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| May 13, 2012 | Box: The Path From Arrington’s Backyard To A Billion Dollar Business | It’s no secret that many deals have been struck and key relationships formed at TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington’s former house in Atherton. In case you aren’t familiar, Arrington threw epic parties at his home for the tech community in... |
| Jan 9, 2012 | Intuit GoPayment Goes International With Canada Launch; Redesigns Mobile Credit Card Reader | Intuit is announcing major news this evening around its mobile credit card swiping device and Square-competitor GoPayment reader. Intuit is one of the first major U.S. mobile payments readers to go international, with a launch in Canada. An... |
| Dec 20, 2011 | Intuit GoPayment Now Allows Merchants To Receive Money On A Prepaid Visa Card | Intuit has made an interesting move today with its mobile credit card reader GoPayment reader. Intuit is allowing merchants to keep and receive funds on a prepaid credit card as opposed to depositing the amount in a bank account.
Launched t... |
| Dec 8, 2011 | Cloudera Updates Hadoop Management App With Health Checks, Reporting Features And More | Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, is releasing a new version of its enterprise product complete with with Cloudera Manager, a comprehensive management... |
| Dec 5, 2011 | Box.net Teams Up With HP To Include Cloud Storage Accounts On Business PCs | Cloud storage platform Box.net is announcing a major partnership with HP today to bring the startup’s offerings to select HP desktops.
Box, which has 8 million users and stores over 300 million documents, is a cloud storage platform for the... |
| Nov 17, 2011 | Cloud Storage Platform Box Debuts Developer Platform /Bin; $2M Fund To Invest In The Enterprise | After raising a whopping $81 million in funding from a group of all-star investors, including Salesforce, SAP Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson; cloud storage platform Box.net is setti... |
| Nov 16, 2011 | Subscription Billings Platform Zuora Nabs $36M From Index, Greylock At $300M-Plus Valuation | Zuora, a SaaS startup that offers online services to manage and automate customer subscriptions and payments, has raised $36 million in new funding from Index Ventures, Greylock Partners, Workday CEO and founder Dave Duffield, Benchmark Cap... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Social App Analytics Platform Kontagent Raises $12M From Battery Ventures And Others | Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform has raised $12 million in Series B funding led by Battery Ventures, with Maverick Capital and Altos Ventures participating. To date, Kontagent has raised $18 million in funding.
As w... |
| Nov 7, 2011 | Ignition, Accel, Greylock Put $40M In Apache Hadoop Distribution Platform Cloudera | Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, has raised $40 million in new funding led by Ignition Partners, Greylock, Accel, Meritech Capital Partners, and In-Q... |
| Oct 11, 2011 | Cloud Storage Platform Box.net Raises $81M From Salesforce, SAP At $600M-Plus Valuation | Cloud storage platform Box.net has raised $81 million in Series D funding from strategic investors Salesforce.com and SAP Ventures with Bessemer Venture Partners, NEA, and prior investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurv... |
| Sep 28, 2011 | Cloud Storage Platform Box.net Raises $50 Million From Salesforce And Others | Cloud storage platform Box.net has raised a whopping $50 million in new funding with participation from CRM giant Salesforce .com. Past investors also participated in the round, as well as new ‘strategic partners’, who will be revealed soon... |
| Sep 15, 2011 | Sequoia Leads $30M Round In Mobile Business Data Visualization App Roambi | MeLLmo, the developer of business data visualization platform Roambi, has raised $30 million through its first round of institutional funding led by Sequoia Capital. This brings MeLLmo’s total funding to $50 million. As part of the round, S... |
| Aug 30, 2011 | InsideView Debuts CRM+ To Bring Social Intelligence To Business Operations | InsideView, a service that mashes up social data for enterprises to increase sales productivity, is launching a new product today—CRM+.
