Today’s news that eBay’s PayPal is buying Braintree for $800 million in cash will open the door to Braintree taking its developer-focused payments platform to more markets and with more services. PayPal, meanwhile, will use Braintree to build out its ambition to be, in the words of PayPal President David Marcus (pictured, right), “the payment […]
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It’s been a busy last 24 hours for Rock Health — and last three years for that matter. Today, the San Francisco-based accelerator for digital health startups held its fifth Demo Day at UCSF’s Genentech Hall. Pitching their ideas to a crowded room full of investors and entrepreneurs, the ten companies in Rock Health’s latest […]
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Microsoft has added features to Power BI for Office 365, a data analysis tool to complement Excel that the company hasn’t yet released in final form. The preview of Power BI for Office 365 now offers users the ability to mine data using natural language, question-and-answer-type queries. Tweet This Post
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Zoho has launched a service that centralizes contacts for customers, helps them share them across different groups and manage related tasks. As part of the effort to reach small business owners, the CRM company and business services provider is also letting customers set their own price after a 30-day free trial. The service is designed […]
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Egnyte has a new look and with it a new platform that allows customers to share the most sensitive documents that historically file-sharing and storage services have not had the security in place to manage. The new Storage Connect virtual appliance maps internal files to a cloud access layer across one or multiple sites. The data plane is behind the […]
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Earlier today Intuit announced a completely new version of its QuickBooks accounting software, and to kick it off, it’s also announcing a new, and rather groundbreaking, partnership. It is integrating with mobile payments juggernaut Square, so that small businesses that use the mobile payment service can automatically feed data from those transactions into their books. […]
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Zoom, the Santa Clara-based cloud video conferencing startup that last raised $6 million in January, has raised another $6.5 million in a Series B round of funding that has just closed. The new round is led by Facebook, Waze and Siri investor Horizons Ventures Hong Kong, and included existing investors Patrick Soon-Shiong and former Yahoo! […]
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Last night, Larry Ellison kicked off Oracle Openworld 2013 with a keynote speech that highlighted one of Oracle’s highly touted new technologies:
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C9 has a new CEO and $12 million in funding for its platform that helps customers forecast sales revenues. The Series D round was led by existing investors Mayfield Fund, InterWest Partners and Leapfrog Ventures. The company has raised a total of $40 million. New CEO Michael Howard previously worked as chief marketing officer at […]
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