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Punchh, The Platform That Connects A Restaurant’s Cash Register To A Customer’s Smart Phone

Punchh is a CRM platform for the brick-and-mortar business world. It provides apps for restaurants that engage people in games and rewards systems that are all hooked into point of sale (POS) systems. Today, the company has launched a new customer segmentation tool that allows a restaurant to explore customer sales information down to a […]

PC shipments CRATER again — APPLE phablet coming? — CHROMEBOOK pushes price envelope — FOXACID secret server program — WHITMAN lashes at WINTEL — Selfie surgery

October 10, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

The CEOs Are Wrong: Smart Machines Will Replace Millions Of Jobs

Smart machines are coming to the business world, but don’t tell that to the CEOs. Sixty-percent of CEOs surveyed by Gartner Research say the emergence of smart machines capable of absorbing millions of middle-class jobs within 15 years is a “futurist fantasy.” The survey results reflect the anxiety about automation of the work world and the […]

Punchh, The Virtual Stamp Card That Connects A Restaurant’s Cash Register To A Customer’s Smart Phone

Punchh is a CRM platform for the brick-and-mortar business world that takes the old punch card that you get at a coffee shop or restaurant and makes it an app that a restaurant can hook into its point of sale (POS) system. Today, the company has launched a new customer segmentation tool that allows a restaurant to explore customer […]

New iPAD & OSX Mavericks debut Oct. 22 — BALLMER loading Office on iPad (eventually) — Raspberry Pi rising — DORSEY work for FACEBOOK?

October 9, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Google App Engine Adds New Starter Package To Speed iOS Development

Google App Engine has added a new starter package to speed iOS development. The new service,  Mobile Backend Starter for iOS, is designed to speed the development of connected mobile apps without writing server-side code. The new service allows users to store data in the cloud and share it between users. The libraries also offer a developer the ability […]

CoreOS Receives Investment From Andreessen Horowitz And Sequoia For New Cloud OS Built With Google In Mind

CoreOS, a Y Combinator alum, has received investment from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital for its new Linux-based operating system designed to run like Google would run its own cloud infrastructure. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but CEO and Co-Founder Alex Polvi said the amount is in the $1 million to $5 million […]

BYOD Service Enterproid Raises $12M From Google Ventures And Changes Name To “Divide”

Enterproid, which has changed its name to Divide, announced $12 million in funding today from Google Ventures in a Series B round for its service that encrypts a device and separates a person’s personal and work data. Existing investors Comcast Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures also participated and were joined by new investors Globespan Capital Partners and Harmony […]

FED pours $$ into MS CLOUD — NSA data center melts down — FOX NEWS goes big big screen — ERIC SCHMIDT, jokester — XP stays alive

October 8, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Amazon Web Services Wins Again In Battle To Build The CIA Cloud

Amazon Web Services has won a major battle against IBM in the pursuit to build a cloud infrastructure for the intelligence community. In a ruling published today, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler wrote that AWS legitimately won a $600 million contract with the CIA that IBM had contested. IBM plans to appeal […]