Cloud Computing

Twitter opens self-service ads to everyone

Previously only available on an invite basis, the site is letting any U.S. business sign up for its ads platform

IBM launches an appliance for the ‘Internet of things’

The IBM MessageSight appliance can ingest up to 13 million MQTT messages per second

Gartner: Worldwide CRM revenue grew 12.5 percent in 2012

Salesforce.com takes over the top spot in terms of revenue, ahead of SAP

LivingSocial gets hacked, 50 million users told to reset passwords

Users' names, email addresses and passwords may have been accessed, CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy said

How big is cloud’s impact? Depends on who’s asking

Not surprisingly, vendor surveys point to higher adoption than independent researchers

Facebook buys Parse, gets into development tools business

Facebook has bought a company that provides a cloud-based app development platform

Could Privacy Protection Bills Hinder Law Enforcement?

ODCA: Virtual machines inching to portability

Moving virtual machines across different hypervisors is possible, still requires much manual intervention, a study found

Google’s data removal requests spike to over 2,000

More governments worldwide are asking the site to take down political content

Pivotal puts PaaS in the spotlight

Venture from EMC, VMware and GE could help enterprises exploit big data for new apps