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| Dec 11, 2020 | Ubuntu Server: A cheat sheet | Ubuntu Server is an open source platform that does more than you might think. With its ability to serve as an internal company server or to scale all the way up and out to meet enterprise-level needs, this operating system can do it all.
Th... |
| Jun 18, 2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 6/18/16 | Microsoft bought LinkedIn; Pinterest acquired Fleksy; Bed Bath and Beyond purchased One Kings Lane
Microsoft acquired LinkedIn. The purchase price was for $196 per share, or 45 percent above LinkedIn's price before the deal was announced, a... |
| Jun 17, 2016 | Samsung to Acquire Joyent, a Public and Private Cloud Provider | Samsung Electronics is to acquire Joyent, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based public and private cloud provider.
The amount of the deal – which remains subject to customary closing conditions – was not disclosed.
With its cloud technology, Sams... |
| Jun 16, 2016 | Samsung buys AWS rival Joyent | Samsung will acquire Californain app virtualisation and public cloud computing company Joyent, giving the tech giant its own cloud platform to support its mobile and internet-connected devices.
Joyent was founded in 2004 and is best known f... |
| Jun 16, 2016 | Samsung Dives Deeper Into Big Data And The Cloud With Joyent Acquisition: Why This Matters | Horia Ungureanu, Tech Times 16 June 2016, 10:06 am
Samsung Electronics unveiled that it will purchase Joyent, a U.S.-based public and private cloud provider.
This should let Samsung tap into the growing cloud market, opening up doors for In... |
| Jun 16, 2016 | Samsung acquires cloud infrastructure provider Joyent | Joyent will remain a separate, independent company under Samsung
Samsung acquired cloud infrastructure and big data analytics company Joyent, it was announced on Thursday.
Though no financial terms of the deal were disclosed it was revealed... |
| Jun 16, 2016 | Samsung приобрела стартап Joyent для создания собственного «облака» Статьи редакции | Южнокорейский производитель электроники Samsung Electronics объявил о покупке американского стартапа Joyent, работающего в сфере облачных технологий. Сумма сделки не раскрывается.
Приобретение Joyent позволит Samsung создать собственную обл... |
| Jun 15, 2016 | Samsung will acquire cloud-computing company Joyent | Samsung Electronics announced today that it has agreed to acquire cloud-computing company Joyent. In a statement, the Korean tech giant said that the transaction (its financial terms were undisclosed) will allow it to grow its cloud-based s... |
| Jun 15, 2016 | Samsung buys cloud infrastructure provider Joyent, will keep it operating as standalone company | Samsung today announced that it has acquired Joyent, a company with public cloud infrastructure and private cloud software, both of which can be used to build and deploy applications. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Joyent will continu... |
| Jun 15, 2016 | Samsung buys cloud infrastructure provider Joyent, will keep it operating as standalone company | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Samsung today announced that it has acquired Joye... |
| Jul 21, 2015 | As Kubernetes Hits 1.0, Google Donates Technology To Newly Formed Cloud Native Computing Foundation | Kubernetes, the open-source container management tool Google launched last February, hit version 1.0 today. With this update, Google now considers Kubernetes ready for production. What’s more important, though, Google is also ceding control... |
| May 8, 2015 | Node lead TJ Fontaine is stepping down and leaving Joyent, too | T.J. Fontaine is officially out as lead of the open-source project for the trendy server-side JavaScript framework Node.js, the project is announcing today. Fontaine is stepping aside three months after the launch of the Node.js Foundation.... |
| Mar 24, 2015 | Joyent Launches Triton, Its New Container Infrastructure For Easier Docker Deployments | Joyent today announced the launch of Triton, its new container infrastructure for making Docker deployments in on-premise clouds and on its own cloud architecture easier. This announcement comes about half a year after the company raised $1... |
| Feb 10, 2015 | Joyent joins with IBM, Microsoft, & the Linux Foundation to form the Node.js Foundation | The trendy open source project Node.js could soon be getting a lot more open.
