Friday January 10, 2025

Microsoft Acquires Parature For $100M In Deal To Bolster Knowledge Base For Dynamics CRM Platform

Microsoft has acquired Parature, a customer service SaaS provider, for $100 million, according to sources close to the deal. The Parature acquisition gives Microsoft Dynamics, its CRM platform, a world-class self-service knowledge base to connect with customers, such as gamers, across multiple channels, including email, the web, chat or social media. Parature’s roots date back to 2000 […]

NSA won’t deny SPYING on Congress — ANDROID eats world: Laptops, desktops, and cars — EVERNOTE gets slammed — ZYNGA takes Bitcoin — SIRI hates ‘Her’

January 6, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

NSA goes QUANTUM to crack eveything — CES will be a wearables fest — FACEBOOK hit with email-mining suit — SNAPCHAT finally wakes up

January 3, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Watch Out Google, AddSearch — Like Swiftype — Wants To Stop In-Website Search From Sucking

The in-website search space is hotting up. Because well, let’s face it, most site search still sucks. The reason for that is that firstly search is a hard, expensive problem to crack. And secondly Google, the dominant search player offering an in-website search product, hasn’t got a huge incentive to help other websites have awesome searches all […]

Snapchat and Skype get HACKED — NYT defends SNOWDEN — NEST raises $150M at $2B value — SWISHER & MOSSBERG’s Re/code debuts

January 2, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Meatspace, A World Of Animated Gifs, Human Robots And The Ephemerality Of Snapchat-Like Apps

Meatspace, an addictive new web service and mobile app is part Snapchat, part Twitter and part animated gifs. It works like this: You write an update in 250 characters or less and then pose for the camera on your computer or phone. The service then records and makes a two-second animated loop. Meatspace shifts the conversation into a […]