As expected, EMC shuffled the deck today. It named COO Pat Gelsinger as the new VMware CEO, replacing Paul Maritz who has moved into a new role as EMC’s chief strategist. Yesterday I reported that Maritz was out as VMware’s CEO and was being considered as a replacement for EMC CEO Joe Tucci, who is […]
Posted on July 18th, 2012 by admin
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Egnyte has raised $16 million from Google Ventures for its cloud file storage solution. Existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Polaris Ventures also participated in the Series C round. Egnyte provides a service that stores documents in a cloud environment with the file appearing on the desktop with shared and private folders. For instance, […]
Posted on July 17th, 2012 by admin
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Paul Maritz is out as the CEO of VMware and will be replaced by EMC COO Pat Gelsinger. Maritz spent four years at VMware. It’s uncertain what he will do but rumors have swirled all day about about his departure. CRN has a story that puts Gelsinger in charge of VMware with Maritz taking the […]
Posted on July 17th, 2012 by admin
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Evernote, the multi-platform app that lets you capture notes, audio and images when you are on the go, and then access those mementos wherever you want to next, has carved out a position as one of the more consistently useful services out there for smartphone consumers. The growing number of users is a testament to […]
Posted on July 16th, 2012 by admin
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Today comes another step in Twilio’s march to take over how web and mobile apps communicate to their users. The company is ramping up its SMS service, which now supports languages like Arabic, Chinese and Japanese; and interconnects with over 1,000 carriers in over 150 countries. These are both big expansions for Twilio, which previously […]
Posted on July 15th, 2012 by admin
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There are still a lot of questions about this alleged Yahoo Voices data breach — including whether there was a reason behind the breach in the first place — but Yahoo has now officially confirmed that the data did in fact come from its servers, and that “approximately” 400,000 email addresses and passwords have been […]
Posted on July 15th, 2012 by admin
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The future of customer service is less about the people than it is the sound of a person or the virtual image of an individual. Humans are just so inefficient. But they can be improved, too, through interfaces that provide them more automated capabilities. Salefsorce.com is on the edge of this trend. It continues to acquire companies […]
Posted on July 14th, 2012 by admin
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Lightspeed Venture Partners has had a phenomenal run in the next generation storage market. In the past 12 to 14 months, four of its portfolio companies have been acquired and one has gone to IPO. Here they are: XtremIO sold in May to EMC for an estimated $430 million. In June, SK Hynix said it will acquire […]
Posted on July 14th, 2012 by admin
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Austin-based video startup latakoo just scored a major deal NBC News and parent company NBC Universal, which involves the launch of a pilot program to integrate the service into its newsrooms, following a period of testing. The company, for those unfamiliar, has been working to make videographers’ lives easier by offering tools to move large SD or HD […]
Posted on July 13th, 2012 by admin
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Updated Electronic signature platform DocuSign has raised $47.5 million in Series D funding. The round was first revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the company just sent me a few details. DocuSign has also confirmed that Mary Meeker, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner (and former Morgan Stanley analyst) […]
Posted on July 13th, 2012 by admin
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