DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors, log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.; Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541 "Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts" Key Findings: In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware, software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)

Bernie Borges' Marketing 2.0 Social Media Book

Social Media on Ulitzer Bernie Borges' new book: Marketing 2.0: Bridging the Gap between Seller and Buyers through Social Media Marketing. Bernie's book aims to give a macro view of social media marketing with a focus on "what it is" and "how" small and medium size businesses (SMB) can develop a strategy, implement it and measure results. Marketing 2.0: Bridging the Gap between Seller and Buyers through Social Media Marketing covers these topics: Marketing 2.0 What is Web 2.0 and Social Media? Think Like a Publisher: Content Marketing The Lifecycle of Interaction in Social Media Marketing Measuring Results in Social Media Marketing Risks in Social Media Marketing Benefits of Social Media Marketing Case Studies - SMBs Succeding with Social Media We have invited Bernie Borges, the author of Marketing 2.0: Bridging the Gap between Seller and Buyers through Social Media Marketi... (more)

RTI Tells Google "No More VoIP"

Rich Tehrani (pictured) is President and Group Editor in Chief at TMC. In addition he is the Chairman of the world’s best attended VoIP event, Internet Telephony Conference & Expo. Rich covers the telephony and related businesses on an ongoing basis, and has recently been covering an interesting story involving a company known as Rates Technology Inc. and its  lawsuit against Google. Here is his exclusive report for SEO/SEM Journal: Rates Technology, Inc. (RTI) recently sued Google for patent infringement. You may be wondering just who is this company and how could they take on the Web’s favorite search engine — a company flush with cash — and hope to win? Here is everything you need to know. RTI has a suite of patents covering technology used in the transmission of Voice over IP (VoIP) calls among other things. The company collects payments fr... (more)

Pshew, Google Finally Finds Kaiser!

For a while there it looked like there was something Google couldn't find, namely its own three-foot pet python Kaiser, which it managed lose somewhere in its 300,000-square-foot New York City offices. The maintenance staff finally found the little guy safe and sound and he was sent home with his pet engineer. The mice and rats of New York can breath a sigh of relief. Google Carries Coal to Newcastle There is now a free beta Google Desktop available for the Mac that basically does what Apple's Spotlight already does and that's to index the user's drive and make it searchable. One thing it does that Spotlight doesn't is search your Gmail account if you have one. Sun Quarter Believed Weak Sun's recent flirtation with profitability may be short-lived. Sanford Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi downgraded the company Monday saying, "Our channel checks suggest that Sun's thi... (more)

FTC Probing Microsoft & Yahoo Ad Deals As Well As Google's

At press time, the Wall Street Journal was reporting that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating Microsoft's proposed $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive and Yahoo's $680 million buyout of the rest of Right Media as well as Google $3.1 billion DoubleClick deal. Neither Microsoft nor Yahoo have gotten the second request for information that Google has. War Debt Although PC units are expected to be up 10% this year, the Semiconductor Industry Association has slashed its 2007 revenue growth forecasts from 10% to 1.8%, citing the sharp decline in the ASPs of processors, DRAM chips and NAND Flash. It's figuring annual sales at $252 billion. Meanwhile, Intel is supposed to be cutting prices on its top-of-the-line Core 2 Duo chips as much as 50% ahead of AMD's Barcelona debut. Acer Blames Vista Acer, complaining the slow consumer adoption of Vista, has trimmed its PC ... (more)

Hurd Joins Murdoch's Board with a Nice View of Yahoo! from Both Sides

HP CEO Mark Hurd has joined the board of directors at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media conglomerate, which should give him a nice view of any possible Microsoft-avoiding tie-up between News Corp. and Yahoo considering HP's printer chief Vyomesh Joshi sits on Yahoo's board. Reuters notes that Hurd will get to see a bit of Tom Perkins now. He's the VC who used to be on HP's board and let the cat out of the bag about its spying caper. Reuters was told Perkins suggested Hurd to Murdoch. Ironically Hurd will serve on the corporate governance committee. Speaking of pretexting, HP just settled up with a few of the reporters it spied on for an undisclosed amount of money. There's unsettled suits lodged by still other reporters. Apple To Open Stores in New Countries Apple is going to open stores in Munich, Geneva, Zurich and Belfast. It's a little bit vague on exactly when. A... (more)

Is Yahoo! Too Large a Company to Force into Microsoft's Ways?

