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Google (s GOOG) announced Monday that it has bought Divide, a company that builds apps meant to make it easier for businesses to allow employees to use personal smartphones on secure corporate networks. Considering recent reports that iOS still dominates the enterprise market, Google’s purchase appears to be a savvy move to beef up Android’s bring-your-own-device capabilities for large companies. The Divide team will be joining the Android team, but while the Divide app is currently available for both iOS and Android, the WSJ is reporting there are no plans to kill the iOS app. Google did not disclose the purchase price.

YouTube (s GOOG) is about to announce the acquisition of Twitch for $1 billion, according to a Variety report. Twitch, which offers users a way to stream and watch live video game action, would be YouTube’s biggest acquisition to date, and help the Google-owned video service to catch up in the live streaming space. The acquisition is an all-cash deal, according to Variety.

Both companies declined to comment on the story Sunday afternoon. “We don’t comment on rumors or speculation,” a Google spokesperson told us via email, and Twitch’s PR director Chase tweeted the following:

http://www.twitter.com/ChasejustChase/status/468164124111695872 

Twitch, which spun off from the pioneering live streaming service Justin.tv in 2011, has gotten immensely popular with video gamers and their fans, in part due to partnerships with Microsoft (S MSFT) and Sony (S SNE) that allow users of the company’s game consoles to live stream their game play on Twitch. During the…

When was the last time you left home without your smart phone? If you have – at some point in time – chances are, you’ve become distressed and felt as you left behind a vital part of your life – something that’s usually essential for our survival. It’s funny how technology – especially information technology – is changing how we function in everyday life.  Consequently, with information technology reaching new heights by every passing year, we are becoming more advanced as a society. Most people think that technology is all good, and no harm has come from it – at least none that they can actually see.  In fact, folks who believe that their privacy is not being violated are either extremely naïve or may be retarded.  In reality, privacy is dead – whether you like it or not – it’s true. If you are a facebook user, than facebook…

Mobile-device management, app wrapping, secure storage, file sharing, secure app containers — the enterprise mobility management (EMM) puzzle has a lot of pieces. Stitching them together is so painful that few companies have followed through. They’re wasting precious hours, losing money, and the time for that kind of behavior is over.

When it comes to EMM (and, particularly, the ever-present BYOD trend), there are plenty of success stories. For most businesses, however, it hasn’t delivered. Small businesses that actually need BYOD aren’t securing or managing anything, and while enterprises have spent millions of dollars on EMM software, most of it sits unused because making the pieces work together still proves difficult. The result? IT still the bad guy and no one is getting anything done.

Late last year I spoke with several CIOs and CISOs who are using a well-known EMM suite. Most were managing more than 30,000 devices in…