Joining recent tech companies MobiTV, Angie’s List, Brightcove, and Jive; Guidewire Software, a company that develops technologies for the insurance industry, has filed its S-1. The company aims to raise as much as $100 million in a public offering under the symbol “GWRE.” Founded in 2001, Guidewire Software provides technology software to the property, casualty, […]
Posted on September 5th, 2011 by admin
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Cisco this morning announced that it has acquired San Francisco startup Versly, a privately-held company that develops collaboration tools that integrate with Microsoft Office applications. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but all Versly employees will be integrated into Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group (CSG) upon the close of the acquisition. Versly builds plug-ins […]
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Vitrue, a social media marketing company, is rolling out version 3.0 of its social media management platform for brands. New features include localization and enhanced analytics and metrics within one dashboard interface. As we’ve written in the past, Vitrue’s SaaS platform allows brands and marketing agencies to communicate with fans and consumers across Facebook, YouTube […]
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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 networks and databases including Twitter, Facebook, Reuters, and SEC filings, to give businesses sales intelligence and information that will […]
Posted on September 4th, 2011 by admin
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There’s more good news for the growth of the social enterprise. Gartner is reporting today that the social customer relationship management (CRM) market is forecast to reach over $1 billion in revenue by year-end 2012, up from approximately $625 million in 2010. Worldwide social CRM is projected to total $820 million in 2011. Gartner says […]
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IBM is announcing the acquisition of i2, a company that provides intelligence and investigation management software for law enforcement, defense, national security and private sector organizations. Financial terms were not disclosed. With more than 4,500 customers in 150 countries, i2 is provides intelligence analytics for crime and fraud prevention in sectors such as banking, defense, […]
Posted on September 3rd, 2011 by admin
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GraphOn, a developer of cloud application delivery solutions, this morning announced that it has secured $7.1 million in equity financing in a private placement to a group of investors, employing intellectual property investment bank MDB Capital Group as its sole agent. GraphOn sold 35.5 million shares of its common stock at $0.20 per share. GraphOn […]
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Visier, which builds ‘analytic applications for human resources’, has raised $6 million in funding according to an SEC filing published this morning. It’s the startup’s first institutional venture funding round since its inception in 2010. Notably, Visier was co-founded by ex-Business Objectives chief and SAP exec John Schwarz (CEO) and Ryan Wong (CTO), who held […]
Posted on September 2nd, 2011 by admin
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Samsung made it known at last night’s big announcement that they intended the Galaxy S II series to be more IT-friendly than its predecessor: improved Exchange support and on-device data encryption were just some of the highlights. This was apparently just the tip of the IT iceberg, as VMware has just announced a partnership with […]
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Is IBM making up for lost time? After acquiring crime data intelligence software developer i2 yesterday, Big Blue is announcing another purchase this morning. The company is buying Canadian risk management analytics software developer Algorithmics for $387 million. Algorithmics’ risk analytics software, content and advisory services are used by banks, investment and insurance businesses to […]
Posted on September 1st, 2011 by admin
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