Today sees the launch of the Social Business Index, a project from social business services company Dachis Group. In essence, the information service aims to provide some insights into how ‘social’ companies are, and how they stack up against similar corporations in their respective industries and their competitors, and provide some ‘social business’ benchmarks by […]
Posted on September 13th, 2011 by admin
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Common types of malware delivery mechanisms: Software updates: Malware posts invitations inside social media sites, inviting users to view a video. The link tries to trick users into believing they need to update their current software to view the video. The software offered is malicious. Banner ads: Sometimes called malvertising, unsuspecting users click on a […]
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10gen, a company which offers enterprises a big data database built off of MongoDB, has raised $20 million in financing, led by Sequoia Capital and with participation from 10gen’s other existing investors Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures. This brings the company’s total funding to over $30 million. Similar to the way Cloudera commercializes Apache […]
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Broadcom this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire NetLogic Microsystems, which delivers a range of semiconductor solutions. Under the agreement, NetLogic shareholders will receive $50 per share in a transaction of approximately $3.7 billion, net of cash assumed. Netlogic’s share price closed at $31.91 last Friday. With the acquisition, Broadcom expands its infrastructure […]
Posted on September 12th, 2011 by admin
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When criminals compromise financial institutions and other corporate targets, often the victims like to keep it as quiet as possible. At least the new wave of very public assaults shines a bright light on the poor state of security. Businesses, government agencies, and educational institutions reported 50 percent more data breaches in 2008 than in […]
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The first email hit TechCrunch’s tip line at 11:32 EDT. Others quickly followed saying the same thing: major Microsoft cloud services are down worldwide. Hotmail, Skydrive, and Microsoft’s recently launched Google Docs competitor, Office 365 were all unaccessable. Users took to twitter and our tip line to express their rage, but then approximately four hours […]
Posted on September 9th, 2011 by admin
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Qosmos, a Paris, France-based network intelligence technology company, has raised close to €20 million euros (approximately $28.5 million) in a deal that was co-led by DFJ Esprit and FSI, a French government fund. The deal, which closed at the end of last month, is a combination of primary equity and debt and a secondary purchase […]
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Platfora, a startup focused on bringing businesses intelligence from big data, raised $5.7 million in Series A funding
led by Andreessen Horowitz with intelligence technology company In-Q-Tel participating. Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Scott Weiss is joining the board as part of the investment. Ben Werther, founder and CEO of Platfora, explains that
Hadoop one of […]
Posted on September 8th, 2011 by admin
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Cloud Platform startup Morphlabs has raised $5 million in Series C funding. The round was led by strategic partners BBT of Japan and a private, Indonesia-based investor group. This brings the startup’s total funding to $12 million. MorphLabs offers a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that virtualizes the application environment through the use of open […]
Posted on September 7th, 2011 by admin
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Austin, Texas-based startup Spanning launched a new version of its Google Apps backup service today, which now includes business-grade backup for Gmail. Previously, the company provided backup for other Google Apps products, including Google Calendar, Docs, and Contacts, but, says, Spanning Cloud Apps founder and CEO Charlie Wood, “Gmail backup has been, by far, the […]
Posted on September 6th, 2011 by admin
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