Newly launched Web hosting company Cloud Jolt is focused on Web hosting services, as well as an outlet for individuals and businesses to give back to their communities.
This socially responsible business venture was started by four entrepreneurs at Babson College: Augustin Ba, Alex Friedberg, Alex Shearer, and John Rioux.Cloud Jolt notes that for those joining Cloud Jolt, 25 percent of a total payment will be given to the non-profit organization of a person’s choice.
Users will get the opportunity to choose from eight featured charities and can also decide to give to other organizations. Going forward, Cloud Jolt will partner with more charities to give their clients increased choices of causes to support.
Cloud phone management system Ifbyphone has raised $8 million in Series B funding from the company’s CEO Irv Shapiro, Apex Venture Partners, Origin Ventures, Spring Mill Ventures, i2A Fund and Second Century Ventures (the National Association of Realtors’ investment fund). This brings the Chicago-based company’s total funding to $16 million.
Ifbyphone bought Cloudvox earlier this year. Cloudvox is a hosted service that allows developers to place, receive, and control phone calls from their own software (including Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, C#, and simple HTTP/JSON).
Huge deal for Groupon today, after roughly 12 years at Amazon, Jason Child is joining the red hot social commerce startup as chief financial officer. Jason was most recently Vice President of Finance for Amazon.com’s $14 billion International business. Previously, Jason held key finance leadership roles for Amazon in Germany and Japan, also serving in Investor Relations, Technology, Marketing and as Worldwide Corporate Controller.
Prior to Amazon, he spent more than seven years at Arthur Andersen where he was a CPA and Consulting Manager.Here’s Child’s comment on his move:
“Groupon is one of the most amazing businesses I have ever seen. I am thrilled to join a great team that is attacking one of the biggest opportunities in e-commerce today.”
Tron Legacy came out today. I haven’t seen it but I am planning on seeing it this weekend. For all you movie lovers out there. Here are some of the top reviews across the nation from all the well known movie critics.
The Reviews:
Associated Press: While director Joseph Kosinski’s feature film debut is thrilling and cool-looking for about the first half, its races, games and visuals eventually grow repetitive, which only draws attention to how flimsy and preposterous the script is from Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz…
Dallas Morning News: That’s all the movie has going for it [the special effects], and in just about every other way a movie can fail, Tron: Legacy does…
Daily Mail: Overblown, overlong and an utter waste of money and time, it is a super-catastrophic Disney folly aimed at sad geeks…
Chicago Sun Times (Roger Ebert): The plot is another matter. It’s a catastrophe, short-changing the characters and befuddling the audience. No doubt an online guru will produce a synopsis of everything that happens, but this isn’t like an opera, where you can peek at the program notes….
Slashfilm (G-Baby from Ron & Fez): To describe any film as “a roller coaster” is a complete cliche, but TRON: Legacy is almost begging for it. Director Joseph Kosinski, whether he knows it or not, has constructed the film as such: There’s the quick build at the beginning, a whole bunch of action at the front, a lull in the middle and an exciting twisty, turny finish. But, like a roller coaster, the slow parts are forgivable because the ride is so much fun and that’s what TRON: Legacy is, one of the most fun films of the year…
IGN Movies: What viewers will get, regardless of their relationship with the 1982 film, is a thrilling, moving 3D adventure that will leave you wanting more…
AV Club: The original Tron was by no means perfect—it was barely adequate, for that matter—but it nonetheless had a sense of fun and adventure, turning on the adolescent fantasy of arcade junkies being inside the games they play. Director Joseph Kosinski teases the audience with updated light-cycle and discus-game showdowns, but it’s only an homage; his Tron pretends to greatness in ways that snuff out any flickers of joy…
Screen Junkies: Tron Legacy is great because of the story, not the effects or style. It is full of pretty ladies, impressive physical specimens and wild characters. I love Quorra (Olivia Wilde) the happy program, and all the quirks Castor (Michael Sheen) lets loose just because he can. This is a world you’ll want to revisit again and again…
Posted on 17th December 2010 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting
The Wall Street Journal has a story about the employee of an Apple supplier who was indicted for leaking Apple secrets to a colleague, including iPhone 4 details. But more interesting are his revelations about what Apple will fire you over.
Forbes unearthed revelations after scouring through the court documents, and according to a phone conversation with Walter Shimoon, the Flextronics biz dev director who was indicted, any mention of the term “K48″ will land your ass the first ticket out of 1 Infinite Loop. K48, you see, was the codename for the (now released) iPad, which was under heavy secrecy when this phone conversation was recorded.
What happens if you unknowingly mention a codename by accident? Does the entire Apple campus go into lockdown mode when this happens? Does Steve step out of the shadows and waterboard you? I guess that’s the risk you run when you help to create MAGIC. [WSJ via Fortune]
Large hosting and cloud hosting company Rackspace has aquired Cloudkick for an undisclosed amount of money. Cloudkick, which opened it’s doors in early 2009, helps to provide detailed graphs on your servers, and tools to categorize and keep information about what each server is doing. This should help the cloud server giant know a little better what is going on with your servers.
