branson--the man who wants to revolutionize the consumer airline industry on multiple continents, take tourists into space, and save the planet--to add Jobs' challenge to his to-do list. On Tuesday morning at the trendy Crosby Street Hotel, he took to the stage in a screening room to unveil Project, a monthly iPad-based publication that he calls &quot;the first truly digital magazine for creative people about creative people.&quot;Developed in collaboration with U.K. digital shop Seven Squared, Project is a flashy, multimedia-filled affair that requires a little bit of time to build familiarity. Swipe up and down to flip between &quot;pages&quot; of the same article, swipe left-to-right to switch articles, click at the bottom of the screen for links back to the table of contents and the &quot;library&quot; of Project issues (which cost $2.99 apiece), and keep an eye out for pop-up surprises like lists of Web links, video and audio clips, and cues for wacky ways to fool around with the images. One article in the premiere issue, about farm-to-table chefs in restaurants around the world, has a title page covered in &quot;dirt&quot;--rub it away on the iPad's touch screen, and you'll see the title. A feature about touring Tokyo is accompanied by a 3D flyover of Google Earth and time-lapse photography of clouds rolling over the cityscape as night falls.The cover of the debut issue of Project.(Credit:Project)On the video &quot;cover&quot; of the first Project issue is actor Jeff Bridges, star of the upcoming film &quot;Tron: Legacy,&quot; accompanied by flickering lights and static and an ambient electronic humming not unlike the background noise that runs through much of the film &quot;The Social Network.&quot; The article about Bridges himself (entitled &quot;DUDE, SERIOUSLY&quot; in a nod to his role as &quot;The Dude&quot; in the cult film &quot;The Big Lebowski&quot;) features the actor walking slowly across a beach as waves crash in trippy accelerated motion behind him.It's beautiful and speedy (though the download time for an issue tops 10 minutes, the actual experience has little lag time) with all the visual allure of an aquarium of bright tropical fish and the tactile appeal of a sandbox. The obvious issue, of course, is whether the high-tech ornamentation is so much that it actually detracts from the fact that this is, at its core, a magazine--and magazines are meant to be read. The articles themselves, as well as the messages in the souped-up advertisements for brands like Lexus and Panasonic, can come across as afterthoughts when there's so much audio-visual distraction. It's not clear whether the digital world's massive case of attention-deficit disorder will be a good or bad thing for Project.(A counterpoint to this, in turn, could be the hand-wringing a few decades back over whether computer-generated effects would kill high-quality cinema.)The media absolutely adores Richard Branson, as evidenced by the number of broadcast and still cameras poking their lenses around during Tuesday's presentation. Particularly in Branson's native U.K., they've made the whole affair into something worthy of Project's own shiny digital pages, too: an alleged horse race with News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, whose own tablet publication &quot;The Daily&quot; is reportedly launching before the end of the year. Never mind that comparing a daily newspaper to a monthly culture magazine is a bit incongruous' these two billionaires absolutely must be feuding!Branson seemed eager to shoot these allegations down while, that penchant for the slick and salacious likely ticking away in his own mind, courting the idea of a rivalry.&quot;I've read quite a bit in the past few days about a battle I've launched with a certain newspaperman. This is not a battle, it's not a war, it's the future of publishing,&quot; Branson said. &quot;If people would like to call it a battle, we'll accept that battle as a battle on quality, and I think once you see our competition you'll agree that our team wins, hands-down. It's all about choice, but a fair bit of competition doesn't hurt.&quot;Later, he referred to Virgin's executives as &quot;cheapskates,&quot; highlighting that the publication only has about 20 full-time employees, and added that they &quot;definitely haven't got a Rupert Murdoch-style advertising budget.&quot;Indeed, Project's marketing is primarily of the &quot;guerrilla&quot; variety, with Virgin installing odd newsprint-covered mannequins in different locations in major cities, with USB filed &quot;drops&quot; attached that offer access to materials for a contest to design future Project cover art. It's a strategy quite in keeping with the jet-setting creative thinkers whom Project hopes to court as its readership. The highbrow audience is one thing that Branson implied will set Project apart from its News Corp. counterpart: &quot;I have intelligence based on 30 years of reading News of the World and other newspapers that they publish,&quot; he said in reference to Murdoch's affinity for the lowbrow, &quot;that quality-wise, I think, on quality--we'll be willing to be judged.