Often referred to simply as Node, the server-side JavaScript framework has been influenced by corporate sponsor by Joyent for years. But that could be changing. T... |
| Feb 9, 2015 | GoDaddy acquires Node startup Nodejitsu | Update Feb 10: GoDaddy confirmed the deal on Twitter. Read our original report below.
Web hosting company GoDaddy is about to boost its capabilities when it comes to development tools. The company is in the midst of acquiring Nodejitsu, a s... |
| Feb 9, 2015 | GoDaddy acquires Node startup Nodejitsu | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Update Feb 10: GoDaddy confirmed the deal on Twit... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | Docker debuts on-premises software for storing companies’ apps in containers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
At its user conference in Amsterdam today, the ex... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | Docker debuts on-premises software for storing companies’ apps in containers | At its user conference in Amsterdam today, the executives of hot startup Docker are pulling the covers off new features to maintain and run applications packaged up in the container technology Docker released in an open-source license last ... |
| Nov 8, 2014 | 3 great reasons to give away your precious tech under an open-source license | Earlier this week, cloud provider Joyent did a surprising thing: It shared its finely tuned cloud software, SmartDataCenter, under an open-source license.
But while it might seem like the company is giving away its high-value intellectual p... |
| Nov 8, 2014 | 3 great reasons to give away your precious tech under an open-source license | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Earlier this week, cloud provider Joyent did a su... |
| Nov 3, 2014 | Joyent Secures $15M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Container infrastructure company, today announced that it raised $15 million in funding.
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| Oct 31, 2014 | Joyent Raises $15M in Funding | Joyent, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based container infrastructure company, raised $15m in funding.
Existing investors Intel Capital, Orascom TMT Investments, El Dorado Ventures, EPIC Ventures, LGI Ventures and others.
The company intends to ... |
| Oct 31, 2014 | Cloud provider Joyent bets the farm on containers, adds $15M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Joyent, a provider of public-cloud infrastructure... |
| Oct 31, 2014 | Cloud provider Joyent bets the farm on containers, adds $15M | Joyent, a provider of public-cloud infrastructure and software that companies can use to create clouds in their own data centers, is announcing today that it’s brought in $15 million in new funding.
The deal shows investors believe there’s ... |
| Oct 31, 2014 | Funding Daily: Today’s biggest tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Slack raises $120M from Google & Kleiner Perkins at $1.12B valuation
Corporate messaging tool Slack announced today that... |
| Oct 31, 2014 | Funding Daily: Today’s biggest tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| Oct 31, 2014 | Joyent Raises $15M To Bring Enterprise-Grade Docker Support To Its Cloud Platform | Until today, cloud infrastructure company Joyent had raised a total of $120 million in a number of funding rounds, with its 2012 $85 million Series D round being the latest and largest. There aren’t all that many companies that go past the ... |
| Feb 11, 2014 | npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round To Support Node.js Developers | Relatively easy to learn and highly scalable, Node.js has become a very popular platform for developing apps. Now npm, a package manager that installs, publishes and manages node programs, has raised $2.6 million in seed funding, led by Tru... |
| Jan 15, 2014 | The king is dead. Long live the king! Meet Node’s newest leader | Here’s another shakeup in the Node community: Once again, the face at the head of the open-source project has changed.
Effective immediately, Node.js project lead Isaac Schlueter is out — off to run his own business — and up-and-comer TJ Fo... |
| Dec 18, 2013 | Happy holidays: Amazon gives China a cloud of its own | At the Amazon Web Services user conference in Las Vegas last month, senior vice president Andy Jassy warned everyone that the already large public cloud would be increasing its geographical reach. “We’re not close to being done here,” Jassy... |
| Dec 18, 2013 | Happy holidays: Amazon gives China a cloud of its own | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
At the Amazon Web Services user conference in Las... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | Node.js Is Big, And Still Getting Bigger | Chances are if you think Walmart.com or LinkedIn is running smoothly, it’s thanks to Node.js, a server-side JavaScript development framework that is currently powering everything from the biggest websites to tiny microcontrollers.
