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With New Business Suite & Samsung Partnership, Mobile Security Company Lookout Prepares To Take On The Enterprise

Lookout, a mobile security company which previously focused on consumer protections and anti-malware services, is today taking a step to expand its footprint further with the launch of a new, standalone product for business. Arriving later this year, Lookout for Business intends to allow larger organizations the ability to secure mobile devices attaching to the […]

MICROSOFT BUYS NOKIA for $7.2 billion — Wall St. frowns — ELOP TOPS CEO TALK at Redmond conclave — GITHUB mainstreaming — BEZOS speaks — KIM DOTCOM for NZ prez

September 3, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Loggly, A Splunk Competitor, Raises $10.5M For Cloud-Centric Approach To Log Management

Loggly, the cloud-based log management service, has raised $10.5 million from new investors Cisco and Data Collective. Trinity Ventures, True Ventures and Matrix Partners also participated in the round, bringing the total investment to $20.9 million for the San Francisco company. The SaaS provider takes log data from any device and reports it in management […]

Acronis Offers A Way To Back Up The VMware vCloud

Acronis has launched a new way to back up the VMware vCloud, filling a needed space for any IT manager realistically considering the virtualization company’s offerings. vCloud, VMware’s cloud technology, lacks an automated method for backing up vSphere, the virtualization software that manages a customer’s virtual machines. With Acronis, a customer may integrate backups so workloads […]

Andreessen Horowitz’s Scott Weiss On Why There Will Be 30 New Franchises In The Enterprise

The future of enterprise software is anything but boring. Andreessen Horowitz partner Scott Weiss aptly predicted his guest post titled “30 New Franchises” a few weeks ago, there a massive opportunity to create new multi-billion-dollar enterprise franchises despite incumbents throwing massive amounts of money to acquire these franchises. These companies, such as Box and many […]

Wrike Reveals New UI And Time-Broadcasting Feature To Keep Employees On Task

Wrike has updated its workplace productivity application Graphite, rolling out a new minimalist user interface and also the ability to broadcast the current work in real-time. The emphasis on a well-structured task view is designed to encourage workers to come back to the app and staying there longer. The Graphite update has applied a crisp […]

New TWEETS-per-second record — GOOGLE downtime — OUTLOOK down three days — HADOOP sits on Oracle, Teradata — Upheld: Changing IP address unlawful in Swartz case — ‘JOBS’ loses

August 19, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief newsletter subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Why Internet Companies Don’t Buy From The Enterprise Kings

Internet companies represent the world’s fastest-growing markets and they cover the global economy. Every market imaginable is affected by Internet companies. They are cloud-centric by nature and come in various forms. They are SaaS companies but also have emerged as departments in big companies that derive their primary value as Internet providers. And these companies are […]

10gen Is Now MongoDB To Reflect Focus On NoSQL Database

10gen is changing its name to MongoDB, the NoSQL technology that it developed and supports. The company said in an announcement of the news that the name unifies the open-source database project with the company behind it. The change is effective immediately. MongoDB is a widely recognized document-based database that launched in 2007 under the 10gen […]

BALLMER FALLOUT: Pushed? Nadella next? — CHINA’s largest DOS attack — NOSQL insecurity — New GOOGLE dev policy changes billing, Play security — MARISSA MAYER bio

August 26, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post