Wi-Fi equipment maker Ruckus Wireless held an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange this morning at a share price of $15. It raised $126 million. While it was a nice move for the company, as well as its venture capital investors (Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures and others had provided some $54 million […]
Posted on November 17th, 2012 by admin
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Dell is making a deeper investment in providing converged infrastructures to automate data center operations with the acquisition of Gale Technologies. As part of the purchase, Dell plans to create a separate business group focused on enterprise systems and solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Gale Technologies is a privately held company that […]
Posted on November 16th, 2012 by admin
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At the Defrag conference in Broomfield, Colo., this week, three themes came in the forefront: APIs, identity and data. The themes reflect the tenor of the times, which can be summed up in the turmoil at Microsoft this week: Microsoft President Steve Sinofsky left the company. Steve Ballmer said the company needed someone to work across multiple product groups […]
Posted on November 16th, 2012 by admin
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Dropbox introduced a new feature today, called Chooser, which is aimed at developers and allows them to build in an “attach from from Dropbox feature” for their web-based products. The Dropbox Chooser makes it easy to share files from Dropbox with a team, for instance, but unlike with a traditional upload from your computer, everyone who accesses the […]
Posted on November 15th, 2012 by admin
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I spent a few hours on the LinkedIn campus a few weeks ago, with the sole mission of learning more about the new LinkedIn profile redesign. It was quite a shift from its previous iteration, and instead of just letting the regular news cycle and announcement go without further detail, I wanted to actually spend […]
Posted on November 15th, 2012 by admin
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Marketo is offering a new service called LaunchPoint, which is meant to serve the “marketing nation,” a term Marketo coined to describe an ecosystem of technology partners and professional service providers. The LaunchPoint service is essentially an app and services network for marketers. The storefront-style service integrates with the Marketo marketing-automation platform and is geared toward marketing […]
Posted on November 14th, 2012 by admin
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Application providers of all varieties are using activity streams. Microsoft announced this week that it is all in on social and will integrate Yammer into Sharepoint and Office365. SOA Software uses an activity stream for people to collaborate on API management. Salesforce.com has Chatter while Tibco has Tibbr. How the customer benefits makes the difference. I recently […]
Posted on November 14th, 2012 by admin
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Nokia today is taking some big steps to upgrade its Maps division, starting with a big rebrand as Here. To beef up the service, today Nokia also announced that it has acquired earthmine, a specialist in 3D street-level imaging, based out of Berkeley. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Nokia says that the […]
Posted on November 13th, 2012 by admin
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Now that Steven Sinofsky has left Microsoft as President of the Windows division, the question now comes down to what happened and the implications his departure means for the company. Microsoft issue a statement today that Sinofsky and CEO Steve Ballmer mutually agreed to the departure. My bet: Sinofsky does not fit with the company in the […]
Posted on November 13th, 2012 by admin
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Microsoft has issued a roadmap for Yammer that includes a drop in pricing and deeper integration with Sharepoint and Office365. The news comes as Microsoft holds its annual Sharepoint conference in Las Vegas this week. Jared Spataro, senior director of the Office Division at Microsoft, wrote a post on the topic explaining the role Yammer is […]
Posted on November 12th, 2012 by admin
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