See also:... |
| Sep 17, 2013 | Is ‘corporate open source’ an oxymoron? Not where Node is concerned | Ben Wen is vice president of product at Joyent, the corporate steward of open-source project Node.js
There are plenty of reasons for a corporate enterprise to sponsor an open source technology, from better code testing coverage to community... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | How Joyent's cloud helps Wanelo analyze its big data | SAN FRANCISCO — As traffic swelled at online social store Wanelo, the relational database PostgreSQL became insufficient for logging and understanding what users were doing on the site, forcing the company to think about other options. Wane... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | How Joyent's cloud helps Wanelo analyze its big data | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
SAN FRANCISCO — As traffic swelled at online soci... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | Joyent Co-Founder Jason Hoffman Steps Down As CTO Of The Cloud Computing Pioneer | Joyent co-founder Jason Hoffman is leaving his position as CTO of the pioneering cloud computing company. Hoffman said in a blog post that he will remain connected to Joyent as an advisor. We’ve reached out to Joyent to ask who their next C... |
| Jun 25, 2013 | Joyent Mashes Up Compute And Object Storage | If you think cutting edge of technology, chances are you are not going to be thinking about operating systems. Operating systems are, after all, the steady layer of software that sits on hardware and facilitates things getting done. Some op... |
| Jun 25, 2013 | New Joyent Service Offers Analytics Without Having To Move Data | Data is really hard to move. It becomes pretty much intractable as it increases in mass. Sure it can be pulled out, but that takes time and bandwidth and incurs a host of costs typically associated with using a cloud service. To really get ... |
| May 20, 2013 | Dell Kills Project To Build Out Public Cloud, Sends Layoff Notices | Dell has decided not to build out its public cloud and will instead rely on partners such as Joyent to provide infrastructure services. A source close to the matter said layoff notices at the company went out on Friday. The group had more t... |
| Jan 31, 2013 | Building for the Internet of things (and the demise of the client-server model) | Developers, listen up: Everything you’re doing now will be irrelevant within the next ten years.
The way you think about and build applications, services, and software — along with the tools you use to do so — will soon be irrelevant. There... |
| Nov 7, 2012 | Joyent Appoints New CEO And Pushes Out Joyent7 For The Emerging Scaled Out Enterprise | Joyent has appointed Henry Wasik as its new CEO and released Joyent7 to help companies develop the emerging, scaled-out global enterprise.
Wasik replaces Co-Founder Jason Hoffman, who has served as the interim CEO since David Young left the... |
| Nov 7, 2012 | Amazon competitor Joyent jumps for joy with new product and CEO | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The good news keeps on coming for cloud infrastru... |
| Aug 30, 2012 | Happy Ending To The Joyent Lifetime Subscription Story | Earlier this month Joyent announced that it would pull the plug on legacy “lifetime” hosting accounts. Now a long lost co-founder of the company is stepping up to honor the agreement.
Back in 2004 Jason Hoffman and Dean Allen founded TextDr... |
| Aug 16, 2012 | Cloud Computing Company Joyent Leaves Early Supporters Out In The Cold | Back in 2006, cloud computing company Joyent offered a lifetime subscription to bundle of hosting services for a one time fee of $500. Now, according to an e-mail sent to customers, Joyent is pulling the plug on those lifetime accounts. Cus... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | Collab.net Launches CloudForge for Cloud Development and Deployment | Collab.net began operations in 1999 providing various open-source desktop development tools. The company is most famous for Subversion, used by some 5 million developers for source version control. Beginning today, it combines some of the t... |
| Jan 28, 2012 | How a teen-founded company won the Node Jam | Five years ago, a fifteen-year-old student built a website; this week, the same website won the Node Jam at Node Summit, the conference focusing on all things Node.js.
