Alibaba buys mobile browser firm UCWeb, gains 500 million users

	Alibaba buys mobile browser firm UCWeb, gains 500 million users | Badgeville aims to make child's play out of software deployment
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	State of the Network: 2014 Exclusive research from Network World shows that cloud and mobility are gaining in importance. Read More WHITE PAPER: Google Apps 14 Cloud Email Solutions Ranked & Rated 27% of the world's business inboxes now live in the cloud with adoption rates predicted to soar in the next few years. In this report, research firm, The Radicati Group, highlights the top 14 cloud business email solutions. Learn why Google Apps was rated the leader of the pack. Learn more! In this Issue Alibaba buys mobile browser firm UCWeb, gains 500 million users Badgeville aims to make child's play out of software deployment Mobile app data collection poses risks for enterprises, Gartner says Microsoft challenges US warrant to turn over emails held overseas Evernote hit by denial of service attack HP assembles 'federation' of Helion cloud providers Google pays $500 million to buy satellite maker Skybox Imaging Cisco: Broadband providers should not treat all bits the same PayPal chief joins Facebook to strengthen mobile messaging Windows gets the GitHub tool it deserves WHITE PAPER: Polycom Remote Collaboration Challenges and Strategies to Overcome Download this survey to learn what 5,000 business professionals around the world say are their biggest collaboration challenges--and discover the strategies they deploy to overcome them. Learn more >> Alibaba buys mobile browser firm UCWeb, gains 500 million users China's Alibaba Group is buying UCWeb, one of the nation's top mobile browser companies, in a deal that will give the e-commerce giant a bigger reach with smartphone users. Read More Badgeville aims to make child's play out of software deployment Badgeville is promising buyers of the new edition of its gamification software that it will be easy to integrate it with four popular enterprise social collaboration products. Read More Mobile app data collection poses risks for enterprises, Gartner says Most mobile applications will collect and analyze information about end users by 2015, a trend that raises both rewards and risks for enterprises, according to analyst firm Gartner. Read More Microsoft challenges US warrant to turn over emails held overseas Microsoft has in a landmark case challenged in U.S. federal court a search warrant for private email communications located in the company's facility in Dublin, Ireland, after a magistrate judge quashed in April its opposition to the warrant. Read More Evernote hit by denial of service attack Evernote was resuming operations early Wednesday following a denial of service attack. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM The Forrester Wave™: Online Collaboration Software Vendors This report and associated Excel model highlight the key criteria CIOs and their staffs should evaluate when looking at prospective providers of online collaboration services. Learn More HP assembles 'federation' of Helion cloud providers Hoping to get a hand from partners, Hewlett-Packard is assembling a network of service providers that will offer hosted services based on the company's Helion software. Read More Google pays $500 million to buy satellite maker Skybox Imaging Google stands to gather massive amounts of geographic data for information as wildly diverse as the health of farm fields and congestion of parking lots, by purchasing the super-smart satellite imaging and analytics company Skybox Imaging. Read More Cisco: Broadband providers should not treat all bits the same All bits running over the Internet are not equal and should not be treated that way by broadband providers, despite net neutrality advocates' calls for traffic neutral regulations, Cisco Systems said. Read More PayPal chief joins Facebook to strengthen mobile messaging A stronger set of features, possibly including payments, might be coming to Facebook's messaging properties now that former PayPal president David Marcus has come to work for the social network. Read More Windows gets the GitHub tool it deserves A big barrier to widespread adoption of GitHub by Windows users has been the lack of friendly tooling to interact with the service. Most everything needed to be done through the command line and the initial setup of the security key exchange between your desktop and GitHub was enough to deter a lot of people. All of that has changed with GitHub Windows 2.0. Read More
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