The shift to scale out architectures and an app-centric culture has turned out well for Docker and its lightweight open-source “container” technology designed for developers to quickly move code to the cloud. That’s evident in today’s news that the company has raised $15 million in a Series B round led by Greylock Partners, with minority […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2014 by admin
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Another day, another free service goes to the dogs — or logs as the case may be. LogMeIn, a provider of remote connectivity services, ten years ago made a name for itself by offering easy-to-use, free services to access other computers and files remotely — with the idea being the company could upsell them to […]
Posted on January 21st, 2014 by admin
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Fon, a free “crowdsourced” WiFi network that is created out of people sharing a portion of their private WiFi connections, is today announcing another $14 million in funding led by Qualcomm Ventures as it gears up to tackle new areas like the U.S. and business users. It will also be teaming up with Facebook around […]
Posted on January 20th, 2014 by admin
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Index Ventures has led a $870,000 seed round into Resource Guru, a London-based startup that wants to disrupt companies’ use of spreadsheets to manage staff, equipment and other resources — and replace them with its cloud-based team scheduling software. “Most managers still rely on complicated spreadsheets or cumbersome software to manage their teams and resources, neither of which […]
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Dropbox is raising between $250 million and $400 million at a $10 billion valuation according to the Wall Street Journal and Re / code. Why? Because Dropbox has spent the last year rebuilding its product to make it work for businesses, and now it’s time to sell that product. How? Because a source says Dropbox […]
Posted on January 19th, 2014 by admin
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A bumper sticker philosopher once said, “The best things in life aren’t things.” We can’t be sure the deep thinker had cloud computing in mind, but the same thought occurred to us as we drew up
Posted on January 19th, 2014 by admin
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Zapier, a platform for connecting apps to automate tasks, has been constrained to some extent by the limitations for integrating third-party services. That has changed with Zapier’s update to its developer platform that the company announced this week. The change is noteworthy for, if nothing else, how it opens systems so apps can talk to […]
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Posted on January 18th, 2014 by admin
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Nothing is truly NSA-proof or hacker-proof, but WireOver wants to offer you more security than Dropbox, Google Drive, or Skydrive. The Y Combinator startup just emerged from stealth with a desktop app that lets you send files of any size for free. And for $10 a month, your transfers get end-to-end encryption so only the […]
Posted on January 17th, 2014 by admin
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Estonian startup Cloutex has closed a $600,000 seed round from United Partners, SmartCap and EstBan business angels. Former Skype Estonia General Manager and angel investor, Tiit Paananen, is also part of the round. The startup had previously raised a small pre-seed from business angels Riivo Anton and Gerri Kodres and Startup Wise Guys, bringing its total funding to-date […]
Posted on January 17th, 2014 by admin
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