InsideView, which has raised $37 million in funding, crawls through more than 20,000 web sites, social n... |
| Aug 30, 2011 | Salesforce Adds Realtime Chat, Screen Sharing, And Groups To Chatter; Debuts HTML5 Mobile App | Salesforce’s ‘social network for the enterprise’ Chatter has been the company’s first real foray into incorporating social with business functions. Salesforce originally announced Chatter back in November of 2009, and the application launch... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | Intuit Partners With Verizon Wireless To Sell Square-Competitor GoPayment At Retail Stores | Inuit’s GoPayment reader, which competes directly with Square, is making a significant move in the mobile payments space today, partnering with Verizon Wireless to sell its credit card readers in Verizon Wireless’ 2,300 retail stores and bu... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | SEC Watch: Cloud Storage Startup Box.net Raises $18.6 Million More | Box.net has raised $18.6 million out of a $35 million round according to an SEC filing. We’ve confirmed this with the company. This brings Box’s total funding to $96 million.
Box, which has 6 million users and stores 300 million documents, ... |
| Aug 11, 2011 | Box.net Bets On HTML5 For New Mobile Site; Launches PlayBook And Android Tablet Apps | Box.net’s CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie has been open about his belief that mobile is a key pillar to the cloud storage company’s future. The company already offers native apps for a number of platforms, including Android, iPhone, iPad and... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Kontagent Expands Beyond Facebook To Offer Analytics To Web And Mobile Apps | For the past few years, Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform, has offered user analytics for developers of Facebook apps and games. Today, the company is moving beyond the social network to web and mobile apps that have... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Heads Up! TechCrunch Will Look A Little Different Next Week | Next week we’ll be rolling out significant enhancements to TechCrunch. A new design and a new logo will be the first thing you’ll notice. But behind the scenes we’ve made significant changes to the other end of TechCrunch as well – the admi... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | Citrix Makes Strategic Investments In Graymatics And Gizmox | Citrix today announced two investments.
The company is backing Graymatics, a stealth startup that is building a cloud platform for content-based analysis of video and other digital media, and Gizmox, the developer of the Visual WebGui web, ... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | Cloudera Updates Enterprise Offering; Debuts Quick Apache Hadoop Deployment Software | Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, is unveiling a new version of its service, Cloudera Enterprise 3.5. The company is also releasing Cloudera SCM Expre... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Box.net Ups The Ante Against Microsoft With In-Depth Google Docs Integration | Cloud storage and collaboration startup Box.net is upping the ante against competitor Microsoft SharePoint today with the launch of an in-depth integration with Google’s productivity suite Google Docs and Spreadsheets directly within the pl... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Ping Identity Raises $21M To Provide A Secure, Single Sign-On For Enterprise Applications | Ping Identity, a company that creates secure, cloud based sign-in platform for enterprise applications, has raised $21 million in funding from Triangle Peak Partners, Silicon Valley Bank, and existing investors Appian Ventures, Draper Fishe... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Oracle Buys Web Content Management Company Fatwire Software | Oracle has just announced a new acquisition today—web experience management company Fatwire Software. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close mid-2011, were not disclosed.
Fatwire Software’s web content and experience manage... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Citrix Backs Mobile Cloud Technology Startup | Citrix this morning announced an investment in mobile technology company Core Mobile Networks, marking the third funding commitment for the company’s Startup Accelerator, its Silicon Valley-based seed investment initiative which debuted in ... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Development As A Service Platform Cloud9 Raises $5.5M From Accel And Atlassian Software | Cloud9 IDE, a commercial development as a service (DaaS) platform, has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners and product development software company Atlassian Software.
Cloud9 IDE, which spawned from Ajax.org, is aimi... |
| Jun 9, 2011 | Fusion-io Opens At $25 Per Share With A $1.9 Billion Market Cap | As we heard yesterday, Fusion-io, the developer of flash- memory technology for companies, upped the opening price of its IPO to $19 per share, valuing the company at $1.5 billion. Earlier in the week, the company upped the range f its offe... |
| Jun 8, 2011 | Fusion-io Prices IPO At $19 Per Share; Now Valued At $1.5 Billion | Wow. Fusion-io, the developer of flash- memory technology for companies, just upped the final price of its IPO to $19 per share, after increasing the range yesterday to $16 to $18 per share from $13 to $15 per share. At $19 per share, the c... |
| Jun 7, 2011 | Fusion-io Ups Price Of IPO To $16 To $18 Per Share; Now Valued At $1.4 Billion | The technology IPO rush continues this week as Fusion-IO, the developer of flash- memory technology for companies, increased the price of its IPO to $16 to $18 per share. The company had previously priced its shares at $13 to $15 per share,... |
| Jun 6, 2011 | Accel Adds Enterprise Data Storage And Infrastructure Exec Kirk Bowman As Venture Partner | Accel Partners has a long, and well-known history of making solid investment bets on popular consumer facing web and mobile platforms, including Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, Trulia and Angry Birds. But the firm is also making significant moveme... |
| May 31, 2011 | Software AG Buys Metismo To Expand Enterprise Mobile Offerings | After buying Terracotta last week, Software AG is continuing its acquisition spree today. The provider of business process management solutions has acquired UK mobile development company Metismo. Financial terms of the deal were not disclos... |
| May 16, 2011 | SanDisk Acquires Flash Disk Maker Pliant Technology For $327M Plus Earn-out | Flash memory storage solutions provider SanDisk has acquired Pliant Technology, a developer of enterprise solid state drives, the company announced this morning.
