In 2012, the buzz around education technology reached new heights and, with the new year now underway, the hype surrounding the potential transformative impact of technology on both higher and K-12 education continues, thanks to initiatives like the one Udacity is piloting with largest university system in the world, which aims to bring affordable, lower-division […]
Posted on February 5th, 2013 by admin
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The fertile enterprise startup field has created a space for customers seeking peer analysis of vendor offerings. VendorStack hopes to fill that space with a new service that Co-Founder David Cheng calls a Yelp plus Quora. Like Yelp, VendorStack lets users rate and review vendors. And similar to Quora, the VendorStack community can ask and answer […]
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Telefonica Digital, the tech arm of carrier giant Telefonica, has been making a lot of consumer-focused acquisitions and investments in the last year — and now it’s showing that it has an equal interest in enterprise verticals, specifically in e-health: today it announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in Axismed, a chronic care management […]
Posted on February 4th, 2013 by admin
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It’s the Crunchies after party and GitHub Co-Founder and CEO Tom Preston-Werner is sitting by the front door at Absinthe in San Francisco with the Crunchies statue he had just accepted for best overall startup. The first thing he says? GitHub won the Crunchies Bootstrap Award in 2009. But this year, it’s not about being a […]
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No more RIM-shots allowed if you are among those who like to joke about the trials and tribulations of the Canadian handset manufacturer. Today the company said that it was dropping its Research In Motion moniker and would from today be known as BlackBerry only, finally aligning its branding and company name. The news was […]
Posted on February 3rd, 2013 by admin
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PagerDuty has raised $10.7 million from Andreessen Horowitz to build out an IT alert service that is modeled on what Amazon Web Services developed to manage its massive infrastructure. The funding will go toward building additional services to give IT managers a way to quantify how staff is responding to alerts and develop new mobile apps for notifications. A […]
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42Floors, the Y-Combinator-incubated startup that has built a search engine for the office rentals market, has raised another $12.3 million — funding that founder Jason Freedman says the company will use to take its service to markets outside of San Francisco and New York, including its first international move to London by the end of […]
Posted on February 2nd, 2013 by admin
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Some consolidation in the world of mobile payments and mobile banking: mFoundry is getting acquired by FIS for $120 million. FIS — a banking and payment provider that works with some 14,000 banks worldwide — already had a 22% stake in the company; today’s deal will see it paying for the remaining 78% in cash, for […]
Posted on February 2nd, 2013 by admin
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InfoArmy — a startup built on the “Data 2.0″ concept of crowdsourced competitive intelligence — has today sent out a letter, printed in full below, to its researchers informing them that it is pulling the plug on its current business model after failing to find enough sales for the research reports, and being unable to […]
Posted on February 1st, 2013 by admin
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Amazon earlier today experienced an outage of its main Amazon.com homepage that lasted for nearly one hour, the company confirmed today. It is still not explaining what the problem was but TechCrunch understands that it is looking unlikely that any outside group was involved — as would be the case in a hack or DDoS […]
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