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This week on GigaOM Pro, our analysts took a close look at the cloud and at data - two topics that will take center stage at our Structure conference in San Francisco next month Read more »

The mobile ad network Millennial Media reports that Amazon's Kindle lineup claims 28 percent of all mobile ad impressions on Android tablets. The looming question is how much Amazon could grow its mobile ad business by producing its own smartphone. Read more »

Producing enough food to feed a growing population is a perennial challenge worldwide, but it shouldn’t be about clearing forests to plant crops. How to farm efficiently should be the goal, and data collection and analytics could help in a big way. GigaOm’s Katie Fehrenbacher posted an interesting read today about a startup that is [...] Read more »

[Update - Saturday 18 May: Yahoo's board plans to meet Sunday to discuss and decide on a $1.1B, 100% cash acquisition of Tumblr, AllThingsD now reports.] The AllThingsD team was in attendance at JP Morgan’s Global Technology conference and heard the Yahoo CFO, Ken Goldman, admit that Yahoo needs to regain its “cool” image again. [...] Read more »

The crux of the government's case against Apple is that it acted as the "ringmaster" of a conspiracy among the publishers to raise the price of ebooks above what Amazon was selling them for. But what the government calls a conspiracy in restraint of trade, Apple calls standard operating procedure for entering a concentrated media market. Read more »

If private cloud computing is to have an impact within enterprises, it needs to provide a better value than traditional approaches. Moving from one complex system to another complex system will only add to the problem. Read more »

A week ago, Microsoft announced that the dramatically revised version of Sharepoint Online is going to go live on Office 365 in the next few weeks, and apparently is going to be a rolling release. As the Sharepoint team said on the Office 365 Technical Blog, What to expect during upgrade Office 365 customers will be notified approximately four weeks [...] Read more »

Google said this week it has expanded handset support for its Wallet to include three smartphones from Sprint and one from US Cellular. But Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile continue to snub the system in favor of their own Isis. Read more »

One of the most important attributes of the mobile app world is the need to be able to iterate fast. IBM's MobileFirst portfolio might be the company's attempt to develop and manage a mobile solution, but it cannot ever be as fast as the market demands. Read more »

SAP has been the darling of enterprise software for many years, and dependence on it continues to this day. However, since the emergence of the SaaS space more than 10 years ago, and with the current rise of IaaS public cloud computing providers, SAP is getting some tough questions from its user base around its cloud-computing strategy. Read more »