Under the terms of the agreement, SanDisk will pay approximately $327 million ... |
| May 16, 2011 | Kleiner Perkins Leads $9M Round In Apache Hadoop-Based Analytics Platform Datameer | Datameer, a startup that offers a big data analytics solution built on Apache Hadoop, has raised $9.25 million led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Redpoint Ventures. Kleiner partner Ellen Pao will be joining Datameer’s board. Thi... |
| May 12, 2011 | Only YOU, Or A Wireless Network And Sensors, Can Prevent Forest Fires | Networks and wireless sensors have been used for years — by companies like Lighting Science Group, Arch Rock (acquired by Cisco) and D-Link — in a variety of smart building, smart grid and security applications. Their systems can sense occu... |
| May 11, 2011 | Alpine Data Labs Scores $7.5 Million To Help Companies Analyze Troves Of Data | Incubated within big data company Greenplum (acquired by EMC in 2010) and following 15 months of product development, Silicon Valley-based Alpine Data Labs launches its solution for “Big Data Predictive Insight” in the United States today.
... |
| May 1, 2011 | Intuit's GoPayment Cuts Transaction Fees, Pricing Now More In Line With Square | Inuit’s GoPayment reader, which competes directly with Square, is about to become more attractive to small businesses. The company has made the decision dropped the transaction fee ($0.15 per transaction) for both new and existing customers... |
| Apr 26, 2011 | SuccessFactors Buys Enterprise Learning Management Software Plateau For $290M | On the heels of buying enterprise learning startup Jambok, the company has acquired another learning management software developer-Plateau Systems. SuccessFactors will pay $145 million in cash plus $145 million in stock for Plateau, for a t... |
| Apr 26, 2011 | VMware Acquires Online Presentation Application SlideRocket | VMware has just announced the acquisition of online presentation application SlideRocket. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
SlideRocket, which has raised $7 million in funding, is a cloud-based online presentation application tha... |
| Apr 25, 2011 | Yammer Finally Works And Makes Work Possible On The iPad | Our love affair with Yammer is pretty hot and cold. On one hand, they launched at and won TechCrunch50a few years back. And they seem to be kicking ass on the business distribution front. On the other, the apps they put out there (which we ... |
| Apr 5, 2011 | Marin Software Raises $16 Million For Paid Search Management Platform | Marin Software, a startup that creates search engine management software for advertisers and agencies, has raised $16 million in Series E funding led by Crosslink Capital with DAG Ventures, with Focus Ventures, Benchmark Capital, and Triang... |
| Apr 4, 2011 | EMC Buys Network Security Monitoring And Analysis Company NetWitness | Following its $2.25 billion acquisition of Isilon, infrastructure giant EMC is making another purchase today— network security software company NetWitness. EMC’s acquisition of NetWitness closed on April 1, 2011 (clearly neither company wan... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | JavaScript Creator And Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich To Advise Ajax.org | Brendan Eich, creator of the JavaScript scripting language and chief technology officer at Mozilla, has joined the advisory board of Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based Ajax.org.
