How a Chinese e-commerce company racked up $3 billion in sales in just one day

When you're looking to scale quickly, it helps to be a high-growth company in a high-growth industry in a high-growth country.

High five, Marc Benioff! Salesforce.com shifts focus and beats expectations

Salesforce.com's aggressive acquisition strategy, and emphasis on all things cloud and mobile appears to be paying off.

Former HP CEO Apotheker ‘stunned’ by Autonomy fiasco, but defends the deal

HP's former CEO cleanly avoids blame over missing Autonomy's accounting issues.

Big data: a retailer’s guide to likes, tweets, reviews, customer data, and basically everything else (infographic)

Many retailers are using old dumb marketing techniques in a new smart world. And, therefore, missing out on sales.

Facebook and Twitter’s billing provider, Revstream, launches a cloud-based revenue management app on Force.com

The little-known company that provides high-end revenue lifecycle management software for Twitter and Facebook is now offering the same technology for the little guy.

Cisco buys cloud network company Meraki for sky-high amount of $1.2B

Cisco just announced its intent to buy wi-fi startup Meraki Inc. for $1.2 billion.

Balluun presents the fashion trade show that never sleeps

Wholesale fashion buying platform Balluun raises $3.8M to connect designers with retailers.

Evernote’s update for Mac has more tweaks and tucks than Joan Rivers’ face

Digital notebook Evernote has released the latest version for Mac desktops with over 100 new features.

Cisco gets serious about cloud software with $125M acquisition of Cloupia

Networking behemoth Cisco has agreed to acquire cloud software business Cloupia for $150 million.

Steve Ballmer makes case for total Windows domination

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sketched his view of technology's future in an onstage discussion with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman tonight in a wide-ranging discussion that covered everything from Surface to Windows Phone to Xbox to cloud services.

The high cost of server downtime (infographic)

Even when a service is up 99.5 percent of the time -- which might sound pretty good to non-developers -- it's down almost 44 hours in a year.

Egnyte debuts cloud-agnostic approach to storage with ‘Cloud Control’

Enterprise cloud storage startup Egnyte has launched Cloud Control, its next-gen content and sharing infrastructure product that should give its users more flexibility over cloud strategies.

Continuuity gets $10M to help developers build Hadoop apps

So you've got an idea for a "big data" application, but building it seems to be a nightmarish prospect? Continuuity is here to help.

Are you scared yet? Why cloud security keeps these 7 execs up at night

Once upon a time, you knew who to fire when a hack took down your servers: The "little weenies" running around in the basement of your company, as AlienVault's Russell Spitler put it. But that's all changing.