Today Dropbox launched two powerful new APIs for syncing and viewing data within apps that will help the company expand beyond the traditional “file” storage system it has built its service on. The Datastore API can save any structured data or metadata for an app. It lets developers protect their users’ data even when they […]
Posted on July 10th, 2013 by admin
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One of the questions that came up a couple of times during the press Q&A at Dropbox’s DBX developer conference: What does today’s news mean for the company’s business model? Given the impressive user numbers and platform expansion announced today (including a new API to sync data between apps), could Dropbox try to make money […]
Posted on July 9th, 2013 by admin
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Seculert has raised $10 million in a Series B round from Sequoia Capital for its advanced protection threat technology designed to thwart malware attacks. Existing investor Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) also participated in the round. The company was initially founded with seed-funding from YL Ventures and now has $15.4 million in total funding. Seculert creates […]
Posted on July 9th, 2013 by admin
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While Nokia continues to plug away at picking up more consumer users of its new Windows Phone-powered smartphones, it’s also looking for more licensees for its Here location data business. Today the company announced one such deal, in which Here’s real-time traffic information will get integrated into mapping software from Esri, whose geographic information system […]
Posted on July 8th, 2013 by admin
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An elegant iPad app is like a fine yacht. Built the right way, the app can have a sense of elegance that provides the customer with an optimal experience. The Google+ iPad app has that beauty and usability. Flipboard provides a similar experience. But even more so, an iPad app moves the work experience from the […]
Posted on July 7th, 2013 by admin
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DataTorrent has raised $8 million in a round led by August Capital for its Hadoop-based, real-time data streaming platform. The company had previously raised $750,000 in a seed round with participation from Morado Ventures, Ex-Yahoo Chief Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures and well-known angel investor Farzad Nazem. It is the first investment in the data […]
Posted on July 7th, 2013 by admin
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LinkedIn, the social network used by people for job hunting and making other business connections, is adding two more enhancements to its homepage that highlight one of its more unnerving, but occasionally useful, elements: how it tracks what people visit on the site and then reports on that activity. From today, it will start showing […]
Posted on July 6th, 2013 by admin
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Tomfoolery, the mobile app lab founded by ex-Yahoo and AOL execs that aims to make enterprise apps capturing some of the light and free nature of consumer services, is today debuting its first product: Anchor, a real-time conversation app. Tomfoolery has two aims for Anchor, which is coming out first as an iOS and web […]
Posted on July 6th, 2013 by admin
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Two veteran investors who have been integral in the development of a new generation of Israeli startups are on a mission to reverse a trend in a country that has traditionally favored later-stage and enterprise-skewed venture capital. Benchmark’s Michael Eisenberg and Genesis Partners’ Eden Shochat are teaming up to create Aleph — a new fund […]
Posted on July 5th, 2013 by admin
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The NSA spying scandal risks undermining trust in U.S. cloud computing businesses, the European Commission’s vice-president, Neelie Kroes, has warned in a speech today. Kroes also reiterated calls for “clarity and transparency” from the U.S. regarding the scope and nature of its surveillance and access to data on individuals and businesses living and conducting business in […]
Posted on July 5th, 2013 by admin
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