We recently wrote about Ajax.org’s introduction of Cloud9 IDE, a... |
| Mar 24, 2011 | InsideView Raises $12M To Give Businesses Social Sales Intelligence | InsideView, a service that mashes up social data for enterprises to increase sales productivity, has raised $12 million in Series C funding led by Foundation Capital with Emergence Capital Partners, Rembrandt Venture Partners and Greenhouse... |
| Mar 21, 2011 | Andreessen Horowitz Adds New Venture Partner To Go After Enterprise Computing | Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz continues its expansion today, bringing on former Veritas and Citrix Exec Peter Levine as a venture partner. Most recently, the firm added entrepreneur Scott Weiss as general partner. With Levine, Andreessen... |
| Mar 15, 2011 | Vidyo's HD Video Conferencing Platform Now Supports iPad 2, XOOM And Atrix | Video conferencing technology company Vidyo is enhancing its platform with support for Apple’s just released iPad 2, Motorola’s XOOM tablet and Atrix smartphone. The platform utilizes the company’s VidyoTechnology SDK, which is available to... |
| Mar 14, 2011 | SuccessFactors Acquires Enterprise Social Learning Startup Jambok | SuccessFactors has acquired Jambok, a SaaS social learning company founded by former Sun Chief Learning Officer Karie Willyerd and former Sun Chief Technology officer Charles Beckham. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Jambok’s SaaS enab... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Kontagent Adds Real Time Monitoring To Facebook Analytics Platform | Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform, is adding real time functionality to its social application monitoring system.
Kontagent’s platform gives Facebook app developers, game studios and publishers detailed data of demog... |
| Feb 24, 2011 | Enterprise Cloud Storage Platform Box.net Raises $48M From Andreessen Horowitz And Others | Cloud storage and collaboration startup Box.net has raised $48 million in new funding led by Meritech Capital Partners with Andreessen Horowitz, Emergence Capital Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Scale Venture Partners and US Venture Part... |
| Feb 19, 2011 | Steve Jobs Doesn’t Want to Kill Publishers, But Apple’s Subscription Strategy Will | This guest post is by Tien Tzuo, founder of Zuora, a subscription billing company. Previously, he was chief strategy officer and employee No. 11 at Salesforce.com.
Publishers have been struggling for years. Now local newspapers, magazines a... |
| Feb 16, 2011 | Intuit Extends Free Version Offer For Square-Competitor GoPayment Indefinitely | Intuit raised eyebrows in early January when it rolled out a free version of its Square-competitor, GoPayment, which is a mobile payment application and small credit card reader that attaches to smartphones. The caveat to the free version, ... |
| Feb 16, 2011 | With RSS Face Down In A Ditch, Lifeless, Pulse Finds A Heartbeat Beyond It | We love the “RSS Is Dead” meme here at TechCrunch. Hell, we started it. And while RSS isn’t exactly dead as in gone, it is dead in that the vast majority of people who consume content on the web have absolutely no idea what it is and will n... |
| Feb 14, 2011 | Zendesk Brings Help Desk Software To The iPad | Customer support startup Zendesk is rolling out an iPad app today, which allows support agents to manage a company’s help desk on the go.
Launched in 2008, Zendesk offers a web-based, SaaS-delivered help desk/support ticketing application t... |
| Feb 14, 2011 | Research In Motion Acquires Professional Contact Manager Gist | We heard the rumors that Research In Motion (RIM) was involved in serious talks to buy professional contact manager Gist, and today it’s official. RIM has bought Gist, we’ve confirmed with the company. Financial terms of the deal were not d... |
| Feb 10, 2011 | Facebook Analytics Platform Kontagent Now Tracking 100M Users; 15B Messages Per Month | Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform, has hit a milestone today. The startup is now tracking over 100 million monthly active users and over 15 billion messages per month. That’s up from 70 million monthly active users i... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | Verve Wireless Acquires Mobile Ad Technology Company Deconstruct Media | Verve Wireless, which helps local media companies monetize their mobile inventory, has acquired Deconstruct Media, a mobile advertising technology company founded by a team of former Advertising.com product and engineering execs.
Deconstruc... |
| Feb 1, 2011 | Aria Systems Raises $20 Million For Cloud-Based Billing And Subscription Platform | On demand billing and recurring subscription management company,Aria Systems has raised $20 million in new funding led by InterWest Partners with Hummer-Winblad and Venrock participating in the round. This brings Aria System’s total funding... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Why Microsoft Desperately Needs To Become More Acquisitive | We’re on the verge of hearing how Microsoft performed in the last quarter of 2010 – the general consensus seems to be that the world’s largest software maker is set to report a dip in earnings.
