Online collaboration company FuzeBox has raised a hefty $20 million in Series A funding. The company is probably best known for its Fuze Meeting products, allowing customers to run online meetings (complete with HD video) on their computers, tablets, and samrtphones. FuzeBox says its technology is now powering 78,000 meetings per day in 122 countries. […]
Posted on July 12th, 2012 by admin
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Kinvey, the TechStars startup out of Boston that provides a unique backend as a service (BaaS), has closed $5 million in a new Series-A round of financing, led by Avalon Ventures with Atlas Venture following on. Kinvey previously raised a $2 million seed round in August last year. Kinvey wants to be the company that […]
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I am moderating an IBM tweetchat that starts in just a few minutes at 10 a.m. PST. The topic: “The Economics of IT – Cost and Benefits of Integrated Systems.” Follow the hashtag #ExpertSysChat to participate. There is a debate about the relationship between the cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the solutions oriented […]
Posted on July 11th, 2012 by admin
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Seculert has raised a $5.35 million round of funding today led by Norwest Venture Partners for the Israeli company’s next generation advanced threat detection service. The company’s software-as-a-service detects back doors in your network, discovering malware attacks that have previously gone undetected. As much as the cloud is for developing cool apps, it is also […]
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Research in Motion (RIM) is investing $100 million to grow the developer community for the BlackBerry platform, according to e27, a blog covering the Asia tech scene. The immediate question that comes to mind: “Is it too late?” RIM is trying to save $1 billion after losing 95% of its market share since 1998. It […]
Posted on July 10th, 2012 by admin
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GoInstant made its debut at TechCrunch Disrupt last fall. Today, the browser collaboration startup has reportedly been acquired by Salesforce.com for $70 million, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. [GoInstant has since confirmed the acquisition.] GoInstant allows people to surf the web with each other without having to download an extra plugin or software. […]
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Andreessen Horowitz is investing an eye-popping $100 million into GitHub, the ever popular repository for developers to post code and collaborate. It’s GitHub’s first infusion of venture capital.Co- founder Tom Preston-Warner said the round will go to developing GitHub Enterprise, a server side version of GitHub.com. Since its debut in 2008, GitHub has become an […]
Posted on July 9th, 2012 by admin
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Gartner has updated its forecasts on IT spend worldwide: spend in areas like hardware, software, and IT services are going to drive total investment of $3.6 trillion into IT overall. Gartner calls that number “lackluster,” in that it’s only slightly higher than Gartner projected last month, and only three percent more than 2011′s $3.5 trillion […]
Posted on July 9th, 2012 by admin
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These are numbers any startup would love to post. In its first day, Bridge signed up 1,000 developers. In the span of one week the messaging platform has delivered more than 60 million messages. It has had more than 500 server downloads. In January, the startup previously known as Flotype, announced it had raised $1.4 […]
Posted on July 8th, 2012 by admin
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The flight is boarding and you are in a rush. You get on the plane. At 10,000 feet, you reach into your bag. Your laptop is not there. It happens all the time. In fact, according to a new survey, more than 8,000 devices are left at seven of the largest airports in the United […]
Posted on July 8th, 2012 by admin
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