What’s to look forward to in tech for 2011? Here are a few: Consolidation in enterprise computing, a check-in shakeout (Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley pictured) and a surge in crowd-sourcing businesses.
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On-demand-software giant Salesforce.com just acquired a cloud software startup called Heroku for $212 million in cash. That’s par for the course these days as cloud computing goes from buzzword to reality. And venture capitalis…
As year-end nears, investors are in for a surprise about which stocks in the S&P 500 spearheaded the unexpectedly robust upswing in 2010. Hint: Cummins is the only economy-driven name in the bunch. Plus: Goldman Sachs on how 20…
As it looks for ways to grow, Salesforce.com is targeting another big market: databases. Its new offering, Database.com, looks to be a direct threat to Oracle. Maybe its time for Oracle to finally get serious about cloud comput…
Cloud computing is the new hot trend, but anyone business that has tried to move itself into the cloud has generally been in for a shock. Yes, the cloud may be cheaper than owning servers, but it has its own painful issues. Ent…