A new application called Skimbox is attempting to take on the heady challenge of fighting email overload in a way that makes sense for both consumers and the enterprise. The app, launching first on iOS, uses the concepts popularized by Mailbox – with its various swipes and gestures – as a way to move through […]
Posted on October 15th, 2013 by admin
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When free app Foursquare announced an injection of $41 million from investors earlier this year, CEO and founder Dennis Crowley described how the new funds would help the mobile search and location-sharing platform move away from its perception as a simple “check-in app” and “get closer to being able to prove that there’s a real […]
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Nearly a year after Peter Thiel, Matrix Partners and others put an extra $49 million into Xero, the online accounting software company is adding yet more capital to its coffers. Today the New Zealand-based startup announced that it has raised $150 million (NZ$180m), led again by Peter Thiel-backed Valar Ventures and Matrix Partners. Xero says […]
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The consumerization of enterprise services is one of the more persistent trends in the world of IT today, and today it’s gaining yet more ground by way of an acquisition: Familiar, a private photo and video sharing service, has been bought by Evidence.com, a division of Taser. With Taser probably best known for its eponymous […]
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An appliance designed for Web 2.0 companies may take them back to the future with tape storage. Tweet This Post
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They’re a talented team of two from Finland that got Y Combinator’s stamp of approval and built a promising product for storing and sharing content from across the web. But consumer-facing browser extensions can prove difficult for growing a large user base, so this startup, Kippt, did a little pivot. After launching more than a […]
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Mobile security company Lookout is all about protecting user’s mobile devices against malicious threats, a business that today has 45 million customers. Today it’s raising its own profile a little bit more. The startup is announcing another $55 million in funding, led by strategic investor Deutsche Telekom, parent of T-Mobile. This will be used to help […]
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GitHub for Windows has received some updates to make the user experience for the popular version of the code collaboration platform “lighter and brighter.” The changes to the layout are part of a number of other minor changes that GitHub has made. As a starter, the company is adopting some basic themes that developers are accustomed […]
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