Enterprise Applications

Japan’s Rakuten continues Amazon pursuit, will buy US logistics firm

Japan's largest online retailer said it will acquire Webgistix, an online third-party shipping service for retailers

Facebook sets Sept. 12 deadline for moving games to local currencies

A new local-currency API is designed to give game developers more flexibility in how they price items

Windows Server 2012 R2 bulks up on storage and networking

Automated tiering, deduplication and a self-service cloud portal are among the new features in this Windows Server OS update

Advertising group close to mobile privacy guidelines

An FTC commissioner calls the Digital Advertising Alliance a success story in self-regulation

Researchers use Wi-Fi and gestures to make a ‘smart home’

University of Washington researchers have developed a new gestural recognition technology based on Wi-Fi signals

Zooka, a neat iPad Bluetooth speaker, and a review of tools for wire-framing user interfaces

SAP buys e-commerce vendor Hybris in strike back at Oracle, Salesforce.com

The deal will give SAP an 'omni-channel' e-commerce offering

SQL Server 2014 hastens transaction processing

Microsoft's next relational database management system will come with built-in in-memory technologies

Big Switch lowers forecast for OpenDaylight SDN effort

OpenFlow pioneer scales down role in Cisco-IBM founded software-defined networking group

Amazon.com sets up portal in India, will only service other retailers

The company will be offering selling and fulfillment services in the country to Indian retailers