Among the more recent changes afoot at Twitter, the company recently announced that it would no longer allow third parties to use Twitter’s API for bulk-following or unfollowing Twitter accounts — spammy behavior, by many estimates. Now, a developer who has built a product based on this feature is crying foul, saying that his application, called […]
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Bislr has launched an app for its platform called Autopilot, that simplifies the process of creating and maintaining complex channel marketing efforts. SaaS providers and the growing list of companies that use subscription services increasingly use multiple channels such as email, the web and social media for their marketing campaigns. This is fundamental to engage and use […]
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At TechCrunch, we have a host of passwords for Twitter, Dropbox and so on that get shared amongst the staff. But inevitably, there’s always a scramble when a new employee signs up and doesn’t have access to the account. Or when someone just plain forgets their passwords. Enter Mitro, which is a company from several […]
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Long-time partners SAP and Accenture are deepening their relationship with a new offering that calls for Accenture to serve as a single point of contact on projects involving SAP’s HANA in-memory database platform and Accenture’s own intellectual property. Accenture will handle all contracts for software and services, which is a “a true differentiator that allows […]
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Salesforce.com has renamed Chatterbox, the file-sharing service it launched as a competitor to Box and other services. The new service is called Salesforce Files and this time the company is positioning it as a way to connect files from internal and external sources, such as Google Drive, SharePoint and Documentum. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff unveiled […]
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Omnistream, a Web-based customer relationship management software developed to help luxury brands boost retail sales in China, is exiting private beta today after finishing the Alchemist Accelerator program for enterprise startups. Headquartered in Hong Kong, Omnistream’s software helps sales associates in upscale stores market to Chinese customers, who demand more personalized service. According to McKinsey, […]
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Amazon Web Services has added support for Redis, an in-memory, key-value store, popular with developers for its superior caching and ability to support multiple data types. The news is significant for AWS users but dampened by Azure’s announcement yesterday about a new data store offering of its own. Redis will integrate with Amazon ElastiCache and accompany Memcached, another in-memory caching engine. […]
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Crowdsourced bug bounty marketplace Bugcrowd has raised $1.6 million from investors to grow its community of 3,000 vetted security penetration testers who can find vulnerabilities and weaknesses in a new feature or application. The Australian startup is hoping to democratise the models commercialised by Facebook and Google, who have paid out millions of dollars to […]
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