Software

Merger and acquisition activity during the first half of the year across the mobile and online space increased 3% compared with the final half of 2011, with total M&A transaction …

Austin is one of the bright spots in the national employment picture. While US unemployment ticked up to 8.2% last month and the economy created just 69,000 jobs, Austin’s unemployment …

Google (GOOG) won a key court victory yesterday in Northern California when Federal Judge William Alsup ruled that 37 of Oracle’s Java APIs are not protected by copyright law. APIs …

BROOMFIELD, Colo. – A crowd of more than 450 packed the ballroom at the Omni Resort in Broomfield, Colo., Wednesday morning for the third annual Glue Conference. Organizer Eric Norlin …

MIAMI – Latin American telecom operator giant America Movil has begun a project to standardize its company’s primary IT systems in the region. Named America Movil One, the project was …

Small and medium businesses are learning to profit from mobile marketing, and software giant Intuit (INTU) is taking note. Today the maker of QuickBooks and TurboTax said it will acquire …

IBM (NYSE: IBM) yesterday announced it will acquire Vivisimo, a Pittsburgh-based firm that helps large organizations access and analyze enterprise data.  IBM also announced that its big data platform will now run on Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop. The announcements …

Several Latin American telecom operators are already launching LTE services or trials, and more auctions are scheduled, but LATAM still lags behind some other markets. That’s why the mobile broadband …

Security experts are warning Android users about a potential new malware strain that they say has already infected more than 1,600 smartphones. DKFBootKit piggybacks onto legitimate apps that require root …

América Móvil’s Claro Brazil has reduced the time it takes to add a new customer into the telecom operators’ base from 8-10 days to 2-3 days. This is a result …

With the iPad 3 already generating a huge media buzz, this is would not be a good time for Apple to see customers reconsider their purchase plans due to concerns …

As the annual Game Developers’ Conference kicks off in San Francisco this week, the industry will be focusing on mobile as never before. “We’re doubling down in the mobile space,” …

Senator Charles Schumer wants the Federal Trade Commission and smartphone manufacturers to both take action to insure that private data on smartphones stays private. Yesterday the New York Democrat told …

Sprint Nextel has launched its Sprint TV App in the iOS app store, enabling millions of iPhone owners to watch free TV on their phones. Powered by MobiTV, the Sprint …

Software giant Oracle recently released a report focused on the mobile space showing that increased consumer demand of mobile data services is a worldwide phenomenon fueled by the rise of …

William R. Hambrecht, a director from Motorola Mobility’s board, has resigned for unspecified reasons just a day after Google announced its plans to take over the company. The resignation is …

As the dust starts to settle on news of Google’s $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility on Monday, the question now being asked is whether the deal will pass muster …