Airband, a provider of fixed wireless voice and data services to businesses, this morning announced that it has secured $20 million in financing from Boston-based ABRY Partners, which also got a seat on Airband’s board of directors. Airband, which offers Internet access, data services, VoIP, security and other solutions, says it plans to expand network […]
Posted on August 12th, 2011 by admin
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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 BlackBerry, but the company’s mobile site was lacking in functionality. Which is why Box has […]
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Your organization needs to identify and develop mobile security policies to be deployed which will provide adequate protection. The level of protection has to be aligned with the level of risk that your organization is willing to accept. These policies should ensure that the many regulatory or compliance concerns that might be applicable are addressed. […]
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Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, is announcing a comprehensive partner program today for the companies that use its services. Hadoop is a Java software framework born out of an open-source implementation of Google’s published computing infrastructure which is fostered within the Apache Software Foundation. […]
Posted on August 11th, 2011 by admin
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NoSQL database company Couchbase, created earlier this year through the merger of CouchOne (co-founded by the creator of CouchDB) and Membase (founded by the key developers behind memcached), has scored $14 million in a Series C round of funding. The financing round was led by Ignition Partners with participation from the company’s existing backers Accel […]
Posted on August 10th, 2011 by admin
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BigTime Software, which offers cloud-based productivity software tools to professional services firms, this morning announced that it has raised $2 million in Series A funding in a round from LTC Partners, Geneva Venture Investment Management, Hickory Grove and Howell Capital. The company delivers time, billing and practice management software-as-a-service that integrates with Intuit QuickBooks to […]
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Privately held Quark, which develops publishing software for professional designers and enterprises and is best known for its QuarkXPress (QXP) desktop publishing layout editor, has been acquired by Platinum Equity, a private equity firm that specializes in mergers and acquisitions. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Brian Wall, the partner at Platinum Equity […]
Posted on August 9th, 2011 by admin
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Compuware’s benchmarks division, Gomez, has just released new data from a website measurement project whose goal was to determine what the fastest web browser is in the “real world” of desktop users. The project only measured load times of users on broadband connections. The data, collected over a one-month time frame, captured the results of […]
Posted on August 9th, 2011 by admin
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Enterprise cloud app management company Okta has raised $16.5 million in Series B funding from Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and FLOODGATE. This brings the company’s total funding to $28 million. Okta is a cloud application management service. Okta’s platform allows companies to have control of their users, applications, and data both in the […]
Posted on August 8th, 2011 by admin
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Redmond giant has been chastised for failing to take the lead when new technology rears its head or for being ‘out of touch’ in general. On that note, Microsoft took a bit of a hit earlier this week, when the company’s general counsel lamented the shortage of good IT workers. His solution? Petition the U.S. […]
Posted on August 7th, 2011 by admin
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