A new feature from Microsoft allows people to share and edit documents from SkyDrive in Office Web Apps without the recipient having to sign in to their Microsoft account. When a user shares an edit link from their account, all the recipients may edit it as well. A user can still require people to sign […]
Posted on February 10th, 2013 by admin
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Kera, a Toronto-based startup set to revolutionize the software product demo space with guided tutorials that are interactive and live on a site, instead of in a static video, has just launched new subtitle and captioning features, as well as basic analytics to help websites using its tech track user participation. This iteration on the […]
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Basecamp, the project management platform developed by 37 Signals that launched in 2004, is still alive and kicking, which is something of a feat considering how many companies have come and gone in this space over the years. Plus, more recently, a slew of promising new players have entered the market, including Dustin Moskovitz and […]
Posted on February 9th, 2013 by admin
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I am not one to write about award recipients but I find it pretty awesome that the founders of Mo De, a mobile micro finance company from Kenya, won the IBM SmartCamp entrepreneur of the year award this week in New York. Julian Kyula and Josphat K. Kinyua started Mo De to fill a need that […]
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Big Switch Networks, the software defined networking (SDN) company making a play on Cisco’s turf, has raised $6.5 million from Intel Capital. The investment brings the total amount raised to $45 million from investors including Goldman Sachs, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and others. Big Switch is one of the up and comers in […]
Posted on February 8th, 2013 by admin
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The business-focused networking site of record, LinkedIn, rode a wave of growth through 2012, turning itself into a Wall Street darling in the process. The race to win the professional networking market isn’t really “a race” anymore, as LinkedIn dominates online networking for the world’s working professionals, now over 200 million users-strong. Oh, and it’s […]
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With hacking and malware on the rise, Europe is cracking down on cybersecurity: today the European Commission, working with the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, is launching a new cybersecurity strategy along with a proposed directive on how to implement it (both embedded below). Among other things, the directive […]
Posted on February 7th, 2013 by admin
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A software company’s conference in Las Vegas for executives of hosting companies is not exactly where I’d expect to see a bunch of startups showing off what they do. But when the software company’s executive chairman of the board is also an investor in the startups, then the reason for their attendance becomes pretty clear. […]
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Google continues to enhance its business in e-commerce and providing a portal for users to search and find things to buy alongside ads for those products. Today it was announced that Google has bought Channel Intelligence, a provider of technology to companies to enable customers to buy their products online, for $125 million in an […]
Posted on February 6th, 2013 by admin
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Think Big Analytics has raised $3 million from angel investors for what it calls its “big data as a service,” which combines data science and data engineering for customers invested in building out infrastructures to get more from their data and build predictive models to make decisions. Daniel Scheinman led the investment with participation from WI Harper […]
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