We’ll be covering the quarterly earnings relea... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Salesforce Mimics Twitter And Facebook; Adds Likes And @Replies To Chatter | For Salesforce, Chatter is the company’s major foray into the social enterprise and a way to capitalize on the “Facebook for the Enterprise” market. Salesforce Chatter, which was originally announced in November of 2009, was launched into p... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Box.net Upgrades Cloud Storage Platform With New UI, Collaborative Features And More | Today, Box.net unveiled a brand new version of its cloud storage platform. Box’s CEO Aaron Levie says that in creating the new version of Box, the company focused on three key themes—simple, open and mobile. The company now stores 300 milli... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Vidyo Raises Another $11.5 Million For Videoconferencing Solutions | Video conferencing company Vidyo has raised $11.5 million in funding, an SEC filing reveals. Less than a year ago, the company raised $25 million from several VC firms – this financing round brings its total to $73.5 million.
Vidyo enables ... |
| Jan 18, 2011 | IBM Beats The Street; Posts Record Revenue Of $29B, Net Income Up 9 Percent | IBM released strong fourth quarter earnings today, posting record revenue of $29 billion, up 7 percent from the fourth quarter in 2009, and surpassing analyst expectations. EPS were $4.18, up 16 percent; an increase of 16 percent from the s... |
| Jan 18, 2011 | Accel-Backed ScaleXtreme Takes Data Center Management To The Cloud | Data center automation is a hulking $14 billion segment of the enterprise IT industry dominated by hulking giants like IBM, HP (through its $1.6 billion Opsware acquisition), BMC (through its $800 million BladeLogic acquisition in 2008), an... |
| Jan 15, 2011 | The Block Album | Every few eons we get another RSS is dead swarm of stories, usually involving Dave Winer versus the rest of the universe. Sub-themes include dead calling is stupid, I found this post on RSS, and get off your porch grandpa. Typically Dave us... |
| Jan 10, 2011 | Head In The Clouds, Ballmer Pushes STB Head Muglia Out After 23 Years At Microsoft | One of Microsoft’s core strengths is their Server and Tools Business (STB). In fact, it’s a $15 billion a year business for the giant. CEO Steve Ballmer cited that number today in an email to employees announcing the departure of the head o... |
| Jan 4, 2011 | RSS War! (As Fought On Twitter, Naturally) | For 99 percent of you, the following will be way too insidery. But that’s part of what makes TechCrunch great, posting about fights about basically nothing. It’s sort of like Seinfeld, it’s just about the characters. We’ve gotten too far aw... |
| Jan 3, 2011 | Twitter And Facebook Really Are Killing RSS (At Least For TechCrunch Visitors) | Earlier today, we ran a “TechCrunch 2010 In Review” post featuring some key data WordPress.com sent our way for 2010. Interesting stuff all around. However, as some people have noticed, in our top referrers for the year, Facebook is nowhere... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Top 10 RSS and Syndication Technologies of 2010 | “RSS is Dead“, tech sage Steve Gillmor said in May of 2009. I know that’s not true, because I spend a lot of my work and my leisure time reading RSS and other forms of syndicated content feeds.
If you’re not familiar with Really Simple Synd... |
| Dec 21, 2010 | MeLLmo Raises $10 Million For Business Data Visualization App Roambi | MeLLmo, the developer of business data visualization platform Roambi, has raised $10 million in new funding. The startup declined to name its investors in the round but revealed that to date, MeLLmo has raised a total of $20 million in fund... |
| Dec 16, 2010 | Rackspace Buys Server Management Platform Cloudkick | Hosting company Rackspace is acquiring Y Combinator-backed startup Cloudkick, which offers a full-fledged server management system to businesses. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Cloudkick, which launched in early 2009, provides detail... |
| Dec 16, 2010 | Rackspace Buys Server Management Platform Cloudkick (W09) | Hosting company Rackspace is acquiring Y Combinator-backed startup Cloudkick, which offers a full-fledged server management system to businesses.
