It took a while for me this week to judge the news value of the G2 Crowd analyst report about marketing automation. I thought about it, took another look and concluded that yes, marketing automation has to be one of the most boring topics to write about. It’s fascinating in its own way, right? No […]
Posted on July 21st, 2013 by admin
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Bit by bit, BitTorrent, the P2P platform that has worked hard to erase connotations of piracy, is building out a suite of services around its architecture that let users share, store and download large files, positioning itself as a competitor to the likes of Dropbox, Box, Google and more. The latest development is the company […]
Posted on July 20th, 2013 by admin
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mxHero, a company that graduated out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, has just closed a $1.25 million seed round of funding, with investors such as White Star Capital, as well as angel investors Esther Dyson and Ari Kushner. mxHero solves some serious problems in the gruesome and ungodly land of email. The platform allows developers, […]
Posted on July 20th, 2013 by admin
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The emergence of vertically integrated e-commerce operations like Everlane and Flint and Tinder highlights how a new generation of startups is using entrepreneurial muscle for economic regeneration in the U.S. And the growth of these companies is a sign of how consumers are supporting this idea, too. New startup Maker’s Row now wants to take […]
Posted on July 19th, 2013 by admin
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The consumerization of IT has wrought profound security issues and changes on how and where employees work. To unerstand the magnitude of this transformation, consider these statistics: 3 out of 5 workers say they no longer need to be in the office to be productive. The average mobile worker is now carrying 3.5 devices, up […]
Posted on July 19th, 2013 by admin
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After breaking up with Google and forging its own way forward with its mapping service on iOS, Apple is now taking another step on that path: today it emerged that the company has bought Locationary, a big data startup that has created a platform to merge and clean up disparate information about companies’ business profiles […]
Posted on July 19th, 2013 by admin
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A person using Google Drive in the enterprise faces a paradox: Google Drive wasn’t built from the ground up for the enterprise. It’s just not secure enough below the file level. That’s where Egnyte and its file-server technology enters the picture. Egnyte and Google are teaming up to make Google Drive more accessible as a platform that […]
Posted on July 19th, 2013 by admin
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GoInstant, the startup that Salesforce.com bought for $70 million, has launched a new developer platform for what it calls the “multiplayer web.” The company, which operates as a separate entity within Salesforce, uses the term to describe the new brand of the web that is more about shared experience. These are apps, such as Twitter and Facebook, […]
Posted on July 18th, 2013 by admin
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Puppet Labs is acquiring Cloudsmith, a provider of development tools for building out infrastructures that are automated in the manner that is becoming essential in this age of the cloud. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Luke Kanies, CEO and founder of Puppet Labs, said in an email that the Cloudsmith team has deep […]
Posted on July 18th, 2013 by admin
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In Silicon Valley, “Big Data” is all the rage these days. For good reason: It’s all around us, and the world we live in today keeps producing more and more of it. Thus, the promise, and the eventual impact, of these new “Big Data-whispering” technologies (that seem to pop up daily) is very real. No […]
Posted on July 17th, 2013 by admin
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