http://techcrunch.com – Feeling slighted by Google’s dominance in search? In Europe, you may soon be able to sue for damages. A new proposal published today by the European Commission proposes to spell out the details, and effectively make it easier and quicker, for consumers and businesses to sue large companies when they feel that they have been the victims of antitrust violations. (IT news)
http://techcrunch.com – Salesforce.com is releasing what it calls The Facebook Ads Benchmark Report, which shows how Facebook ads performed on Salesforce’s social advertising service Social.com. As the name implies, the report’s main purpose is to let businesses see how their ads stack up against the average, so to a certain extent, it’s basically a data dump — and I’ll try to highlight some of th (IT news)
http://techcrunch.com – Mindy Candy, the U.K. company behind the hugely successful Moshi Monsters adoptable pet monsters kids game, is branching out into animation. (IT news)
http://news.softpedia.com – The third maintenance release of GNOME Documents 3.8, the main document viewer for the GNOME desktop environment, has been released last evening, June 10, 2013, fixing annoying bugs. (IT news)
http://www.networkworld.com – Hewlett-Packard has designed a new all-in-one desktop that's intended to appeal to IT departments as well as employees. (IT news)
http://techcrunch.com – DIY micro-robotics is having a moment. The latest project to take the crowdfunding route — via Kickstarter — to build out a platform for playing around with robotics is called BrickPi. As its name suggests, BrickPi is a mash-up of the Raspberry Pi microcomputer, co-opted to act as the brains of the robot, plus LEGO Mindstorms sensors, bricks and motors for crafting its working parts. (IT news)
http://news.softpedia.com – The GNOME Project announced last night, June 10, the immediate availability for download of the third maintenance release of the stable GNOME Chess 3.8 game for the GNOME desktop environment. (IT news)
http://thevarguy.com – The battle to decide which database technology will define the future of Big Data continues to rage, but the NoSQL camp scored a victory today with the announcement of a new partnership between Talend and Couchbase. The agreement will connect Talend's open source Big Data platforms to the enterprise NoSQL software developed by Couchbase. read more (IT news)
http://techcrunch.com – InternMatch has raised a $4 million Series A funding round led by ARTIS Ventures and Subtraction Capital, as well as follow-on investors including Kapor Capital and 500 Startups. The company will use the money to expand its engineering and marketing teams and build data-based technology to help match companies with the right applicants. (IT news)
http://techcrunch.com – Just about eight weeks ago or so, I was on a call with Zynga’s COO David Ko following the company’s first quarter earnings report. (IT news)
http://thevarguy.com – Peter Howard, an eight-year NetApp veteran, has ascended to NetApp’s (NTAP) channel chief post from his prior position as the storage vendor’s North America datacenter alliances senior director, where he was responsible for driving FlexPod sales and developing the company’s channel strategy. (IT news)
http://thevarguy.com – Webalo, which develops a cloud-based platform for deploying mobile applications, has been carving a niche for itself over the last several months that centers on enterprise security and mobile applications. (IT news)
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