Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Boston – June 17, 2010 Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Perigon Networks Acquires AmHosting Blogs: Come out to our Boston WHIR Networking Event Tomorrow News: IBM to Buy Web Analytics Firm Coremetrics, Boosting Business Analytics Strategy News: Web Host Steadfast Opens Manhattan Data Center News: EvoSwitch Names New Sales Manager (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In an effort to expand its business analytics capabilities, technology heavyweight IBM ( www.ibm.com ) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Web analytics software developer Coremetrics. According to IBM’s Tuesday announcement, the acquisition, expected to close in the third quarter of 2010 subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, will help IBM enable organizations to use a cloud-based delivery model to gain real-time insight into consumer interactions internally and through social media networks to develop faster, more targeted marketing campaigns. “With this acquisition, we are extending our capabilities to give clients greater insight about customer behavior and sentiment about products and services, and give true foresight into their future buying patterns,” IBM WebSphere general manager Craig Hayman said in a statement.

After buying its own client, Twitter toys with sending ads to clients In the history of anything whatsoever, timing is rarely, if ever, coincidental. More often these days, however, the strategy behind it looks confusing. Just days before it’s scheduled to hold its developers conference in San Francisco (tomorrow and Thursday), Twitter revealed that it is in the process of either acquiring or building applications that will compete directly with the Twitter clients these developers will be taught how to build.