DeveloperAuction has built what they call the “first transparent marketplace for recruitment,” allowing engineers to put their talent up for auction from startups that need talent. In the company’s first auction, which ended August 31st, 88 engineers put themselves up for auction and 142 startups, including Quora and Dropbox, submitted over $30m in job offers. […]
Posted on September 7th, 2012 by admin
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If we’ve said it once, we’ll say it again. Many startups and businesses have sought the Holy Grail of collaboration/task management software — in other words, offering a product that’s flexible, intuitive, reliable and affordable enough to gobble market share like Cookie Monster — and many have fallen short. There’s plenty of opportunity left for […]
Posted on September 6th, 2012 by admin
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Recurly had some very bad news for its clients this morning but at least initial fixes are now on the way. A cascading hardware failure erased some end customer recurring billing info, preventing them from processing payments and essentially requiring them to ask customers to re-sign up for their subscriptions. Considering people often forget about the subscriptions […]
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It’s a classic quandary — getting people to participate in online communities can be hard, but getting people to participate well in online communities is even harder. To that end, behavioral management platform Badgeville has announced a new effort to bring its engagement-fostering gamification service to Drupal communities that want to reward their users for […]
Posted on September 5th, 2012 by admin
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Doctors social network Doximity has raised another $17 million at a ballpark $80 million valuation led by Morgenthaler Ventures, TechCrunch understands from sources. We’ve reached out to the company for confirmation. That would make this Doximity’s Series B financing round. In March last year it launched with a Series A round of $10.8 million from […]
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So much for that. In a victory for all of us who find the idea of trying to trademark generic-sounding terms tedious — and a victory, too, for those who actually work in the world of social enterprise — Salesforce.com has announced that it has withdrawn its applications to trademark the term “social enterprise,” originally […]
Posted on September 4th, 2012 by admin
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At LinuxCon and CloudOpen this week, attendees are being bombarded with cloud, cloud, cloud. Most of the cloud goings-on revolve around OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service project started by Rackspace and NASA. Today SUSE announced their SUSE Cloud product, which is a commercially supported version of OpenStack integreated with SUSE Linux. Red Hat has an […]
Posted on September 4th, 2012 by admin
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Zscaler, a provider of cloud security services to small businesses, corporates and service providers, has raised a hefty $38 million round led by an unnamed investor, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners. This is the first outside investment ever taken by Zscaler, which was founded in 2007, and had in the past been funded internally. The […]
Posted on September 3rd, 2012 by admin
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Over the past few days I’ve been in San Francisco for VMware’s annual show and in San Diego to spend some time with the technologists at CloudOpen – the Linux Foundation’s first cloud only event. The two shows demonstrate how the cloud world is maturing. And as it matures, the stakes will get higher. This […]
Posted on September 3rd, 2012 by admin
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Oracle has issued a security alert for a Java vulnerability that if exploited can give attackers control and access to a user’s personal information. The vulnerability means that attackers can access a user’s data without the need for a user name or password. Reading between the lines here and it appears that victims could fall […]
Posted on September 3rd, 2012 by admin
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