Is Yahoo! too large a company to force into Microsoft's ways? That's the question asked this morning by The New York Times, whose correspondents John Markoff and Matt Richtel report a Silicon Valley executive as declaring that, when it comes to overall technology mindsets, Microsoft and Yahoo! “are completely at odds with one another.” The executive in question was CEO of SideStep, and had been a Yahoo! executive in charge of shopping, auctions, travel and real estate before leaving the company in 2006. Another quoted expert is Brady Forrest, who was was part of a small music start-up acquired by Microsoft in 2000. "Yahoo! is just too big to switch over,” Forrest declares. The New York Times article raises the whole question of Yahoo!'s IT inrastructure (Yahoo! uses principally FreeBSD with Java and PHP). Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of PHP, is even an infrastructure archi... (more)

Yahoo BOSS Used To Create Powerset For Images and More

Yahoo has highlighted a few more implementations of BOSS, the search API it launched in early July that allows third party websites to incorporate Yahoo search functionality seamlessly into their sites. This is the second time Yahoo has showcased the fruits of BOSS developers. In early August, Yahoo drew attention to 4HourSearch, the Cuil knock-off formerly known as Yuil; PlayerSearch, a sports-focused search engine; Newsline, a tool for plotting news items on a timeline; and Tianamo, a 3D search visualization tool for Windows machines with Java installed. Now we’re presented with three more implementations: 123People, askBOSS, and BuildaSearch. 123People 123People is a search engine designed to help you find information about ordinary people. It supposedly returns the best results for people living in Europe, although the index includes those living in the United... (more)

Bartz Lays Down Terms

In her first public appearance Tuesday since her apotheosis Yahoo's new CEO Carol Bartz laid down terms. If there are going to be talks with Microsoft, they're going to be private, not in the press, a perimeter she's apparently already communicated to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. And Yahoo has to retain contact with the search data it generates to target ads better. It's immaterial who manages it but search and display ads, a sector where Yahoo is currently hurting, are "linked in the minds of the top 200 advertisers," she said. "We would never de-bone the company" was how she put it. And it appears that because of the economic Armageddon advertisers are desperate for Yahoo to come up with some novel ideas. Otherwise Bartz maintains that everything Yahoo's got is up for grabs except its billion-a-day e-mail, news, finance and sales force. Bartz is thinking about European ... (more)

Damn You Google, Damn You Yahoo! Why D'Ya Do This to Us?

A strange dynamic has taken hold on the internet.  Just as people expect sunshine and air to be free, they also expect internet based software applications to be free.  Ok, maybe not completely free… they agree someone should pay, just not them.  Damn you Google, damn you Yahoo! why did you do this to us? With companies left and right offering full versions of their products for free,  users have been conditioned NOT to pay for anything.  This conditioning can be seen across everything from social media sites to messaging to business applications.  The problem with this as I see it is the negative impact on innovation. Users think that they win by getting free software or services, but do they really?  If you ask me the only real winners in the free ecosystem are the investors behind well funded companies.  By locking down markets with free offerings companies can ... (more)

Ulitzer vs. Ning

My original post in late June was based on two weeks of using Ulitzer and Ning.  I've added additional thoughts after two months of use. The obvious point for me is that the sites have two different objectives for the writers.  For Ning, the writer is trying to be involved in a niche social network from scratch.  For example, I have built my own social network for marketers and salespeople called BuyerSteps.  I created BuyerSteps as a way for other professionals to join in a conversation around the 21st century buyer.  So, Ning represents a way to build a community. In the case of Ulitzer, as a writer I am focused on getting readers from within an existing audience.  There are already thousands of readers coming to the Ulitzer site, so if they are interested in my topics such as marketing, they will find my articles as well as others.  Ulitzer allows the writer the ... (more)