Articles by Nick Kolakowski

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  The Coming Renaissance of Social Network Analytics

  For small business owners (or those single entrepreneurs trying to sell a product), a golden age of do-it-yourself analytics could be upon us, at least when it comes to social-media presence: Yel…
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  Does Yahoo's Summly Buy Signal a Tech Bubble?

  When a major IT company pays a reported $30 million—roughly 90 percent of it in cash—for an iOS app with no monetization strategy and a million downloads since launch, is that a sign that the tec…
• Oracle Acquires Tekelec, Boosting Networking Stakes

  Oracle has agreed to acquire Tekelec, which provides data-management and network-signaling tools to communications companies. As usual for deals of this type, actual terms went undisclosed. “As c…
• Apple Acquires WiFiSLAM for Indoor Maps: Report

  [caption id="attachment_8721" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The ideal maps app would allow the user to see inside historical landmarks.[/caption] While the furor over Apple’s Maps app seems to…
• Massachusetts Considering a Tax on the Cloud

  [caption id="attachment_8701" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Boston is home to a variety of technology firms.[/caption] Massachusetts could be readying to level a state tax on cloud-computing p…
• Is Oracle Getting Hammered by Cloud Rivals?

  For anyone with a major investment in Oracle, the past few days probably haven’t been an occasion for breaking out the champagne: the company’s stock has tumbled in the wake of a weak earnings re…
• The Abandoned Shopping Cart: Crafting a Better Customer-Monitoring Experience

  Brick and mortar retailers can’t offer customers the shopping convenience of an e-commerce website, but they can offer a smoother shopping experience, especially when store management can physica…
• Microsoft Issues Its Own User-Data Transparency Report

  [caption id="attachment_8648" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The data broken down in Microsoft's new transparency report.[/caption] Not to be outdone by Google, Microsoft has released a “2012 L…
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  Apple Leads Cloud-Storage Market: Strategy Analytics

  Pop quiz: which company leads the cloud-storage market? If you guessed Dropbox or Amazon, you’d be close—but it’s actually Apple, at least according to new data from research firm Strategy Analyt…
• Google’s Schmidt Says Android, Chrome OS Will Remain Separate

  [caption id="attachment_8631" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Google's Chrome OS.[/caption] Google’s Chrome OS and Android will remain separate platforms, according to executive chairman Eric Sc…