GlobalSCAPE, which specializes in information exchange solutions for enterprise customers, this morning announced that it has acquired TappIn, maker of an eponymous cloud-based file access and sharing solution. TappIn, formerly known as HomePipe Networks, was picked up for $9 million in cash, though shareholders stand to receive another $8 million if certain performance-based milestones are […]
Posted on December 7th, 2011 by admin
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Today Red Hat announces the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, the latest iteration of their flagship Linux distribution. I don’t usually cover every point release of every Linux distribution, but since I’ve covered recent releases from Canonical and SUSE I thought I’d give Red Hat some coverage, too. RHEL 6.2 is in some […]
Posted on December 6th, 2011 by admin
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Hewlett-Packard has acquired a German company called HIFLEX, based in Aachen, which develops software that helps companies in the print and media industries automate their business and technical processes. HIFLEX products include HIFLEX MIS (Management Information System), HIFLEX Print Support and an open web-to-print system dubbed HIFLEX Webshop. Read more at TechCrunch Europe. Tweet This […]
Posted on December 6th, 2011 by admin
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Virtualization data management software maker Actifio has raised $33.5 million in a Series C financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with previous backers North Bridge Venture Partners, Greylock Partners and Advanced Technology Ventures participating. Founded in 2010, the startup has secured a total of $57.5 million in venture capital funding to date. Actifio bills itself […]
Posted on December 5th, 2011 by admin
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It’s been only a month since SimpleGeo co-founder Joe Stump left his last company, following its acquisition by Urban Airship, but he’s already launching a new product (and company) today called Sprintly. The company was actually founded in March by Stump’s co-founder Graham Blache, and Stump tells me he’s “been plotting this product for nearly a […]
Posted on December 4th, 2011 by admin
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Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Dan Kaplan, who leads Product Marketing for Twilio and writes occasionally about the extrapolation of the present into the future. Before Twilio, he worked as a contractor in Product Marketing for Salesforce. Follow him @dankaplan or find him on Quora. You’ve got to hand it to Salesforce: […]
Posted on December 4th, 2011 by admin
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There are plenty of companies out there that help you monitor social media activity. Awe.sm has been going deeper into what’s really going on, providing a service that lets developers track all the crucial details of sharing activities, and automatically optimize their own services using that data. Having accumulated some 500 clients using its technology […]
Posted on December 3rd, 2011 by admin
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For the last few months there’s been a a lot of chatter about a big play coming to aim at the world of collaboration and documents. What on earth could someone do that is new in this space, I hear you ask? Well, that’s a fair point, but for whatever reason they’ve just secured a […]
Posted on December 3rd, 2011 by admin
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Zentyal, the Zaragoza, Spain-based maker of the Zentyal Linux small business server, has raised $1 million in Series A funding from freshly financed and Europe-focused venture capital firm Open Ocean Capital. Zentyal develops a server solution that combines cloud-based services to make network management easy and secure for small and medium-sized businesses. Basically, it’s an […]
Posted on December 2nd, 2011 by admin
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Bsecure, a provider of online family protection software, has been acquired by Internet and mobile security giant AVG Technologies. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Bsecure says it has provided cloud-based technology and parent controls software in the Internet filtering industry since 2001. The company has long been a partner of AVG partner […]
Posted on December 2nd, 2011 by admin
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