Yes, Google Wave is dead — but it won’t fully flatline until some time in 2011, Google confirmed in a post today. Well actually, their words were that wave.google.com (the front-end product) “will be available at least through the end of the year.” But yes, you can probably expect them to shut it down sometime [...]

This morning, we saw Dell’s announcement that 3PAR had accepted its increased offer to acquire the storage company for $ 24.30 per share in cash, or approximately $ 1.6 billion, net of 3PAR’s cash. Now HP just upped the ante, offering $ 1.8 billion for 3PAR, or $ 27 per share in cash. Clearly these [...]

Marketing analytics company MarketShare Partners has acquired JovianDATA, a marketing and data analytics technology firm. We hear the acquisition price is roughly $ 8 million but MarketShare Partners declined to reveal the terms of the deal. MarketShare Partners develops software that evaluates the key parts of a company’s business, such as macro-economic factors, product innovation, [...]

Dr. Usama Fayyad has worn several hats at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, Microsoft, his startups DigiMine and DMX, and of course, at Yahoo where he was their Chief Data Officer for four years. It’s a rich resume with one unifying theme: data. Few people have spent as much time as Fayyad ruminating on this one [...]

Dr. Usama Fayyad has worn several hats at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, Microsoft, his startups DigiMine and DMX, and of course, at Yahoo where he was their Chief Data Officer for four years. It’s a rich resume with one unifying theme: data. Few people have spent as much time as Fayyad ruminating on this one [...]

With more and more consumers using desktop, laptop and mobile devices in their everyday lives, there’s a pressing need for syncing data across applications and devices. Y Combinator-backed Simperium is launching its platform for app-level syncing in the cloud. The best use case of Simperium’s platform is in its recently launched note taking application Simplenote. [...]

YCombinator-funded company Leftronic launches today, offering up software that makes it easy for companies to aggregate data in their ambient displays, i.e. a displays mounted on a wall. Founded by Lionel Jingles, Rajiv Ghanta and Jyotindra Vasudeo, the company is in the same space as Geckoboard and Panic Software. While many companies will squander programming [...]

Social media analytics company ViralHeat is giving away free access to a treasure trove of data from Twitter, Facebook and a number of other social properties, all housed within the site’s more than 4,000 topic-based profiles. … Mashable | The Social Media Guide

The Mozilla Firefox metrics blog just published detailed data about what times of the day Firefox users switch over to private browsing mode (a.k.a. porn mode) and for how long. The results probably won’t surprise you. Some Firefox… Mashable | The Social Media Guide

Dell has agreed to acquire 3PAR, a competitor to the likes of IBM, HP, EMC and Hitachi in the data storage and management space. The transaction is valued at $ 18 per share in cash – marking a 86.5% premium to company’s Friday closing price of $ 9.65 – or approximately $ 1.15 billion. TechCrunch