&quot;One outlet that likely doesn't see much rivalry is Apple, which has reportedly been helping out both The Daily and Project as the two publications prepare to launch. As wholly digital publications, they're some of the first big showcases of the iPad's potential as savior of the beleaguered publishing industry. So Apple, for obvious reasons, wants these ventures to succeed. Some media outlets have even tossed about the rumor that Apple has some kind of stake in The Daily.&quot;I don't believe that Jobs has an investment in The Daily, but I may be mistaken,&quot; Branson said on Tuesday. &quot;Nor does he in this project, but I think he's very supportive of both.&quot; Indeed, Apple vice president of product marketing Michael Tchao, who began his second stint at Apple last year while development of the iPad was in full steam (his original role at Apple had been in the early '90s on its failed Newton device), was in the audience as Branson unveiled Project.But even the seal of approval from Apple doesn't guarantee success--especially since Project's team has said that other tablet platforms will eventually become part of their strategy, something that loosens the currently-close ties to the iPad manufacturer.&quot;If bloggers don't like it we'll be dead very quickly,&quot; Branson admitted with regard to Project's relatively slim marketing budget and reliance on word-of-mouth buzz.And if he fails in this quest, he's obviously got a few more big projects (pun intended) to tackle. Like, you know, space travel.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Standing Cloud Raises $3 Million, Fends Off Font Snobs With New&nbsp'Logo]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Back in July, I wrote about a nifty new startup called Standing Cloud that makes it easy to set up hosted installs of dozens of cloud-based applicationsa4sa4&quot; like WordPress, Drupal, or Traca4sa4&quot; with a single click. Unfortunately, all our commenters seemed to care about was the company&amp;'s logo, which consisted of Papyrus font set against a plain white background.Now Standing Cloud is back with a new, much more attractive logo that should appease all you font critics, and it has some big news in tow: it just closed a $3 million Series B funding round led by Avalon Ventures, with participation from existing investor Foundry Group. This brings Standing Cloud&amp;'s total funding to $5 million since it was founded in 2009.Standing Cloud&amp;'s core offering lets you choose from over 60 applications to install, and it gives you the flexibility to decide which cloud hosting provider you want to use them on.  Since we last covered them, there have been some tweaks to the business model: previously, Standing Cloud charged users $19.95 per month for access to as many applications as they wanted, but users had to manage and pay for their bandwidth and hosting costs in addition to that.CEO David Jilk says that some users found this confusing, so the company has adopted a different model: users will now pay $24.95 per month per application deployment, but bandwidth costs are included. Obviously this could make things pricier if you plan to deploy multiple apps, but Standing Cloud&amp;'s value proposition is all about keeping things simple, so it&amp;'s a change that makes sense.Another change is the addition of the Standing Cloud Application Network. Jilk says that many small and medium businesses who might be interested in Standing Cloud aren&amp;'t necessarily familiar with the various applications it offers, or which ones might be best for them. So the site is building out a directory of these applications with fleshed out descriptions. Each application listing will include references to recommended consulting firms that specialize in working with that app, in case a business needs something customized.However, Jilk says that this directory of applications (which will primarily be composed of open sourced apps for now) doesn&amp;'t represent a change in Standing Cloud&amp;'s strategy. Rather, it&amp;'s a compliment to it a4&quot; if it becomes a great resource for learning about these applications, then it will inevitably drive more businesses to use Standing Cloud&amp;'s service.CrunchBase InformationStanding CloudInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cyber Monday sales crush Black Friday with $1B spent in 24 hours]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Online retailers racked up a cool $1 billion in sales on Cyber Monday a4&quot; traditionally the heaviest online holiday shopping day of the year a4&quot; and sales were up 16 percent from a year ago, according to data from comScore.Cyber Monday is typically a day when the most popular online retailers, like Amazon.com and computer hardware retailer Newegg.com, offer the most deals. It&amp;'s a way to lure in consumers that are looking to get their holiday shopping done early but don&amp;'t want to be trampled by shoppers at 4 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving.Sales at online retailers were also 59 percent higher than the roughly $650 