Full article via techcrunch.com |
| Dec 14, 2010 | CloudBees Acquires Java Platform-as-a-Service Company Stax Networks | Right on the heels of raising $4 million, Java cloud computing startup CloudBees has announced that it has acquired Stax Networks, a pioneering Java Platform-as-a-Service solutions provider.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
To d... |
| Dec 13, 2010 | Confirmed: Dell Buys Storage Company Compellent For $820 Million In Cash | Dell has officially announced that it aims to pick up Compellent, a provider of storage solutions with automated data management features for enterprise and cloud environments, for $27.75 per share in cash for each share of Compellent (a to... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212 Million In Cash | Salesforce.com has just announced that it is acquiring Heroku, which provides a Ruby application platform-as-a-service, for approximately $212 million in cash.
That’s one hell of an exit for the startup, which was founded in 2007 and has r... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212 Million In Cash | Salesforce.com has just announced that it is acquiring Heroku, which provides a Ruby application platform-as-a-service, for approximately $212 million in cash.
That’s one hell of an exit for the startup, which was founded in 2007 and has ra... |
| Dec 7, 2010 | Salesforce Chatter Goes Freemium | In its attempt to bring social streams into the enterprise, Salesforce is taking its Chatter messaging service and making it freemium. Unlike most freemium services which start out free, and then add on premium features for a price, Salesfo... |
| Dec 6, 2010 | Help Desk Software Developer Zendesk Raises $19 Million | Customer support startup Zendesk has raised $19 million in Series C funding led by Matrix Partners with existing investors Benchmark Capital and Charles River Ventures participating in the round. This brings Zendesk’s total funding to over ... |
| Nov 28, 2010 | Symbian Sputters Towards Open-Source Irrelevancy | Remember two years ago when Nokia open-sourced the Symbian mobile operating system? The thinking was that cell phone manufacturers who depended on the Symbian OS could help keep it going. But it was already too late. The iPhone’s iOS and An... |
| Nov 18, 2010 | Google Turns Dozens Of Its Consumer Products Into Enterprise Apps | Earlier this year, Google announced that it would be rolling out Apps interactivity with iGoogle, YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, and other products in the Google family. Today the search giant is making over 60 of its homegrown products availabl... |
| Nov 17, 2010 | Verifone Acquires Electronic Payments Company Hypercom For $485 Million | Electronic payments solutions company VeriFone Systems has just announced the acquisition of Hypercom, a company that sells secure electronic payment and digital transaction technologies. The deal is an all-stock transaction valued at appro... |
| Nov 15, 2010 | EMC Buys Enterprise Data Storage Company Isilon For $2.25 Billion In Cash | Enterprise software giant EMC has just acquired Isilon Systems for $2.25 billion in cash or appoximately $33.85 per share. The deal was rumored to be in the works but now it’s official.
Isilon is know for its “Scale-out NAS” storage systems... |
| Nov 15, 2010 | Data Storage Company Coraid Raises $25 Million Series B | Coraid, a developer of Ethernet SAN storage solutions, this morning announced that it has closed a $25 million Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. All of Coraid’s Series A ($10 million) backers, including Allegis Capital and Azure... |
| Nov 14, 2010 | RSS Is Dead, But Reeder For Mac Makes It A Beautiful Corpse [Preview] | For a long time after the launch of the iPhone, despite thousands of apps for just about everything you can imagine, there was no killer RSS reader app. That changed when the 2.0 version of Reeder arrived earlier this year. It’s so good tha... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | thingd: The Super Ambitious, Low-Profile But Red Hot Startup You've Never Heard Of | The New York Observer has shined a light on thingd, a stealthy New York-based startup that is currently attracting a lot of high-profile attention – and funds – in tech circles. Turns out it’s a pretty ambitious venture run by some really s... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | Broadvision Launches Clearvale 2.0 | BroadVision is launching a new version of Clearvale, a “networks of networks” for the social enterprise. Launched to the public earlier this year, Clearvale provides businesses with the tools, and infrastructure to instantly create enterpri... |
| Nov 9, 2010 | Zuora Rings Up $20 Million For Billings-As-A-Service Platform | Zuora, a SaaS startup that offers online services to manage and automate customer subscriptions and payments, has raised $20 million in Series C funding led by Redpoint Ventures with the startup’s existing investors; Benchmark Capital, Marc... |
