Autor: HCFG

Internet sleuths over at NeoGAF have deduced that Wii Fit U sold under 20,000 units in the US during January. Nintendo declined to give any figures regarding the game during last week’s NPD figures. The retail release of Wii Fit U launched in the US on January 10th.

Autor: Tony Bradley

Graham Markay, Vice President of Operations at Natsume, has revealed that the Nintendo 3DS has been great for the company in terms of sales.  Markay also promises that Natsume have more games in the works for the system which will be revealed at a later date.

“The 3DS has done very well for us in terms of sales.” Additional games will be announced for the system “in the future.”

There was big news this week with the Comcast-Time Warner merger. In case you missed the furor as it was happening, Matthew Ingram explains everything you need to know about the $45 billion deal and why bringing the two largest cable providers together could change TV forever . Meanwhile, on Gigaom Research, our analysts were focused on another industry giant (Microsoft), a new definition for the HR department, and more.

Note: Gigaom Research is a subscription-based research service offering in-depth, timely analysis of developing trends and technologies. Visit research.gigaom.com to learn more about it.

Cloud: Microsoft Windows Azure: strengths and weaknesses
Janakiram MSV

According to analyst Janakiram MSV, just when everyone thought that Microsoft lost the cloud game, the company bounced back to become a formidable player. In this report, he reviews the positive drivers that allow Microsoft to catch up to AWS and the opportunities for improvement including lack…

If you’re keeping up with news in Silicon Valley, have a heavy conscience or just enjoy buzzy apps, then you’ve probably downloaded the new iPhone (s AAPL) app Secret, which launched late last month. Meant as a judgment-free outlet for users to post their innermost thoughts (think a social version of PostSecret), Secret has become a hotbed of tech-related gossip. But when it comes to the mainstream, does the way that Secret operates have a chance of inhibiting its own growth? 

Here’s how secrets travel around Secret, according to the company’s post on Medium:

“We…believe great ideas should spread on their own merit. Whenever someone likes your post, it will spread to their friends. If their friends like it, it continues to reach even further. This is how ideas travel on Secret, just like the real world.”

In short, users with more connections and friends on Secret will…

Researcher IHS Technology expects spending on cloud infrastructure and services to hit $174.2 billion in 2014, up 20 percent from $145.2 billion last year. Perhaps more to the point, it expects this growth rate to continue with enterprise spending on cloud to soar to $235.1 billion by 2017. That would be triple the amount spent on cloud ($78.2 billion in 2011.)

While researchers may differ on how much cloud spending will grow going forward, they all agree that it’s on the upswing — which is why IBM(s ibm), Hewlett-Packard (s hpq), Cisco(s csco), Microsoft(s msft) et al are rushing to adapt to the new model and to cloud-first upstarts like Amazon Web Services(s amzn).

The Structure Show — what’s up with Hadoop

Cloudera chief strategy officer Mike Olson sat in with us this week to discuss his view of the Hadoop landscape and why everyone wants a piece of the…

Autor: Carlos Eduardo Maffei

A Receita Federal bateu um recorde histórico de arrecadação em 2013 e, segundo o Secretário da Receita Federal, Carlos Alberto Barreto, as perspectivas são boas para 2014. Faltou apenas citar para quem. No entanto, apesar da carga tributária ser nefasta para o país, não podemos deixar de reconhecer as inovações e tecnologias que transformaram a Receita Federal brasileira em um modelo internacional.

Nesse sentido, a Receita vem buscando automatizar as informações das empresas, pois tivemos o ECF, EFD… Enfim, pouco importam as siglas. O que notamos é que o governo terá, em um futuro não tão distante, TODAS as informações sobre as atividades das empresas.

Pois bem, este ano teremos mais uma sigla incorporada ao nosso vocabulário. Na verdade, falamos muito dela desde 2013. É a já famosa Escrituração Fiscal Digital Social, ou apenas eSocial, que até o momento é a parte mais complexa do…