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Facebook F8 Focus: Messenger For Business, Sharing

Facebook is seemingly bidding to be nearly everything to everyone online, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg played up the No. 1 social networking site’s rising services in his keynote speech Wednesday opening the company’s two-day F8 developer conference. The Facebook (FB) co-founder pledged to unify the company’s growing number of services, and he announced the opening of Messenger to outside developers. “Facebook used to be this single blue app that did a

Utility Fees On Solar Could Take Toll: Solar Firms

An Arizona utility’s controversial fee on residential solar customers is set to take effect in April, and already it’s hitting the country’s No. 1 residential installer in the wallet. The new fee on solar customers, estimated to add on average about $50 a month to the bills of those who generate their own power, was approved Feb. 26 by Phoenix-based utility Salt River Project. Applications for residential-solar systems in SRP’s region have

Hortonworks Woes Won’t Stop Other Hadoop IPO Plans

Wall Street will likely soon be getting a bigger dose of Hadoop, though investor interest has cooled on the first publicly traded company in this sector. At least three enterprise software companies that specialize in Hadoop, an open-source database software, are expected to file for initial public offerings within the next 18 months. All say that they are not worried about the lagging shares of Hortonworks (HDP), the first Hadoop company to make