AppDynamics has raised $50 million in a round lead by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) for the expansion of its application performance monitoring service. The Series D round also included AppDynamics’ current investors: Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company has now raised a total of $86.5 million and plans to […]
Posted on January 23rd, 2013 by admin
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Windows Azure Media is now open to general availability and promises scaling capabilities for streaming on-demand video to consumers on any device. The service is targeting enterprise and consumer services. In his blog post, Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie said that a customer can build a media service for delivering training videos to employees or stream video content to a […]
Posted on January 23rd, 2013 by admin
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Microsoft is talking with Dell about financing its buyout. The deal is reported to be worth about $2 billion. For the past few weeks there have been reports that Dell has been in talks with Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm, to buy out the public shareholders. It has been reported that the buyout […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2013 by admin
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Investors can’t seem to get enough of the BYOD trend of late. Today sees another ‘bring your own device’ startup receive funding — Tel Aviv-based Cellrox, which claims to be a leader in BYOD ‘multi-persona’ solutions for mobile devices, has raised a $4.7 million series A round led by Runa Capital, with participation from existing […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2013 by admin
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Acceleprise, an accelerator for enterprise startups, has announced eight new companies for its latest class. The companies were chosen from an applicant pool twice the size of the previous class. Acceleprise is also adding a class and increasing the number of companies it accepts. It will now do three classes a year with eight companies […]
Posted on January 21st, 2013 by admin
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Payleven, the Rocket Internet-incubated mobile-payment service that uses a dongle attached to a mobile device to make and process card transactions — yes, like Square — is today announcing that it has picked up another round of funding, as well as a new investor. As has been the case with many past investments in Samwer-incubated […]
Posted on January 21st, 2013 by admin
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“We could go public,” SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg says, “but the cost of going public — of running a public company — outweighs the benefits.” As the founder of LAUNCH Media, which he took public before selling to Yahoo! (where he stayed for six years), Goldberg is familiar with the IPO process and isn’t in […]
Posted on January 20th, 2013 by admin
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Editor’s note: Aaron Levie is CEO and co-founder of Box. Follow him on Twitter @levie. When we decided to focus on selling to enterprises five years ago at Box, we saw some exciting emerging trends: workers needed tools that were far simpler to use; cloud-delivered technology meant that IT departments could spend less time maintaining infrastructure and play a […]
Posted on January 20th, 2013 by admin
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“Open” this, “open” that: It seems like everything is “open” these days. Well hello, people, Bill Gates’ gravy boat has run aground. It’s time to get out the Starship and fly in those open clouds. Hokey? You bet your SaaS this is hokey. But come on, take a look at what happened last week at […]
Posted on January 19th, 2013 by admin
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Yammer competitor Jostle.me has raised $3.1 million from a group of angel investors. The company has raised $4.6 million to date, all from private individuals. It has 52 shareholders, including most employees who work for the company and its directors. Jostle sells a cloud-based enterprise platform that uses photos of the people in the organization as […]
Posted on January 19th, 2013 by admin
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