Following Vitrue buy, Oracle to acquire social monitoring biz Collective Intellect

June 5, 2012 8:39 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Oracle has agreed to buy social media monitoring startup Collective Intellect, further showing that it wants to own the social management space after recently agreeing to buy Vitrue for $300 million.

In light of Salesforce’s recent purchase of Buddy Media …

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg explains why Facebook is pro-gay

June 5, 2012 8:19 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

At the GLAAD Media Awards last weekend, Facebook was recognized for its support and protection of the LGBT community over the past couple years.

But why, you ask, would an ostensibly neutral, public platform want to support and protect any …

Samsung to compete with Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony via Gaikai cloud gaming

June 5, 2012 8:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

Samsung plans to enter the game business through a cloud-gaming service that is powered by game-streaming startup Gaikai.

The Korean electronics giant plans to announce the service at next week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). It could be a big change …

Microsoft confirms Zune’s death, long live Xbox Music

June 5, 2012 7:59 AM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

As of yesterday, the only music available on Microsoft’s digital media platform Zune are funeral procession songs.

The technology/gaming giant has confirmed that the Zune brand will be heading to the graveyard, according to the New York Times. All Zune-related …

Uh oh: Facebook faces another lawsuit over misleading info before IPO

June 5, 2012 6:55 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Social networking giant Facebook will face another lawsuit from investors contending that the company and banks misled them during the IPO, according to a CNET report.

Facebook had its IPO in mid-May and by all accounts, it was a botched …

Dell debuts new Inspiron laptop family for back-to-school

June 5, 2012 6:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

Dell unveiled a new line of Inspiron laptops today for back-to-school purchases. The models use some of Intel’s newest family of Ivy Bridge processors, which combine a microprocessor and graphics on a single chip.

The new models include the Inspiron …

Are you good on video? Your next job may depend on it

June 5, 2012 6:00 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Forget the suit, tie, arriving ten minutes early, and chatting up the secretary. All those staples of your standard in-person job interview may soon be endangered species in the job search ecosystem as the video recruiting space continues to heat …

Identified is LinkedIn for the cool kids

June 5, 2012 4:00 AM Sarah Mitroff
Sarah Mitroff

While LinkedIn has become the gold standard of resume and career-building sites, the service is too boring and bland for today’s young professionals. So says the co-founder of Identified, a social career site aimed directly at the fresh college graduates …

Facebook flop means hard times ahead for startups — Y Combinator’s Paul Graham is worried

June 5, 2012 12:31 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Paul Graham is the genius behind Y Combinator, one of the first startup incubators and the birthplace of immediately recognizable companies such as Reddit, Scribd, Disqus, Dropbox, Posterous, and many, many more. So if he gets worried, people listen.

Right …

4 ways developers will use SmartGlass to enhance Xbox 360 experiences

June 5, 2012 12:02 AM Dan "Shoe" Hsu
Dan "Shoe" Hsu

Here are four ways developers plan on using SmartGlass, a software-based application that extends Xbox 360 gaming and viewing experiences onto smartphones and tablets.

Clarizen lands $12M from Vintage Partners to spice up project management apps

June 5, 2012 12:00 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Social collaboration and project management startup Clarizen has raised $12 million in its fifth round of funding to expand and improve the user experience of its software, the company announced Tuesday.

While the company sounds like it’s an allergy drug, …

Intuit shows Square, Paypal how the big boys handle sales with new GoPayment integration

June 5, 2012 12:00 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

While Square and PayPal have received quite a bit of hype for their mobile credit card payment solutions, they’re still just “point of sale-lite,” according to Intuit’s mobile payments and point of sale (POS) head Trevor Dryer.

Mobile credit card …

Groupon now worth less than Google would have paid for it in 2010

June 4, 2012 8:22 PM Dylan Tweney
Dylan Tweney

Groupon's stock price has taken a beating lately, and when it closed today at $8.95, it brought the valuation of the company to a mere $5.78 billion. That's less than Google reportedly offered for the company in 2010.

Dropping phones: iPhone 4S v. Samsung Galaxy S III

June 4, 2012 6:10 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Everyone likes a good Apple versus Android video, right? Well, SquareTrade, which appropriately provides extended warranties on your technology, did a drop test of the iPhone 4S versus the Samsung Galaxy S III. Get ready for some communications carnage.

SquareTrade …

BYOD: The downside is beginning to show

June 4, 2012 5:35 PM Lorenz Jakober, Compuware

Guest Post

The bring-your-own-device trend has taken off, based largely on the popularity of iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. If there was ever a clear example of the consumerization of business technology, this is it, as witnessed by the sheer news …

Funding daily: Put a (customized) ring on it

June 4, 2012 5:21 PM Sarah Mitroff
Sarah Mitroff

Merry Monday, Funding Daily readers. Below is your funding news for the day. Don’t forget to subscribe to the Deals feed above to stay up to date on funding news. If you’ve got news to send our way, shoot it …

Who’s a patent troll now? Oracle joins Google and Apple in Lodsys patent fights

June 4, 2012 5:08 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

This one goes in the I’m-not-sure-what-to think category. Oracle, the company that just failed in its attempt to sue Google for violating dubious-sounding patents relating to Java technologies acquired in the Sun takeover, is now suing Lodsys, which has somewhat …

Apple attempts to quell BYOD fears with iOS guidelines

June 4, 2012 3:13 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Apple has released an iOS security guide to help those IT professionals who may not be in Apple’s developer community but still need to wrangle in the iPhones and iPads that employees bring to work.

It’s widely known now that …