Business Week - Apr 26 - Lawson Software announced a number of services and products Monday for running its software in a private cloud environment, following up on its recent move to support its ERP software on Amazon's public Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

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BBC News - Apr 26 - The UK will spend over £1 billion on cloud computing by 2012 - twice as much as today - researchers predict. This would mean more consumers and businesses subscribing to web-based services, such as Google Apps.

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Daniel Ingitaraj's Blog - With digital marketing techniques getting more mature and prevalent, you hear of more companies tapping into social networks. I’m finding that marketers are increasingly hungry for information on how to best exploit Facebook to reach and engage prospects and customers. The reasons are obvious - you have to “fish where the fishes are ”.

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The Street - Apr 23 - Microsoft is undoubtedly the leader in computing operating systems and judging from the growing success of the Windows 7 OS, the company will be able to retain the lion's share of revenue flowing from the segment. Management has stated that 10% of all PCs are already running Windows 7, indicating strong adoption rates and significant potential that continues to unfold.

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Search Cloud Computing - Apr 23 - The VMforce news due from VMware and Salesforce.com has everyone in cloud computing and virtualization talking.

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EDL - Apr 22 - Leading SaaS vendor Salesforce.com and cloud-based business directory Jigsaw.com recently announced that Salesforce has purchased Jigsaw for $142 million. The deal will be finalized in the second quarter of 2011 as both companies adhere to closing conditions of the agreement.

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Reuters - Apr 22 - Japan's Fujitsu Ltd (6702.T) will invest 50 billion yen ($537.3 million) this fiscal year in cloud computing services internationally, the Nikkei business daily said.

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Channel Web - Apr 22 - While cloud computing may be all the rage, some businesses remain reluctant to commit their IT operations to the cloud. For those companies, solution provider Appirio is making an offer that's hard to refuse.

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CIO - Apr 21 - The typical cloud computing contract can look downright simple to an experienced IT outsourcing customer accustomed to inking pacts hundreds of pages long that outline service levels and penalties, pricing and benchmarks, processes and procedures, security and business continuity requirements, and clauses delineating the rights and responsibilities of the IT services supplier and customer.

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Search Cloud Computing - Apr 21 - Software licensing, the bane of thousands of IT managers, just got more complicated. Managing how many users can access PeopleSoft or how many licenses of Windows 2008 R2 you need is straightforward: add the total up and write a check. But managing the number of licenses you need for a cloud deployment of your custom application? Not so easy.

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