November 21, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post
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Quip, a new word processing app with an impressive pedigree (co-created by ex-Facebook CTO Bret Taylor and the father of Google Apps Engine, Kevin Gibbs), has seen hundreds of thousands of documents created, and millions of messages generated, since its launch in July of this year. Today, Quip is getting updated with new features to […]
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SurveyMonkey has been around for more than a decade, and according to CEO Dave Goldberg, it’s used by a number of enterprise-sized businesses. Yet the company hasn’t offered an enterprise plan or enterprise-focused features – even if you were signing up to use SurveyMonkey at a giant corporation, you were still signing up for an […]
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“Puppies are free, but you still have to feed them.” Virendra Vase jokingly likened this truism to Klout’s experience with big data. Vase is CTO at Klout, which uses analytics to measure people’s influence across social networks. “We basically sit above the social networks, gathering all the signals, helping folks to understand and be recognized […]
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It was a love fest here at Dreamforce today with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Dropbox Founder Drew Houston sharing the stage and asking each other questions in a fireside chat. Well, maybe, it was more about Benioff loving Houston. But beyond the platitudes, Houston did have some things worth sharing about his company that […]
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Protesters, targeting Walmart Board Member Marissa Mayer, disrupted a fireside chat today between her and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff at the SaaS provider’s annual conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The protesters, with a group called Our Walmart, stormed the fireside chat to protest working conditions at Walmart and the plight of about 80 workers who were fired by the […]
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November 19, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post
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Google is currently adding some 5,000 businesses daily as users of its Google Apps platform. But it wants to have more, and to help do that, today it is launching an updated Apps Marketplace – the first really big update to the service that offers enhanced services on top of Google Apps since it was first […]
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CenturyLink has acquired Tier 3, the Seattle-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform and advanced cloud management company. The amount of the acquisition was not disclosed. Tier 3 has $16.5 million in investment from Intel Capital, Ignition Partners and Madrone Venture Group. It was the second cloud services acquisition for CenturyLink in the past year. In June, […]
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