million generated by foot-traffic directed sales on Black Friday. To date, shoppers have spent a total of around $13.5 billion for gifts and the like during the holiday season since the beginning of November.Consumers are also spending more when buying from online retailers this year. The typical shopper spent an average of $114, which is up 12 percent from typical sales last year. The number of buyers edged up only slightly, growing from 8.7 million consumers last year to 9 million this year.It seems that at least a few individuals were slacking off and getting their holiday shopping done during work, since most of the shopping occurred on computers that were connected to a workplace network. That&amp;'s pretty typical, though a4&quot; more than half of online retail sales happened at work last year as well. But as a sign of tougher times, the number of shoppers buying while at work actually fell this year. So more employees are actually buckling down and working regardless of the sweet deals happening on the Internet.Holiday sales are expected to ramp up over the next several weeks in advance of Christmas. The next three weeks are typically the best performing weeks for retailers a4&quot; especially online retailers. In 2009, retailers raked in around $5 billion each week for the three weeks leading up to Christmas.[Photo: garethjmsaunders]Next Story: On the GreenBeat: NRG looks to be big solar investor, the new GM is looking pretty green Previous Story: From GAP to the electric car: Teslaa4a4s George BlankenshipPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, e commerce, online retailCompanies: Amazon, comscore, Newegg          Tags: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, e commerce, online retailCompanies: Amazon, comscore, NeweggMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Racktivity Racks Up $8 Million To Cut Data Center Energy Costs And&nbsp'Emissions]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Racktivitya4&quot; a provider of hardware and software-as-a-service that manages power consumption within data centersa4&quot; closed an $8 million series B investment, the company announced today. The round was led by Partech International and joined by the startup&amp;'s seed investors Big Bang, along with a group of angels based in Europe. The company was founded in Belgium, and recently opened offices in Redwood City, Calif. The chief executive of Racktivity, Marcos DiMiroz, is a former Trinity Ventures partner, and serial clean tech and IT entrepreneur, who took the reigns from founder Kristof De Spiegeleer in June 2010. The company appealed to him then, and its new series B investors because, said DiMiroz: &amp;''It is all about energy costs today. They have been skyrocketing globally! At the same time, data centers have been paring down their staff to run their operations more cost efficiently. You still need human interaction within the data center, though. Our hardware and software are designed to help people manage as many data centers as they need to, remotely. There&amp;'s no other venture-backed company offering both the hardware and the software that lets you do this today.&amp;''Racktivity&amp;'s hardwarea4&quot; including &amp;''pizza box&amp;'' and vertical power distribution unitsa4&quot; is currently being reviewed and tested by Underwriter Labaratories, the de-facto authority for testing and listing electronics as safe and compliant within U.S. electrical codes. The company expects to attain UL-certification by February 2011, DiMiroz said. Within the data center, Racktivity&amp;'s hardware and software-as-a-service is used to monitor installed equipment, generate real-time reports on how it is functioning and how much power the equipment uses, then automatically power down servers and routers that are idle. With its newly attained capital, Racktivity plans to hire 20 more employees in the next year, and possibly set up manufacturing operations in the U.S. Its products are currently made in Europe. DiMiroz mentioned Racktivity plans to unveil a new &amp;''disruptive value proposition&amp;'' in the spring, but would not elaborate on what features or products this would encompass. Currently, Ractivity&amp;'s customers are data center owners and operators with 300 cabinets or more. The company also sells its wares to small and medium-sized businesses outside of this profile through a partnership with Zenith Infotech.CrunchBase InformationRacktivityPartech InternationalInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gawkera4a4s Nick Denton says serious journalism has a future &8230' but not for free]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Self-described a4Agossip merchanta4 Nick Denton isna4a4t as pessimistic about the future of old-school journalism as you might think.Denton is famous for pioneering the model of paying reporters for pageviews at his Gawker Media network of sites, essentially encouraging writers to be sensationalistic. That practice has become more widespread, as publications start to wonder about the value of articles that people dona4a4t want to read.  (Wea4a4ve incorporated elements of the system at VentureBeat, although Ia4a4ll probably get yelled at if I share the details.)Today at Business Insider&amp;'s Ignition conference, Denton admitted he has struggled with the ramifications of prioritizing popularity over everything else. (Earlier this year, he said, &amp;''I&amp;'ve created this monster.&amp;'') He said one of his favorite writers at gadget blog Gizmodo is Joel Johnson, but Johnson consistently underperformed the sitea4a4s other writers. Denton changed his measurements, looking at new visitors rather than pageviews, but even that didna4a4t help. Yet in the last month Johnson has become the most popular writer at Gizmodo, thanks to big scoops like the leaked scans from the Transportation Security Administration. Denton offered that as evidence that real reporting is starting to pay off again.a4AI pretend not to care not to care about journalism, but I sort of do,a4 he said. a4AIta4a4s no longer enough just to throw out the rehashes.a4So there will continue to be an audience for quality journalism in technology and entertainment and other high-profile industries, Denton said. He acknowledged therea4a4s a bigger challenge in making the business side work in other areas, such as foreign affairs or local investigative journalism.Still, even though Gawker became successful by branding itself as the place you go for a4Anaughtya4 and a4Awickeda4 content, Denton argued that therea4a4s room for more serious models. The catch is that the free, ad-driven system that dominates the Internet may not work for those publications. Theya4a4ll probably have to investigate subscriptions or other paid content models.As for how things are working out for Gawker, it&amp;'s focusing on big stories with the upcoming design. The company is making more than $20 million a year in revenue, Denton said. He added that he doesna4a4t think therea4a4s much point in looking too far ahead, but when asked if Gawker could eventually make $100 million a year, he said yes.[photo by Owen Thomas]Next Story: How much are new TV episodes worth to Netflix Try $100K Previous Story: 10gen gets $6.5M from Sequoia for its web database softwarePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Gizmodo, Ignition, Ignition 2010Companies: Gawker, Gawker MediaPeople: Nick Denton          Tags: Gizmodo, Ignition, Ignition 2010Companies: Gawker, Gawker MediaPeople: Nick DentonAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook CIO: Salesforce&'s database.com won&'t replace Oracle]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Salesforce&amp;'s newest product, a cloud-based database called database.com, isn&amp;'t going to unseat Oracle&amp;'s database products any time soon, according to Facebook&amp;'s chief information officer Tim Campos. He made the comments at a media luncheon at the Dreamforce 2010 conference in San Francisco today.&amp;''I don&amp;'t really see it as a replacement for Oracle,&amp;'' he said. &amp;''The only reason Oracle exists in-house is for companies that want on-premise databases.&amp;''A large part of that probably has to do with security. Many companies are reluctant to ship their data off to remote cloud servers and databases because they think it will be compromised. A lot of companies also have strict security regulations that keep them from jumping on board the cloud because of compliance issues.Campos said Facebook still uses Oracle for its on-premise databases.Salesforce has been championing the move to the cloud for some time now. The company&amp;'s CEO, Marc Benioff, even brought a customer that had a poor experience with Salesforce on stage during the keynote to try to convince him to move to cloud computing products like the company&amp;'s customer relationship management (CRM) software. The next logical step was to provide companies with a cloud-based database,which the company launched at Dreamforce 2010 this year.With the launch of database.com, it&amp;'s competing against some traditional powerhouse database providers.But Campos applauded Salesforce on its move toward being more of a development platform. That means the company is providing developers &amp;''with a few of sharp tools&amp;'' to produce a lot of web-based applications and services that range anywhere from asset management to customer relationship management (CRM) software. The company is trying to focus on being a catalyst for developers trying to make web-based applications.It&amp;'s a move that Salesforce has been focusing on with the acquisition of companies like Ruby on Rails development assistant Heroku.Next Story: GM backs hydrogen fueling stations in Hawaii &amp;8212' setting the stage for Chevy sales Previous Story: Why is Intel so coy about its new netbook and tablet groupPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cloud computing, database, database.comCompanies: Facebook, Oracle, salesforcePeople: Tim Campos          Tags: cloud computing, database, database.comCompanies: Facebook, Oracle, salesforcePeople: Tim CamposMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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