Autodesk took to the wires this morning to announce its acquisition of a long-standing partner, Vela Systems, which is described in the announcement as “a provider of cloud and mobile field management software for the construction industry.” It’s Autodesk’s hope that this move will better equip the company, and the whole construction industry for that […]
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These days, disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) are not abstract concepts, as the cost of a business disruption can run into millions of dollars. What’s more, it can lead to residual problems, including a tarnished reputation and brand. Many organizations are not entirely prepared for disasters. They have inadequate systems and processes in […]
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In early 2011, former U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and team helped institute a “Cloud First” policy, which aimed to speed up the government’s internal adoption of cloud computing and services. Since then, many government agencies have begun moving their collaboration and productivity applications to the cloud. Today, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) became […]
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Editor’s note: Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) is an industry analyst with the Altimeter Group. Bots in Facebook? Robots in Twitter? Pinterest Run by HAL 9000? It’s all very possible. That’s right, surprisingly. in the next phase of the social web, brands are applying analysis and digital intelligence to better reach us. Here’s how it’s gonna go […]
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“People crave feedback on their professional lives,” say Brendan Wallace and Adeyemi Ajao, co-founders and co-CEOs of Identified, a young San Francisco-based startup that has been hard at work at gamifying the job search. Today, while millions of resumes live in the cloud on sites like LinkedIn, job seekers still aren’t providing all the relevant […]
Posted on June 6th, 2012 by admin
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Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a new initiative that is set to significantly expand the number of generic top-level domains (gTLDs), allowing companies, organizations, and anyone in between to buy their own domain name extensions — like .google, .rip, .ROFL, etc. ICANN recently closed its window for domain […]
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Clarizen, a company offering online project management tools, has raised $12 million in Series E funding. The round was led by Vintage Partners, with past backers Benchmark Capital, Carmel Ventures, DAG Ventures, and Opus Capital also investing. Clarizen has now been raised a total of $49 million, most recently announcing a $12 million round about […]
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Seattle-based Mobilisafe, a mobile security startup backed by $1.2 million in funding from Madrona Venture Group, Trilogy Equity Partnership and T-Venture, is exiting its private beta program and launching publicly today. The company’s cloud-based Mobile Risk Management (MRM) solution aims to help companies deal with the ever-increasing number of personal devices on corporate networks, but takes things a step […]
Posted on June 4th, 2012 by admin
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One more Y Combinator startup from the March 2012 class has bagged a seed round of funding. PlanGrid, which has created a groundbreaking app for the construction industry, has raised $1.1 million from a notable list of backers. They include Suleman Ali, founder and CEO of TinyCo; Sam Altman, founder of Loopt; Paul Buchheit, the creator […]
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No, NFC still hasn’t come to the iPhone — or many other devices, for that matter. But this does not appear to be stopping the momentum in the world of mobile payments. Research out today from Gartner says that this year will see more than $171.5 billion in mobile payment transactions — a rise of […]
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