Google is readying to move the Google App Engine Search API from experimental to preview status with plans to charge for operations and storage. The news comes from an email sent by a Google product manager to developers experimenting with the Search API. He asked just one thing in the email: to keep the news confidential until […]
Posted on June 5th, 2013 by admin
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In September 2010, Atlassian acquired Bitbucket, the service for code collaboration, similar to GitHub. At the time, the service had 45,000 users. Today it has 1 million users, a validation that the market for developer tools in the enterprise is growing fast. We know that GitHub has had tremendous growth. In January, the service passed […]
Posted on June 4th, 2013 by admin
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Card.biz originally launched in Summer 2012 as a me-too offering along the lines of About.me. But as startups are wont to do, the Paris-based company, backed by Kima Ventures, has since pivoted to offer a service that enables companies to create an org chart and staff directory hosted in the cloud. It taps into the recent […]
Posted on June 4th, 2013 by admin
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Windows 8.1, which will launch in preview on June 26th, isn’t just about bringing the Start button back. For Microsoft, it’s also an opportunity to get businesses of all sizes to take another look at an operating system they have mostly ignored. Today, at its TechEd conference in New Orleans, the company provided new details […]
Posted on June 3rd, 2013 by admin
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When digital marketers do competitive analysis today, they’re still cobbling together data from a variety of sources then tucking it into a PowerPoint presentation where, by the time it’s actually read, is already out of date. TrackMaven, a new, largely real-time competitive intelligence platform for marketers, is changing that, now with $1.25 million in funding […]
Posted on June 3rd, 2013 by admin
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The rush of new mobile messaging apps, building on the popularity of services like WhatsApp and Line, continues apace, with the latest twist a service for business users. CoTap, an app co-founded by Yammer ex-chief product officer Jim Patterson and ex-senior director of engineering Zack Parker, has picked up a $5.5 million Series A round […]
Posted on June 2nd, 2013 by admin
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Numecent has raised $13.6 million from T-Ventures, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom for its technology to “cloudify” on-premise or desktop apps. The Series B round brings the total raises to $15 million. Irvine-based Numecent has carved a space for itself in the market for bringing Windows apps to the cloud. The service uses […]
Posted on June 2nd, 2013 by admin
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Salesforce.com is not solely a CRM company anymore. It’s a CRM company that has its sights on owning the enterprise SaaS stack, well beyond its core sales roots. The latest example comes with Salesforce Company Community (SCC), its social and mobile replacement for the corporate Intranet. The intranet was so damn cool on my IE […]
Posted on June 1st, 2013 by admin
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ParStream and Panopticon are partnering to offer data analytics and data visualization by integrating their respective platforms. ParStream offers an in-memory analytics technology that offers sub-second response. Panopticon is known for its visual analytics and in-memory engine that can push out graphics in an event stream. ParStream has $5.6 million in Series A funding from […]
Posted on June 1st, 2013 by admin
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