Google’s $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility today shows that the company is all-in with Android, paying a 63-percent premium to acquire Motorola. Google says it will run Motorola as a separ...

The classic B2B company is often sales-driven or product-driven. Professional service firms often rely on the power of the rain-maker salespersons’ contacts to drive their growth. In those firms, m...

With the Google announcement that it intends to buy Motorola Mobility, the Microsoft vs. Motorola patent battle just took a new turn.

Tweet Friction is one of the greatest obstacles to your conversion process, and though most marketers currently have some idea of what Friction is, many are only seeing half the picture. When asking m...

We have written about VM security vendor Reflex Systems here back in May. Today they announced new extensions to their tools to handle VM capacity planning analysis. It is also their first try at comp...

Guest post by Catherine Jones Google is the main driver of search engine traffic and quality content is the main stay that is used by Google to rank sites. When Google makes changes in its algorithm,...

TweetSinglegain has compiled this infographic that compares Facebook with Google+. From the very beginning of its launch, there has been much debate whether Google+ will be an actual threat to Faceboo...

When it comes to improving website conversion, not every CEO, product manager, in-house SEO or sales director fully understands CRO, at least, not where to start, or what to do first. It’s a big ini...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Pay-per-click (PPC) a...

Apica, a load testing and performance-monitoring provider for cloud and mobile applications, announced its highly effective cloud application testing and monitoring technologies will be available to A...

We're all familiar with the 9-layer OSI model - 7 layers of technology + Politics and Religions. This is the stack that makes up the Internet. Cloud Computing uses the same underlying technologies, b...

Every tech founder thinks he or she runs a lean startup. But what exactly does that mean? In the video interview above Eric Ries, who came up with the term The Lean Startup and is the author of an...

BUILD cometh! As Microsoft’s new developer event is now just one month away, it’s time to buckle down and dig into the event and to ask ourselves what might be coming, and why it matters. The even...

In the wake of news recently that software and computers are being compromised by hackers and rogue states left right and centre (not to mention the recent attacks on Citibank and Sony) it’s clearly...

I was recently approached by Fast Company to comment on “crisis management” at startups in the wake of the Airbnb “ranksackgate” story. I agreed to do the interview because the story was about...

What do Egypt’s former president, Hosni Mubarak and Lotus Notes have in common? Middle East dictators and enterprise software solutions do not, on the surface, appear to have a lot of shared charact...

“Have you ever had a failed startup?” I asked Mark Wachen, the managing director of DreamIt Ventures’ New York accelerator program. He laughs, “Well, in the mid 1990s, I had what one might...

Not too long ago, Om Malik blogged “the social Web mimics the way we are in the real world … in this new kind of social web, the defining characteristic is us.” A great observation, but how tru...

HostingCon wrapped up this week in downtown San Diego and we found it was a great opportunity for us to do some learnin, networkin, and party-throwin. We invited vendors, partners, potential partners,...

Conferences, Fun Stuff, Humor. San Diego HostingCon 2011: Schwagtastic. 08.10.11 | 1 Comment | Posted by Jared. The hard part is going to a booth and trying to act like youre interested in more than a...