Seagate, SanDisk Recovering Nicely

Last year, Seagate was expected to take over SanDisk as part of its plan to enter the solid-state drive (SSD) market. That did not happen, but Seagate has entered the market organically. The company recently launched Pulsar, its first enterprise SSD for blade and general servers. On the other hand, pSSD Gen2 SSD from SanDisk

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Moving To The Cloud: Informatica And Autodesk

The business intelligence (BI) tools market continues to grow at a healthy pace, primarily driven by maintenance revenue rather than new license revenue. According to an IDC report published in mid-2009, the BI tools market is estimated at $7.8 billion in 2008, up 10.6% over 2007. SAP is the market leader in BI with a

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Samsung, Motorola Filling Smartphone Gaps

Samsung, which started out as a small manufacturer of black-and-white televisions, was able to celebrate its fortieth birthday last month as the world’s leading manufacturer of not just television sets but also memory chips and LCD panels. It is also the No. 2 cell phone handset vendor with an approximate 21% share, while Motorola has

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Garmin, TiVO On The Decline

Google recently signed an audience research deal with TiVo while at the same time making things difficult for personal navigation device (PND) maker Garmin, since Google’s Android smartphones provide navigation applications free. For the first time in its history, Garmin posted a year of revenue decline as more and more smartphones are being sold with add-on

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SaaS Consolidation Overview

The SaaS sector has seen quite a few acquisitions this year, the major ones coming from Adobe, Intuit, and ADP. The recent economic downturn has spurred this acquisition activity in the sector, which has turned out to be relatively less vulnerable to the effects of the economic downturn. 

Electronic Arts Pushing Digital

The gaming industry is going through a turmoil: demand is there, but margins seem to be disappearing. Higher sales are driven by price cuts, and profitability is an issue. The industry is looking for a new idea or a game console that will shake up the gaming world. Sony seems to be planning to release such

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Securing Cyberspace: Websense, McAfee, and Symantec

IDC forecasts the global Web security market to grow at a CAGR of 12.3% to $2.5 billion in 2013 from $1.4 billion in 2008, with SaaS Web security being the fastest-growing segment at a CAGR of 46.5% between 2008 and 2013. Also, with the increasing use of Web 2.0 by corporations and more spam, data leaks

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Dell Declining

According to IDC, Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), which had annual revenue of $61.1 billion, has lost market share and it has lost its No.2 spot to Acer in the global market. It has, of course, lost the top spot in the U.S. market to HP. Dell’s recently reported third quarter results were also disappointing, missing both earnings

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