Saturday December 21, 2024

RIM’s PlayBook Push: Buy Two, Get One Free

RIM’s ailing PlayBook has seen its fair share of price cuts at your local big box retailers, but here’s a deal just for all you businessfolk out there. From now until the end of the 2011, RIM is running a buy-two-get-one-free deal on their tablets through their network of authorized resellers. The announcement makes no […]

Competing Against The Big Guys

Editor’s note: This post was written by guest contributor Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box.net. His last post on TechCrunch was Go Forth and Conquer. The narrative of the little guy going up against the hulking giant is baked into the history of Silicon Valley, starting with the traitorous eight leaving Shockley Semiconductor to subsequently found Intel, AMD, […]

Customer Support Solution Provider UserVoice Launches New Reporting Tools

UserVoice, makers of tools for managing customer support and feedback, is today launching a new reporting tool for businesses using its “Instant Answers” service. The service, which is built into the UserVoice Full Service system, allows companies to automatically connect their help requests to available Knowledge Base entries in order to provide an immediate answer to incoming queries. […]

Small businesses have a false sense of security about Internet access

Most small business owners believe that Internet security is critical to their success and that their companies are safe from cyber security threats: but most fail to take fundamental precautions. This is the major finding from a survey of US small businesses. The survey found that two-thirds (67 percent) of US small businesses have become […]

Prysm Raises 100M In Equity Funding, Begins Volume Production Of Its Laser Phosphor Displays

Behind the lasers and mirrors, Prysm is turning from a scrappy start-up to a major player. The company is announcing today an additional $100 million in equity funding, bringing their total raised financing to $135M. This latest round of funding comes Partech International and Artiman Ventures along with several global unnamed investors that wish to […]

Red Gate Acquires Microsoft Partner And BizSpark Company Cerebrata

Red Gate this morning announced that it has acquired Cerebrata, an India-based maker of tools that helps developers build applications that run on Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform. In fact, Cerebrate is not only a Microsoft partner but also one of their BizSpark startups. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but we’re told Cerebrata will […]

Online Storage Service Backblaze Now More Unlimited Than Unlimited

Online store and backup service provider Backblaze this morning released version 2.0 of its flagship product, bumping up the allowed file size for storage and backups up to ‘unlimited’ and bringing other enhancements to the table. The company has actually always provided unlimited storage – and “unthrottled bandwidth” – for five bucks a month, but […]

Atlassian Redesigns Website; Launches A La Carte, SaaS Service For Product Development

Atlassian, the enterprise software company, has really hit its stride over the last few years. Founded in 2002 in Sydney, the company has today built a solid base of 26,000 customers, which include some big names like Facebook, Zynga, Cisco, and Adobe. In July of last year, the startup raised $60 million from Accel to […]

Device Identification Startup BlueCava Lands $9.5M From S3 Ventures, Mark Cuban

Exclusive – BlueCava, a startup that has developed technology that enables its customers to identify unique connected devices such as smartphones, TV set-top boxes, gaming consoles, computers and more, has raised $9.5 million in funding in a round led by VC firm S3 Ventures. Earlier backers, angel investors and billionaires Mark Cuban and Tim Headington, […]

GroupLogic Launches MobilEcho 3.0

Enterprise I.T. company GroupLogic is today unveiling the latest update to its mobilEcho Mobile File Management (MFM) service with the launch of mobilEcho 3.0. Most importantly, the new version now adds support for the iPhone, in addition to the previously supported iPad. And the company says it will have support for Android by next quarter. […]