For many startups, creating the educational platform (and learning experience) of the future began with reinventing the presentation, distribution — really, the essence — of educational content. And what is the most familiar package for that content? The good ole textbook, in all its rigid and bulky glory. As such, startups like Kno, Inkling and […]
Posted on January 9th, 2013 by admin
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Bitly has launched a set of social APIs that includes real-time search, attention spikes and metadata about URLs. Real-time search allows a user to run a query and get back the top URLs and stories. Queries can be specific phrases such as Portlandia or filtering by criteria, for example, with stories about food that people […]
Posted on January 8th, 2013 by admin
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ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency, today named drive-by exploits as the biggest, most increasing threat of the moment in the Internet landscape, amongst a sea of other all-too-familiar issues like worms, phishing and botnets. Spam, one of the oldest and most annoying aspects of being online, is the only threat that is […]
Posted on January 8th, 2013 by admin
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Infusionsoft has raised $54 million from Goldman Sachs for its small business sales and marketing automation platform. The investment pushes Infusionsoft’s total venture funding to $71 million. The company raised $9 million in 2007 from Mohr Davidow Ventures and another $8 million from vSpring Capital in 2008, with Mohr Davidow participating. Infusionsoft will use the […]
Posted on January 7th, 2013 by admin
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No more copy and paste — GitHub has launched a new feature today called ZeroClipboard, a library for copying text to the clipboard that uses an invisible Adobe Flash movie through a JavaScript interface. The capability to copy long lines of text and Secure Hash Algorithms (SHAs) to a clipboard has been a feature on […]
Posted on January 6th, 2013 by admin
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Editor’s note: Rodney Rogers is chairman and CEO of Virtustream. He is also on the boards of UnitedLex, Teliris, and Greensmith Energy Mgmt., and is an angel investor in Cloud Sherpas, BetterCloud, iYogi and others. Follow him on Twitter @rjrogers87. I’m a large enterprise and my ears are ringing. I hear that you, AWS, know […]
Posted on January 5th, 2013 by admin
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Austin-based Vobi.com, a cloud-based collaboration startup which will sell its services through mobile operators, has raised $1.5 million in Series A funding from Dallas VC firm Trailblazer Capital. The firm specializes in communications companies that have unique IP, explains Vobi CEO Mark Castleman, making it a good fit as Vobi’s lead investor. Castleman himself has […]
Posted on January 5th, 2013 by admin
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Forrester Research is reporting that Apple will sell $39 billion in Macs and iPads through 2014. According to the firm’s latest report, Apple will sell $7 billion worth of Macs and $11 billion in iPads to the corporate market this year. In 2014, Apple will sell $8 billion in Macs and $13 billion in iPads. […]
Posted on January 4th, 2013 by admin
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Forrester Research is citing SaaS and data-driven smart apps as the major growth engines for the worldwide software market. The SaaS software market will increase 25 percent in 2013 to $59 billion, a 25 percent increase. In 2014, the market is expected to total $75 billion. Forrester uses the term “smart computing” to define apps […]
Posted on January 4th, 2013 by admin
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Analyst Gartner has increased its forecast for worldwide IT spending in 2013, revising its Q3 2012 figure up from 3.8 per cent growth to 4.2 per cent higher than last year’s figure. The analyst is now forecasting that worldwide IT spending will hit $3.7 trillion in 2013. Much of this spending increase is down to projected […]
Posted on January 3rd, 2013 by admin
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