Depending on whom you ask, Silicon Valley and Israel have either had a long and prodigious symbiotic relationship when it comes to technology and technology companies, or Silicon Valley wouldn’t be able to find Israel on a map. Either way, one thing is for sure: Gil Ben-Artzy and Shuly Galili launched UpWest Labs because they […]
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Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Flickr who eventually left its acquirer Yahoo and started TinySpeck (and an ill-fated multiplayer game called Glitch), last year decided to take a different turn, porting his expertise in consumer services to tackle the enterprise market. The result was Slack, a collaboration platform that lets users port in conversations and […]
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Spreadsheets are universally loved. Why? Because they give everyone their own version of the truth, with complete autonomy to update and amend them as often as they like, without interference from anyone else. However, while spreadsheets might be great tool at an individual level they are completely un-scalable, and therefore totally unsuitable for compiling and […]
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Google and VMware today announced that they are working together to make it easier for Chromebook users in the enterprise to access Windows apps and the Windows desktop on their machines. Using VMware’s Horizon desktop as a service (DaaS), which uses VMware‘s HTML5 Blast protocol, it will now be easier for Chromebook users to connect to […]
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Much of the digital security industry is focused on preventing hacker attacks. Cybereason, a security-focused startup founded by a team of former Israeli intelligence agency members which is launching its enterprise offering commercially today, is taking a different tack. It argues that enterprises should accept security breaches are inevitable, and instead tool up on the […]
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The Google Search Appliance (GSA) is a rack-based server for enterprises that allows them to bring Google’s search technology in-house. Today, Google is launching a software update to GSA (version 7.2) that allows companies to more easily manage how unstructured content is indexed and gives users access to new search features, including wildcard queries. This new version also […]
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You know you’re doing something right when Silicon Valley rock stars are ditching cushy jobs at Google and Facebook to join your startup. This year’s Founder Of The Year Crunchie goes to the talent magnets at Dropbox, CEO Drew Houston and CTO Arash Ferdowsi. From an MIT dorm room to rejecting huge acquisition offers and […]
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Microsoft’s new service, Power BI, provides a way to analyze data and present the results in a visually appealing way, without the bother of consulting an enterprise business intelligence software package. “We’re making it easier for the user to interact with the data without having to go back to IT,” said Eron Kelly, Microsoft corporate […]
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