Oracle has acquired Endeca, a company that powers enterprise search for large companies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Endeca has raised a total of $65 million from Bessemer, Venrock, Intel, SAP, Ampersand Capital Partners, DN Capital and Lehman Brothers. Endeca’s core technology enables companies to correlate and analyze unstructured data and provides […]
Posted on October 18th, 2011 by admin
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Today, at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff took the stage to talk about the current landscape of the cloud for the first time since the public back-and-forth between himself and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. For those unfamiliar, earlier this month, Ellison cancelled Benioff’s keynote talk at The Oracle OpenWorld […]
Posted on October 18th, 2011 by admin
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SohoOS is on a tear. Users are growing at a rate of 30% month-over-month, just recently shooting past 400,000. And soon, the company will make a hard bet on a brand-new design — a complete revamp — aimed at singeing it into the backbone of the small businesses it serves. Some background: SohoOS offers small […]
Posted on October 17th, 2011 by admin
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Tradeshift, the free invoicing platform aiming to be a kind of social network for B2B processes, broke cover last year and since raised a significant $7m round from Notion Capital among others, such as PayPal. Dubbed “Skype for invoicing”, now Tradeshift is shifting up a gear to address a big problem. Getting paid fast is […]
Posted on October 17th, 2011 by admin
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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning are impacted by Data Center consolidation that centralizes productivity applications. As enterprises reduce the overall number of data centers, consolidating remote and branch office assets in the process Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity become more critical. According to an international research firm, 41% of large organizations have consolidated most […]
Posted on October 17th, 2011 by admin
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Marketo, a company that provides an on-demand marketing software that allows businesses to optimize their sales and marketing efforts, is launching a new product today tailored to small businesses. Similar to Marketo’s SaaS for the enterprise, Spark aims to help businesses create revenue via channels like e-mail, lead generation, and optimization of site visits. Spark […]
Posted on October 16th, 2011 by admin
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Mobile device management company Zenprise, Inc. today announced it has raised $30 million in new financing. The round was led by Silicon Valley-based Greylock Partners, with participation from all of Zenprise’s existing investors. The investment will be used to support the company’s growth, and accelerate product development, sales and marketing efforts. As part of this new funding round, […]
Posted on October 16th, 2011 by admin
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After a long illness, Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and an esteemed computer scientist, died last weekend at the age of 70. Ritchie, also known as “dmr”, is best know for creating the C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson. Ritchie spent most of his […]
Posted on October 15th, 2011 by admin
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Microsoft this morning announced that it has closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, a deal that was originally announced back in May. They even made an infographic to showcase the importance of the deal completion. /sarcasm Other than that, not much news to report. As previously announced, Skype becomes a new business division within […]
Posted on October 15th, 2011 by admin
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At the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City this week, Yottaa, the startup that specializes in offering cloud-based web performance monitoring and analytics services, announced that it is now officially expanding into the speed optimization game as well, offering websites a quick and easy way to accelerate their websites. Yottaa is bringing its so-called […]
Posted on October 14th, 2011 by admin
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