Quizlet is a site you might never have heard of unless you were a teen o... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Joyent, TRUSTe, Mykonos: Bay Area BizTech by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time once again for our irregular, data-driven roundup of local deals, M&A, and other news, from biggest to smallest. The truth is, it’s been a slow week since our last lo... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Joyent grabs $85M from Weather Investment II, Telefonica to take on Amazon in cloud computing | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Cloud computing startup Joyent has raised a humon... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Cloud Computing Software Company Joyent Raises $85 Million To Pursue Global Growth | Cloud computing software and service provider Joyent has secured an $85 million round of new funding, the company is announcing today. The round was led by European group Weather Investment II. It also included Telefónica Digital, the growt... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Joyent Completes $85M Funding | Joyent, a San Francisco, CA-based global provider of cloud computing software and services, has completed an $85m funding round.
European group Weather Investment II, advised by Accelero Capital, provided the majority of the round, with par... |
| Jan 10, 2012 | Popular Like Voxer | Back in late November I wrote about a walkie-talkie mobile app called Voxer that had looked like it was starting to break into the big leagues of mobile communication. Since then, it has, at various points passing a few competing walkie-tal... |
| Jan 7, 2012 | Case study: How & why to build a consumer app with Node.js | Node.js has been getting great press for being used to build real-time web applications and fast networking tools that help big web sites run and scale.
But is Node just as good a fit for web agencies and developers that build dozens, score... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | Watch out, Ruby on Rails: Node.js is the most popular repo on Github | Node.js became the most popular code repository on Github over the holiday weekend.
With 11,460 watchers as of this writing, the Node repo now has more attention than Rails, which has 11,274 watchers.
For all you who’ve been trumpeting that... |
| Sep 30, 2011 | Psilos, Box, Blekko: Bay Area BizTech By the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s time for our data-driven news roundup. From the biggest number to the smallest:
$400 million—The target size of a new venture fund being raised by health IT investor Psil... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Cloud Software Company Joyent Raises $5 Million | Joyent, a San Francisco-based cloud computing software and service provider, has secured $5 million in debt funding according to an SEC filing.
The company, which was founded back in 2004, offers an integrated technology suite and related s... |
| Aug 25, 2011 | Node nerds unite at the first-ever Node Summit | “I don’t cargo cult often, but when I do, I do it with Node.js.”
So runs a wry joke we recently read about Node.js, the somewhat suddenly popular server-side programming technology that’s been all the rage among developers in our acquaintan... |
| Aug 19, 2011 | Joyent Node.js expert talks about Node in the enterprise and more | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Developers these days are fascinated by Node, as ... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | Exclusive: How LinkedIn used Node.js and HTML5 to build a better, faster app | This morning, LinkedIn launched its gorgeously overhauled mobile app. We’ve already told you all about the new features, but for developers, the most exciting part is what’s going on under the hood.
The app is two to 10 times faster on the ... |
| Aug 15, 2011 | Joyent Brings KVM to SmartOS for DIRTY Environments | Joyent, a company well-known to RWW readers for its backing of Node.js is announcing a step in a different direction today: the company has ported Linux KVM to its SmartOS offering and is making SmartOS available as a ready to install distr... |
| Mar 5, 2011 | 3 Interesting Reads on Node.js | Node.js had a busy week. Joyent relaunched its Node.js hosting service and O’Reilly Media posted a draft of Tom Hughes-Croucher’s Up and Running with Node.js book.
