LovelyHeroku is a new breed of app that enables IT staff and developers to use their smartphones to manage their work on the Heroku platform-as-a-service (PaaS). It’s the kind of service that reflects how different work is these days now that we can carry it wherever we go. The service is the creation of Matija […]
Posted on October 22nd, 2013 by admin
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Sqrrl, a big data startup with links to the NSA, announced $5.2 million in Series A funding from existing investors Atlas Venture and Matrix Partners, which will be used to further fund the development and commercialization of its scalable, NoSQL database “Sqrrl Enterprise.” An updated version of this product (version 1.2) is also shipping today with […]
Posted on October 21st, 2013 by admin
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IBM reported its third quarter financials this past week that showed a company struggling with its legacy hardware business and the problems that come with a confused cloud services strategy. Revenues were down $1 billion with hardware sales declining 17 percent. Overall revenues for the nine-month period totaled $72.1 billion, a decrease of 4 percent, compared with […]
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October 1, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post
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On the heels of Oracle‘s $871 million acquisition of Eloqua in December 2012, today the CRM giant is sailing into another acquisition in the cloud-based marketing space. It has bought Compendium, a six-year-old startup that, out of Indianapolis and largely bootstrapped, has managed to build up a business with a number of large clients including CVENT, […]
Posted on October 20th, 2013 by admin
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Mode, a company that is building an online repository for data science work, announced today that it has secured a $550,000 seed round of funding led by Yammer founder David Sacks. Mode CEO Derek Steer previously worked at Yammer, including after its acquisition by Microsoft. Mode calls itself the “GitHub for Data Analysis.” While I […]
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In a sign of the growing enterprise interest in new technologies for big data applications, NoSQL database vendor MongoDB has raised $150 million in a fresh round of funding from several major firms including Salesforce.com, Intel Capital and Sequoia Capital. With the new funds, MongoDB has so far raised $231 million from investors since launching […]
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While Evernote now has north of 75 million users and a valuation that’s reportedly more than $1 billion, the company faced many close calls. In fact, it had just three weeks of cash left during the 2008 financial crisis when an investor bailed at the last minute, said CEO Phil Libin today at Y Combinator’s Startup […]
Posted on October 19th, 2013 by admin
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Another development in the case between rivals Rocket Lawyer, the online legal services startup, and LegalZoom, which is suing Rocket Lawyer over claims of false advertising and other Federal Trade Commission violations. The court has denied LegalZoom’s motion for a summary judgment in the case and ordered it to trial. Judge Gary Allen Feess, of […]
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October 18, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post
Posted on October 19th, 2013 by admin
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