| Nov 8, 2010 | Socialtext 4.5 Launches With More Powerful Search Filters, Salesforce Connector And More | The enterprise social networking space is competitive; which is why companies like Salesforce, Jive, Yammer, Socialcast and others continue to innovate at a rapid pace. Another competitor, Socialtext, which offers an enterprise social softw... |
| Nov 4, 2010 | Exclusive: Bloglines Will Be Resurrected By IAC-Funded MerchantCircle | The saga continues. After informing us in September that the IAC-owned Bloglines was to be shut down permanently, Ask.com (the IAC property that operates Bloglines) has resurrected the troubled RSS feeder, the company tells TechCrunch exclu... |
| Nov 2, 2010 | Here's The Cloud Computing Company Dell Is Buying: Boomi | Dell has just announced it has agreed to acquire Software-as-a-Service integration company Boomi. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and, as usual, the purchase is subject to customary closing conditions. Dell did not say when it expects ... |
| Nov 2, 2010 | Cloud Sherpas Raises Another $1.6 Million To Migrate Businesses To Google Apps | Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps reseller that also helps enterprises migrate to and manage the productivity suite, has raised another $1.6 million in funding led by Syncarpha Capital, Vento Security Holdings and Hallett Capital, the investment... |
| Oct 28, 2010 | Box.net Upgrades Personal And Business Data Plans To Include More Storage In The Cloud | Cloud-based storage and sharing application Box.net is making a big data storage upgrade to its free and paid plans today. The company is increasing the data storage amounts for its personal, business, and enterprise plans.
Box’s personal s... |
| Oct 26, 2010 | Cloudera Lands $25 Million For Hadoop Distribution To The Enterprise | Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, has raised $25 million in a Series C financing led by Meritech Capital Partners with previous investors Accel Partne... |
| Oct 22, 2010 | HP Closes $1.5 Billion Acquisition Of ArcSight | Hewlett-Packard this morning announced that it has now completed the acquisition of security and compliance management company ArcSight for $43.50 per share, or an enterprise value of $1.5 billion.
ArcSight helps protect enterprises and gov... |
| Oct 21, 2010 | IBM Buys Financial Governance Software Company Clarity Systems | IBM is announcing the acquisition of yet another company today: Toronto-based financial governance software company Clarity Systems. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Clarity Systems’ software allows organizations to automate ... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Microsoft Rolls Up Cloud Services Into Office 365, Takes Aim At Google Apps | Today at an event in San Francisco, Microsoft’s Office division is unveiling a new product: a suite of the company’s productivity services called Office 365.
Before now, Microsoft’s business-facing cloud services have been broken up in a fe... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | Microsoft's Ray Ozzie To Step Down As Chief Software Architect | Microsoft has just announced that Ray Ozzie, the company’s Chief Software Architect is stepping down from this position. The full letter CEO Steve Ballmer sent to employees is pasted below.
Ozzie assumed the chief software architect’s role ... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | IBM Beats The Street; Posts Revenues Of $24.3 Billion, Net Income Up 12 Percent | IBM released strong third quarter earnings today, posting revenue of $24.3 billion, up 3 percent from the third quarter in 2009, and surpassing analyst expectations. EPS were $2.82 per share, compared with diluted earnings of $2.40 per shar... |
| Oct 17, 2010 | SuccessFactors Acquires YouCalc To Offer Cloud-Based Realtime Analytics Platform | Cloud-based software company SuccessFactors has just announced a recent acquisition—Danish company YouCalc, which lets business create and share custom reports and analytics on data from the cloud. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Alon... |
| Oct 14, 2010 | Cloudkick Now Managing 1 Million Servers | Cloudkick, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that offers a free server management system to businesses, has hit a few milestones today. The startup is now managing 1,000,000 servers around the world.
Cloudkick provides detailed graphs on the... |
| Oct 14, 2010 | Cloudkick (W09) Now Managing 1 Million Servers | Cloudkick, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that offers a free server management system to businesses, has hit a few milestones today. The startup is now managing 1,000,000 servers around the world.
Full article via techcrunchit.com |