Node.js was also the star of a lengthy piece in the Register and pulled ahea... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | Joyent Relaunches Node.js Service, Announces Cloud Analytics | Cloud hosting provider Joyent re-launched its Node.js hosting service no.de this week. Joyent, the sponsor company of Node.js, is now offering versions 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 to no.de users. It also announced Cloud Analytics, a new service for fin... |
| Jan 22, 2011 | 5 Cloud Shake-Ups This Week | This was a busy week for the cloud. The biggest news was Amazon.com‘s entry into the platform-as-a-service business with its Elastic Beanstalk. But there were several other big announcements as well: a Dell employee confirmed that Dell will... |
| Dec 13, 2010 | nodeJsCloud Wants to be Heroku For node.js | nodeJsCloud is about to launch a cloud hosting service for node.js developers. node.js is a JavaScript framework for building server-side applications. It’s one of the hottest development platforms in use, with an explosion of interest sinc... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Intel Capital Invests $30 Million in Joyent, Nexant, Ciranovo And Adaptive Computing | Intel Capital has invested $30 million in four technology companies today, announcing investments in the cleantech, cloud computing and semiconductor manufacturing sectors. The investments were part of Intel’s recently announced $200 millio... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Joyent lands another $15M for cloud computing services | Cloud computing company Joyent announced today that it has landed $15 million in a third round of funding led by Intel Capital.
Joyent provides cloud computing services to companies – allowing them to take advantage of Joyent’s platform ins... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Joyent Secures $15M in Series C Funding | Joyent, a San Francisco, California-based global provider of smart computing solutions, has secured $15m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Intel Capital, with participation from existing investor Greycroft Partners and new backer Li... |
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| Jul 15, 2010 | Joyent Acquires Private Cloud Management Startup Layerboom Systems | Cloud infrastructure company Joyent has acquired Vancouver-based Layerboom Systems, a startup that provides a software to hosting companies that allows them to build and sell virtual private server clouds. Terms of the deal were not disclos... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Cloud Religion: Do’s, Do Not’s, and a Glimpse of Nirvana | As the cloud is getting more players and interfaces, best and worst practices are emerging. As the market grows and more companies try to plug in, the cloud may benefit from guiding principles.
Similar to new technology movements in the pas... |
| Feb 16, 2010 | Cloud platform choices: a developer’s-eye view | reader comments 12 with 10 posters participating
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| Dec 17, 2009 | Server-Side Javascript: Back With a Vengeance | Last month was Javascript season in Europe, with twoconferences dedicated to the language that powers interactive web applications, and a third, which featured it heavily. If a common theme emerged, it was the buzz about Javascript leaping ... |
| Nov 17, 2009 | Intel Capital Invests In Cloud Computing Pioneer Joyent | Joyent, the Californian provider of cloud computing solutions – although they like to refer to that as delivering “web application hosting Infrastructure as a Service” – today announced that it raised an undisclosed amount of funding from I... |
| Aug 13, 2009 | ExpanDrive Acquires Strongspace and BingoDisk from Joyent | Today ExpanDrive, a company specializing in SFTP mounting services, announced that it has acquired Strongspace and BingoDisk from Joyent. Terms of the deals have not been disclosed.
ExpanDrive is a service that allows users to mount SFTP se... |
| Apr 11, 2008 | The New Robert Scobles: Seven Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists Today | Robert Scoble blazed a big trail by blogging and producing video as a technical evangelist for Microsoft from 2003 through 2006. No longer at Microsoft, Scoble now produces media for media’s sake at FastCompany.tv. Others have followed his ... |
| Mar 24, 2008 | Rails developers showing love for Heroku | San Francisco startup Heroku has found a fresh approach to helping developers build and deploy applications from the popular Ruby on Rails programming framework. It’s the only company to combine automated deployment — in other words, you ju... |
| Feb 19, 2008 | Rackspace Offers Cloud Computing with Mosso | Last week’s incident with Amazon Web Services briefly going down may have raised questions about the reliability of cloud computing, but demand is high enough for competitors to keep trying to get into the game. The more companies that ente... |
| Jan 31, 2008 | Twitter and Joyent Split Amidst Downtime Travails | Update: According to an ARIN lookup, Twitter appears to be hosted by Verio now.
Update 2: Twitter has come out on their blog to say that they are now hosted by NTT America.
