Cloud data-protection firm PerspecSys raises $12M, plans for global sales push

PerspecSys, the Toronto-based cloud data protection company, has closed $12 million in its second round of funding. The company plans to use the capital injection to further develop global sales and marketing efforts and continue product development.

If Home becomes popular, non-Facebook Android devs will get slaughtered

Facebook has said for years that it intends to become the very best distribution platform for mobile developers;. Today, it's turning that promise into a threat.

Samsung and Apple bought $45.3 billion in semiconductor chips in 2012, cornering 15% of the market

Both grew spectacularly, with Samsung up 28.9 percent, and Apple up 13.6 percent, while HP and Dell dropped 12.7 and 13.4 percent, respectively.

Lenovo finally tops HP in PC marketshare (at least according to Gartner)

According the most recent numbers from Gartner, Lenovo has inched past HP to control the highest stake of the PC market.

Worldwide cellphone sales fell 2.9% as users wait for iPhone 5, says Gartner

Consumer anticipation for the iPhone 5 is so high that it helped to slow global sales of mobile phones in the second quarter, according to the latest research from Gartner.

Gartner: Mobile spurs $2.1T in consumer tech spending, $2.7T by 2016

If you felt a little woozy after your latest gadget spending spree, you might want to sit down for this number: $2.1 trillion. That’s how much consumers worldwide are expected to spend this year on tech toys and services, according …

Apple restocks its shelves every 5 days, almost as often as McDonalds

If you visit an Apple store once at the beginning of a week and again at the end of the week, chances are you’re seeing a completely new set of inventory. Impressively, the company turns over its inventory every five …

Gartner: Mobile payments will top $171B this year, despite fragmentation

The current state of the mobile payment industry could at best be called slightly confounding, or, at worst, a complete mess.

But in spite of increased competition from stakeholders like Square, PayPal, Google, Mastercard, Intuit and, most recently, Verifone, the …

Tablet sales to reach 119M units in 2012, 369M in 2016

Consumers the world round have fallen so hard for the charms of tablets that sales are expected to balloon by 98 percent this year.

Research firm Gartner forecasts that tablet sales will reach 118.9 million units this year, up from …

Sales tax doesn’t change online shopping behavior (study)

Taxing online purchases would do little if anything to change consumer behavior and would not return shoppers to “main street” shops, according to a new Forrester report.

Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru writes that eight percent of survey respondents would change …

Nimbula releases new version of its cloud OS, targets $4B market

Nimbula, a company ties together public and private cloud resources in a way that companies can manage them easily, this week released the latest version of its software.

Nimbula calls itself a cloud operating system — because it helps its …

iPad to dominate tablets until 2014, says Gartner

Not that it’s a huge surprise, but it doesn’t appear that Apple’s iPad will be dethroned as king of the tablets anytime soon.

The iPad will account for 73.4 percent of worldwide tablet sales this year (down from 83 percent …

HP to acquire enterprise player Autonomy for $10.3B (updated)

HP will buy UK-based enterprise software company Autonomy for $10.3 billion, the company announced during today’s quarterly earnings call.

Autonomy shareholders will receive $42.11 a share, which is a 64 percent premium over Autonomy’s closing share price yesterday. If the …

Gartner: Smartphone sales jump 74%, Bada beats out Windows Phone

Smartphone sales continue to explode, increasing 74 percent in the second quarter compared to last year, according to research firm Gartner. But Microsoft continues to struggle with sales of phones using its Windows Phone platform, which was surpassed by Samsung’s …

Reader poll: Which pundit best summed up the stock market slide?

The pundits were out in force today as they described the big drop in the stock market. Which quote was your favorite?

“Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America,” Barack Obama said. “No matter …

Global games business to hit $112B by 2015

Spending on video games around the globe will grow from $74 billion in 2011 to $112 billion by 2015, according to market researcher Gartner.

In 2011, Gartner estimates that spending will be up 10.4 percent compared to $67 billion in …