4 posts and columns on Blueprint

Get Your Zombie-Eaten Brain Ready for Some Big-Think Tech Books

in Media on December 28, 2011 at 7:18 am PT

Time for some reading beyond 140 characters!
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Intel Capital, Condé Nast Owner Invest $30 Million in Kno; Intel to Consult on Student Tablet Hardware

in News on April 7, 2011 at 7:17 pm PT

According to sources close to the situation, Intel Capital and Advance Publications will lead a $30 million investment round in Kno, the high-profile student tablet start-up. In addition to the funding from its venture capital ark, Intel itself will license the hardware design of Kno, which will now focus on its software to manage the devices that are aimed at the college market.

IBM Gobbles Up BPM Outfit Lombardi

in News on December 16, 2009 at 9:30 am PT

Research firm IDC estimates that the market for business process management software and services will hit $3 billion by 2013. That’s a little more than double the category’s current $1.7 billion. So it is not all that surprising to see IBM bolster its position there. This morning, the company acquired Lombardi, a well-known midrange BPM vendor, for an undisclosed sum.
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Liveblogging From Yahoo’s "Open House": Open Ads, Open Mobile, Open Open!

in News on September 11, 2008 at 11:11 am PT

BoomTown is thinking of starting a drinking game wherein the group gathered at Yahoo’s “Open House” media event this morning, takes a shot of Cuervo every time an exec says “open.” Except, everyone would be drunker than drunk if that was the case by now, as Yahoo lays out its strategies to open its platform and all its products to the whole wide world. That would be developers, publishers, advertisers, content creators and my mother. OK, not her, since she cannot turn on a computer. But definitely everyone else.