According to Joyent’s corporate blog, the company stopped hosting T... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | Joyent's Hosted Apps Back Up, Going Open Source | News Joyent's Hosted Apps Back Up, Going Open Source By Becky NagelJanuary 29, 2008 After a more than week-long crash of a server hosting two of its inexpensive Web-based services, Strongspace and BingoDisk, Joyent is taking steps to addres... |
| Jan 21, 2008 | Strongspace's 10-Day Crash Highlights Web Storage Risks | News Strongspace's 10-Day Crash Highlights Web Storage Risks By Becky NagelJanuary 21, 2008 For the last 10 days, Sausalito, Calif.-based online document and storage hosting company Joyent struggled to get its online secure document collabo... |
| Jan 21, 2008 | Strongspace's 10-Day Crash Highlights Web Storage Risks | News Strongspace's 10-Day Crash Highlights Web Storage Risks By Becky NagelJanuary 21, 2008 For the last 10 days, Sausalito, Calif.-based online document and storage hosting company Joyent struggled to get its online secure document collabo... |
| Jan 15, 2008 | Joyent Suffers Major Downtime Due To ZFS Bug | Services provided by cloud computing provider Joyent have been offline for three days following issues with ZFS.
Strongspace and BingoDisk are amongst services that have been affected since January 12. Joyent CEO David Young said in a post ... |
| Jan 11, 2008 | Benchmark Bets on Ruby on Rails With $3.5 Million Investment in Engine Yard | Is Ruby on Rails the next Java? Benchmark Capital thinks so. It just invested $3.5 million in Engine Yard, taking its entire series A round. Ruby on Rails is an increasingly popular Web application programming environment because it is dead... |
| Jan 11, 2008 | Engine Yard, a Rails application support company, gets backing from Benchmark | Engine Yard, a provider of support for the hot programming language and application framework, Ruby on Rails, has raised $3.5 million in a first round of capital from Benchmark Capital.
Ruby on Rails (or Rails, for short) has grown tremendo... |
| Nov 13, 2007 | Joyent Announces Free Hosting For Facebook App Developers | Cloud computing platform service provider Joyent is today announcing the availability of 3500 free hosting accounts for Facebook application developers. Joyent has partnered with Dell to offer Facebook developers the free one-year accounts,... |
| Jul 17, 2007 | Virtualmin: Better sys-admin for your growing web site | Virtualmin is making it easier for web hosting companies to set up and maintain web sites, a process that can be mind-numbingly mundane and tedious.
The Mountain View, Calif. company offers open-source and commercial software designed to au... |
| Mar 27, 2007 | Adobe, Slingshot, others pressuring Microsoft | Adobe and others continue to roll out new software iterations, all challenging Microsoft’s dominance of popular consumer software.
Adobe recently released Apollo, a software that lets developers create Web applications that work online and ... |
| Feb 27, 2007 | Corel Debuts Free WordPerfect Beta | Corel made a play for a piece of the Web 2.0 pie on Tuesday, releasing WordPerfect Lightning in beta, a free, compact version of its standard word processing suite that combines both online and offline functionality.
The company is referrin... |
| Oct 13, 2006 | The best of Office 2.0 | [Editor’s note. We attended the Office 2.0 conference this week, and noted a lot of interesting innovation happening with interactive applications for office workers. We asked Jeff Nolan, a former venture capitalist at SAP Ventures, to repo... |
| Oct 13, 2006 | ProtectMyPhotos launches very easy online media storage | ProtectMyPhotos is a newly launched service that aims to make the online/offline photo storage and viewing environments seamless. This Windows desktop client automatically syncs folders on your computer with your online storage space and Fl... |
| Oct 5, 2005 | The Companies of Web 2.0, Part 1 | The Web 2.0 conference kicked off today with a number of great workshops. The highlights for us were the Attention Trust board meeting (posts below) and, of course, the Launchpad workshop where a dozen companies presented in an hour and a h... |
