Mobile communication, marketing and commerce platform vendor Movitas has raised $3 million in a new round of financing from a group of private investors, the company announced earlier this morning, self-reportedly thanks to its success with hotels, holiday resorts and the likes. Movitas says it will use the additional capital to enhance its mobile platform […]
Posted on July 21st, 2010 by admin
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Leading analyst firm Gartner has named Accenture the 2009 western Europe leader in market share and revenue in three key solution categories: operations system support, billing systems support and service delivery platform. Gartner released this ranking in a report entitled "Market Share: Telecom Operations Management Systems (BSS, OSS and SDP), EMEA, 2007-2009," authored by Martina […]
Posted on July 21st, 2010 by admin
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As more enterprises and SMBs flock to the cloud, the need for cost-effective management platforms has increased. Cloud management startup Skydera is launching today as a centralized platform to manage multiple cloud environments. Incubated in the Founder Institute, Skydera is a platform to manage servers, deploy applications, control user access, track usage and centralize billing. […]
Posted on July 21st, 2010 by admin
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Mark Angelino, formerly vice president at IBM and President at Sprint, was responsible for the adoption of Salesforce’s sales, call center and platform services in North America from May 2009 until last month. As you can tell from the screenshot above, he left Salesforce.com in June to become Senior Vice President at another company, but […]
Posted on July 20th, 2010 by admin
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IBM reported steady second quarter earnings today, with net income rising 9 percent compared to the second quarter of 2009, to $3.4 billion. Big Blue’s diluted earnings increased 13 percent to $2.61 per share compared with diluted earnings of $2.32 per share in the second quarter of 2009, beating the street estimate of $2.58 per […]
Posted on July 20th, 2010 by admin
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Data center automation company Puppet Labs this morning announced that it has raised $5 million in funding, bringing the total amount of capital invested in the fledging startup to $7 million. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the Series B round, while existing investors True Ventures and Radar Partners – which participated in the Series […]
Posted on July 19th, 2010 by admin
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Backupify, a startup that provides online backup, archiving and export services for cloud-based social media and SaaS data, is rolling out its application for Google Apps. This will allow any Google Apps users to backup all data stored in their Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Contact and Sites accounts. Designed for SMBs using Google Apps, Backupify uses […]
Posted on July 17th, 2010 by admin
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Long before he was part of the powerful investing duo behind venture fund Andreessen Horowitz, Ben Horowitz was a co-founder and CEO of Opsware (previously known as Loudcloud) a pioneer for cloud computing companies (Opsware was eventually sold to HP in 2007 for $1.6 billion). He’s considered an expert in the cloud so his first […]
Posted on July 17th, 2010 by admin
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Zoho’s project collaboration product and Basecamp-rival, Zoho Projects, is getting a much needed feature today: a Bug Tracking tool. Zoho Projects is a team collaboration and project management application that allows teams to plan, track and collaborate on everyday activities and big software projects with external customers. Tracking software bugs and then prioritizing these bugs […]
Posted on July 16th, 2010 by admin
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EnterpriseDB has raised $7.5 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. We’ve confirmed the funding with the company. Investors in the round include Translink Capital, KT, Charles River Ventures, and Valhalla Partners. This brings the company’s total funding to over $50 million. EnterpriseDB, which took an investment from Red Hat last year, offers commercial […]
Posted on July 16th, 2010 by admin
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