Tomorrow’s forecast for the future in business is still looking…  mostly cloudy. In an article written by The Street’s Dana Blankenhorn, an eloquent summary of timeline events is shown, leading to today’s anywhere, anytime business. Blankenhorn writes, “There’s a great …

When it comes to visualizing how effective cost savings can be in a cloud-based environment its time to learn a new acronym to better understand what is ‘efficient computing’.  Get to know MIPS, that is “Million of Instruction Per Second” …

While the rest of the world is mired in a slow-motion economic recovery, the prospects for cloud computing growth continue to shine.  In fact cloud computing businesses are enjoying life on a relative island of business opportunity and prosperity, revenue …

Its the end of ERP as we know it and cloud-based business services companies feel just fine.  But what’s behind this new way of business sea change that has some referring to the shift as a ‘mass extinction event’ in …

Top 10 predictions for 2012. My forecasting skills are probably more finely tuned to weather patterns and producing daily forecasts.  But as real fan and active participant in the development of some of today’s technology and software designs there does …

Sources: Groupon rejects Google’s offer; will stay independent Posted yesterday at 6:04 p.m. Groupon CEO Andrew Mason speaks at the company’s headquarters on Aug. 31, 2010. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) By Melissa Harris and Wailin Wong The deal didn’t tip after …

Via Techcrunch Bidding War For Twitter Raises Valuation To Nearly $4 Billion. Kleiner Perkins Currently In Pole Position by Michael Arrington Two weeks ago we reported that Twitter was mulling over raising a big new round of financing and the expected …

Via TECHCRUNCH by Sarah Lacy John Doerr: “Bigger than Billion-Dollar Greentech IPOs in 18 Months” Sarah Lacy 11 hours ago In the peak of the Internet bubble, a company’s valuation– and press attention– would soar simply by whispering the words “John …

Shares of Salesforce.com Inc. soared to a record high on Friday after the business software company reported stronger-than-expected results for the latest quarter and said it expects to reap $2 billion in revenue in fiscal 2012. Salesforce was among the …

By Mark Kleis, Leftlanenews.com Toyota took advantage of its recently-forged relationship with EV sports car manufacturer Tesla by introducing an electric RAV4 today at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The RAV4 EV concept – as it’s currently being billed – …