Juan Carlos Perez

Articles by Juan Carlos Perez

AOL buys TechCrunch and 5min Media

The acquisitions are meant to boost AOL's content offerings. The moves are in line with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's strategy of turning AOL into a massive provider of original content as a way to boost user engagement and advertising sales

Microsoft pulls plug on blog platform

Blogs on Windows Live Spaces will be moved onto Wordpress under a partnership announced Monday. Blog publishers have six months to migrate

Twitter buys Canadian analytics company

The social networking giant is seeking to boost its Web analytics capacity with the acquisition of Smallthought Systems. The Canadian firm created Trendly, a cloud-hosted Web analytics application

Google App Engine’s datastore falters under demand

Two weeks after announcing a business version of its Google App Engine application building and hosting service, Google promises improvements but waives fees until problems are solved

Google, VMware team on cloud portability

In additon to working with VMware, Google also announced a version of App Engine for businesses. Get all the details

Central Desktop adds simultaneous edits for Office

The company's new suite allows users to collaborate on Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. The platform also gives users the ability to keep track of the changes and additions made by different users

Google drafts cloud printing plan for Chrome OS

Google has released details of a project to let Chrome OS users print documents to any printer from any application without the need for device drivers

Google stops censoring in China

Google has made good on its promise to stop censoring its results on Google.cn in China. The company is redirecting from its Chinese site to Google.com.hk

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