AppDirect has raised $9 million and is announcing the purchase of Standing Cloud, a Foundry Group investment. iNovIa Capital led the Series B investment, which brings the app marketplace’s total investment to $20.8 million. The Standing Cloud technology packages apps for use with cloud services to ease the complexity of deploying and managing apps. AppDirect […]
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Datapipe, a managed services provider, has acquired Newvem, a company that provides heat maps and other forms of analytics for AWS customers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Newvem provides services that simplifies the use of AWS and other cloud services by providing customers with a platform for managing their workloads on the cloud […]
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SAP has unveiled a new version of its Business Objects BI (business intelligence) software suite that features support for more than 140 data sources and the promise of more stable deployments. Business Objects 4.1, which was announced Monday, follows the 2011 release of version 4.0. That product slipped well past its original release date, but […]
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Joyent co-founder Jason Hoffman is leaving his position as CTO of the pioneering cloud computing company. Hoffman said in a blog post that he will remain connected to Joyent as an advisor. We’ve reached out to Hoffman about his next steps, as well as Joyent to ask who their next CTO will be. In his […]
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Leaks by former security contractor Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency has cracked into Internet communications previously believed to be protected by the use of encryption. The New York Times, Pro Publica and The Guardian, working in partnership on the story, reported that documents obtained from Snowden show that the NSA and Britain’s Government […]
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CrowdStrike has raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Accel Venture Partners for its security technology to identify advanced threats and put adversaries more on the defensive. Founding investor Warbug Pincus also participated in the funding. The company was founded by former McAffee CTO George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch, who was previously […]
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NASA’s newest robotic explorer rocketed into space in an unprecedented moonshot from Virginia that dazzled sky watchers along the East Coast of the U.S. LADEE, which is the size of a small car, is expected to reach the moon on Oct. 6. Scientists want to learn the composition of the moon’s ever-so-delicate atmosphere and how […]
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Lithium has raised $50 million from a group of unnamed investors in what the company is calling pre-IPO mezzanine financing. Lithium will use the funding to further develop its technology platform and expand its sales and marketing. The company has raised a total of $142 million in funding. Lithium executives could not be reached for comment to […]
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Over the last few years, Startup Land has played home to the dramatic re-emergence of a tried-and-true, familiar model: Subscription commerce. The rise of smartphones, tablets, “The Cloud,” Big Data and the steady maturation of digital marketplaces and distribution channels has fundamentally changed the way we shop, socialize and do business. As a result, businesses […]
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