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Friday, 21st October 2011

Can Hulu Save Nintendo From Apple?

Hulu Plus, the paid subscription offering from the premium video streaming site Hulu, will be available on the Nintendo Wii console and 3DS handheld system by the end of the year, the company announced. Hulu Plus joins Netflix as the second video streaming service available on Nintendo gaming consoles. Both are already available on competing…

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Groupon's "IPO Baby" Could Be $9B Less

In an SEC filing earlier today, Chicago-based daily deals site Groupon announced that they plan to sell 30 million shares at $16 to $18 each. Groupon is raising between $480 million and $540 million, setting the company's valuation at $11.4 billion. It will trade on NASDAQ as 'GRPN.'

Alicia Eler comments

Amazon Spins Up Microsoft SQL Server 2012 on AWS for Testing

Want to test out Microsoft SQL Server 2012 ("Denali") without having to download and install it? Amazon and Microsoft have put together a EC2 AMI that makes it possible to spin up Denali with minimal hassle. The EC2 AMI includes Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP3) of SQL Server 2012. Why go with the AMI…

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Mobile Developer Component Store Chupa Exits Private Beta

There is a new entrant into the mobile component app store market. Chupa, an Italy-based startup, has released its mobile component store out of private beta and it includes tools for native and mobile Web application development with support for some of the major development frameworks. Chupa follows in the footsteps of Appcelerator, which…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Stanford: Move the Cloud from Disk to DRAM

If you were to give a moment's thought to the question of what's keeping high-volume storage centers -- especially the ones with cloud architectures -- from replacing their multiple, redundant disk arrays with memory, you'd have time left over after you'd concluded the answer was cost. But what if the cost differentiator was getting smaller…

Scott M. Fulton comments

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