Articles by Nick Kolakowski

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  Apple Negotiating to Buy Waze for Mapping: Rumor

  Apple executives are reportedly mulling whether to acquire Waze, a builder of fully featured mapping apps. According to TechCrunch, which drew its latest information from unnamed sources close to…
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  Buffalo Bills Latest NFL Team to Embrace Data Analytics

  Can data-analytics software win a Super Bowl? That’s what the Buffalo Bills are betting on: the NFL team will create an analytics department to crunch player data, building on a model already wel…
• Instagram User Drop Blamed on Holidays, Not Terms of Use

  When AppData first posted a graph (above) showing a 25 percent drop in Instagram’s daily active users, it sparked a flurry of discussion online—much of it focused on the recent controversy over t…
• Facebook’s Poke, Snapchat Highlight Issues with Secure Communications

  [caption id="attachment_6826" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Facebook's Poke can vaporize messages between users.[/caption] In Ye Olden Days before the creation of the Web, disposing of a writt…
• Instagram Retreats Back to Old Policies

  The Instagram saga—or tempest in a teapot, for everyone who doesn’t use photo-sharing services—continues to roll on its merry way. Days after rolling out a revised Terms of Use that upset users o…
• Oracle Adds Eloqua to Cloud Portfolio

  Oracle has agreed to acquire Eloqua, which builds cloud-based “marketing automation and revenue performance management software,” for approximately $871 million. Oracle plans to use Eloqua’s asse…
• Facebook Pauses AdSense-Style Ad Network: Report

  Facebook has halted plans to launch the social-networking equivalent of Google’s AdSense network, according to a new report from AllThingsD. As originally envisioned, the Facebook advertising net…
• IBM Acquires StoredIQ for Data Governance

  [caption id="attachment_6670" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Wrangling data (both digitized and on paper) is a growing issue for many organizations.[/caption] IBM has acquired StoredIQ, a priva…
• Google Expanding Kansas City Network Experiment

  [caption id="attachment_6626" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Google Fiber's planned expansion in Kansas City.[/caption] Google’s high-speed broadband experiment in Kansas City has evidently pro…
• Instagram Can Now Sell Your Precious Photos

  [caption id="attachment_6618" align="aligncenter" width="556"] Your sepia-toned images could make Instagram and Facebook some serious cash.[/caption] Remember that photograph of your dog you snap…