Marco Boerries is CEO and founder of NumberFour – a startup that’s been operating in stealth for four years. Despite being under the radar, it landed a $38 million Series A, led by Index Ventures, back in June, one of the biggest Series A rounds in Europe in recent years. So how was a startup that’s not doing a lot of […]
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On Friday, Salesforce.com said it would shut down do.com, its once-heralded task-management service. The closing is an odd one. The service has a loyal following and is lauded for its good design and usability. But even odder may be what the closure means for desk.com, the Salesforce customer service platform, and the timing with Dreamforce, its annual event starting […]
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Microsoft has acquired Apiphany, an API management company that it will integrate with Windows Azure. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. A short post about the acquisition is on the Windows Azure blog, citing the increasing value of APIs and the new level of management required to expose APIS reliably, securely and at scale. In the post, Microsoft […]
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Software provider New Relic is extending its system administrator tools for monitoring the performance of applications to help business managers as well. “The data coming out of your software is transformative to your business. The answers are there, you just to need to query the data correctly and do it fast,” said New Relic CEO […]
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Intuit has acquired Level Up Analytics, a Mountain View-based consulting company that focuses on data science, big data and analytics. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. All the employees from the Level Up Analytics team will join Intuit. In a statement, Intuit described the deal as an “acqui-hire,” its fifth this year. The company did not provide the […]
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Part of the reason that higher education exists, besides accumulating habits, diets and debts that will haunt you for years to come, is to prepare you for the “real world” – and for the workforce. Of course, with graduation rates around 60 percent and rampant undermployment among recent grads casting a long shadow over college […]
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Editor’s note: Deepak Jeevan Kumar is a Principal at General Catalyst Partners, a Venture Capital firm with offices in Palo Alto, Boston and New York. He focuses on funding and launching big data, cloud computing and cybersecurity startups. Follow him on Twitter @DJKHacker. Getting to a successful initial public offering is not an easy road for enterprise […]
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Perfect presented a video life blogging service for Google Glass today at TechStars Seattle Demo Day, making it the first company launching a service for the wearable computing platform to be part of the well-known startup program. The service is a refreshing take on Google Glass that gives people an arguably far easier way to make […]
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