Cloudkick has a little over 1,500 businesses that it helps, from Fortune 500 enterprises to small start-ups. Cloudkick has helped more than 1 million servers know a little better what is going on.
mSpot allows customers to sync all your music collection across mobile phones and PCs/Macs to iPhones and I believe iPad’s with the launch of their new app. Since the service’s public launch in June, mSpot has seen over 1 million downloads of a similar app for Android phones.
The new mSpot application will allow users to upload their music to the mSpot Cloud and then listen to the music from both
desktop browsers and iPhones for free. Free 2GB of hard drive space (aprox 1600 songs) and $3.99/month for the 40GB cloud hosting plan (36000 songs).
No doubt that cloud music will be huge in the near future. Cloud musica!
The largest Tech conference in Europe: Le Web 10 kicked off a little earlier today. There will be a lot of large tech companies using cloud hosting such as Twitter’s Jason Goldman, Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley and Google’s Marissa Mayer.
The Le Web event will be live streamed in its entirety courtesy of Ustream and you can watch the video above and here as well as live above on best cloud server.
Here is the schedule, hope you enjoy!
DAY 1 – DEC 8, 2010 – Pullman PLENARY ROOM
Times are Paris time.
08h00 – Welcome Buffet Breakfast
sponsored by Cotty Vivant Marchisio & Lauzeral – Law Firm
09h25 – Welcome Keynote
Carlos Ghosn, Chairman & CEO, Renault S.A. & Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Q&A with Loïc Le Meur
State of the Industry: Platform Thought Leaders
09h50 – Charlie Kindel, GM, WP7 Developer Ecosystem, Microsoft Corporation
Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb
10h10 – Ethan Beard, Director, Facebook Developer Network, Facebook
Q&A with Michael Arrington, Editor, TechCrunch
10h30 – Jason Goldman, VP of Product, Twitter
Q&A with MG Siegler, Writer, TechCrunch
10h50 – Mike Jones, CEO, MySpace
Q&A with Robert Scoble, American Blogger, Tech Evangelist & Author
11h10 – Dr. Bertrand Piccard, Initiator & Chairman, Solar Impulse
Keynote & Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb
11h35 – Stephane Richard, CEO, France Telecom-Orange
Q&A with David Barroux, Companies News Editor in Chief, LesEchos
Let’s Play – Game Talk
11h55 – Sebastien de Halleux, Co-Founder, Playfish & VP, Business Development & Strategic Partnerships,
EA Interactive
Q&A with Veronica Belmont, Host, Tekzilla
12h15 – Mikael Hed, CEO, Rovio behind the best selling mobile app Angry Birds
Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb
Mobile and Innovation
12h35 – Marko Ahtisaari, SVP Design, Nokia
12h55 – Osama Bedier, Vice President of Platform, Mobile and New Ventures, PayPal
Q&A with Milo Yiannopoulos, Technology columnist, Telegraph.co.uk
13h15 – 14h30 – LUNCH BREAK
14h30 – Ignite @ LeWeb
15h30 – Fireside Chat with Marissa Mayer, VP, Google
& Michael Arrington, Editor, TechCrunch
Get Mobilized
15h55 – Fireside chat with Tomoko Namba, CEO, DeNA
& Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb
16h15 – Christopher Smith, Senior Director, BlackBerry Development Platform, Research In Motion Ltd.
Q&A with Ryan Block, Co-founder & Editor Emeritus, gdgt & Engadget
16h35 – Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder, foursquare
Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb
The Media Platforms
16h55 – Media Panel
Moderated by: Adrian Monck, Managing Director, Head of Communications & Media, World Economic Forum
Panelists:
Julio Alonso, Founder & CEO, Weblogs SL
Pierre Chappaz, Founder & CEO, Wikio
Kenneth “KC” Estenson, Senior Vice President & General Manager, CNN.com
Gabe Rivera, Founder & CEO, Techmeme
Ben Rooney, Technology Editor, The Wall Street Journal Europe
17h40 – Platform for Charity
Joe Green, Co-Founder & President, Causes
18h00 – Leo Laporte, Author, Speaker & Broadcaster
Featuring:
Brent Hoberman, Founder & Executive Chairman, mydeco
Marc Simoncini, Founder & CEO, Meetic
Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founder
The new Google ebookstore opened today. They are launching with around 4,000 publisher partners. 4,000 is the figure for the US launch, but internationally they should have around 35,000.
They are reported to have all the major publishers signed on. This is estimated to be providing a total of around 300,000 in-copyright works, mostly likely including anything you could buy new at any other bookstore.
GoodReads is their first (and only, at launch) “affiliate network” partner; eBooks services will be tied into the social reading site and revenue will be split three ways. The major publishers will be taking 70% of the list price, others will be taking 52%, and the many independent bookstores and publishers Google has negotiated with have their own undisclosed rates.
According to Blogger Forums,Sites Forums, and others, the search giant Google has been testing a new online storage tool called Cloud Picker.
This tool is connected to Google Apps, Docs, and Sites, and was presented to users when they tried to insert a file or image into a Google site. When they tried to embed the file, a “Google Cloud Picker” window opened and asked users to log-in to their Google Accounts.
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