The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “BeyondTrust acquires eEye to Create Security Powerhouse”.David Storm says, “Virtualization security vendor BeyondTrust is acquiring eEye Digital Security for undisclosed terms. The two companies have leading technology in somewhat different but complementary security market spaces. BeyondTrust plans to integrate eEye’s Retina CS Vulnerability Management and Analytics solutions with its PowerBroker family of virtualization security products. The company claims that this will be the market’s first truly context-driven... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Sites With Social Reading Apps Sacrifice Readers to Facebook”.Jon Mitchell says, “There’s wonderful news this week. Facebook’s frictionless “social reading” apps have seen a devastating decline in traffic. It was tempting to just blame it on how much they suck, but as Josh Constine rightly pointed out, the real story is that Facebook turned off the traffic hose. The lack of control should be reason enough for publishers to abandon them. But the better reason is that they throw readers under the... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “The Web vs. the Cloud: Which Metaphor Survives?”.Scott M. Fulton says, “Ask yourself this: Would you install ReadWriteWeb as an app? You might, if you were convinced that it did something useful for you, and if you didn’t have to pay much (or anything) for it. You may already have installed Dropbox, and services like Pinterest and LinkedIn are now smartphone apps. Can you foresee a time when you won’t need a browser to do the things you do online? And if so, would you miss it much?”.The Web vs. the Cloud:... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “No, We’re Not In A Social Media Bubble”.Dave Copeland says, “In 1997, Scott Cherkin was the tenth employee and first salesperson hired by theglobe.com. Cherkin, now an executive vice president with Complex Media, remembers the company’s initial public offering, a year-and-a-half after he joined the company. At the time, theglobe.com had $15 million in annual revenue and no profits.“While our IPO set records at the time, we were far from the exception of the time where venture capital was flowing like... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Is Facebook 2012 The Same As AOL 2001?”.Dave Copeland says, “News that the use of Facebook’s reader apps was in a steady freefall got me thinking about AOL.Or, more specifically, America Online, as the company was known back in the dot-com bubble, before it took on the AOL moniker as part of one of many image overhauls”.Is Facebook 2012 The Same As AOL 2001? ReadWriteWeb [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “The Future of Yahoo: What Daniel Loeb Really Wants”.Richard MacManus says, “Last week it was revealed that current Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson had falsified his résumé, by including a degree in computer science that he never earned. The man who dug up this piece of dirt was hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, whose firm Third Point owns a 5.8% shareholding in Yahoo! and who has been trying to get a place on Yahoo!’s board”.The Future of Yahoo: What Daniel Loeb Really Wants ReadWriteWeb [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “What “Data Gravity” Means to Your Data”.Joe Brockmeier says, “If you’ve wondered why so many companies are eager to control data storage, the answer can be summed up in a simple term: data gravity. Ultimately, where data is determines where the money is. Services and applications are nothing without it”.What “Data Gravity” Means to Your Data ReadWriteWeb [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Now Twitter Looks Nice Even on Your Crappy Feature Phone”.John Paul Titlow says, “When we talk about the mobile Web and apps, we’re almost always talking about smartphones. Android and iOS and their competitors are getting most of the innovation these days, but it’s worth recalling that less than half of American adults currently own a smartphone. Many of the rest of us are still toting around simple feature phones with much more basic capabilities. But that doesn’t mean those folks don’t want... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “VC Victor Hwang: How To Create The Next Silicon Valley”.Rieva Lesonsky says, “As Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital, a Silicon Valley venture firm that helps build “innovation ecosystems” around the globe, Victor Hwang knows quite a lot about what it takes to create an environment where high-tech startups can grow and thrive.In fact, it’s the subject of his new book – The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley, with co-author Greg Horowitt. We asked Hwang to share some of those insights”.VC... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Pinterest Will Boost Your Referral Traffic, But Can It Boost Sales?”.Dave Copeland says, “Here’s a statistic that may make you do a double take: Pinterest (which is still in beta) sends more referral traffic than Twitter despite having a user base only seven percent as large as the microblogging service’s numbers. That was one of the findings in a study released last Wednesday by Eloqua as part of a product launch, which also found that Pinterest is responsible for as much referral traffic as Facebookdespite... [...]