Spare a thought for accountants. Slovak startup Datamolino has, by building a platform for SMEs to cut through the tedium of manual data entry of invoices and receipts, and it’s proving to be a lucrative idea — as the b2b startup has just bagged €500,000 ($680K) in seed funding, and is already in discussions for raising […]
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At a small media event in Mountain View today, Google announced the launch of Chromebox for Meetings, a $999 Core i7-based ASUS Chromebox setup with a remote, camera and microphone for conference rooms. The system uses Hangouts in the backend and is also compatible with existing conferencing setups from Vidyo and UberConference (for phone calls). The […]
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The rise in malware and online security threats continues to give a big boost to companies that are looking for ways to make the connected world a bit safer. Avast, one of the bigger PC and mobile security software firms that competes against the likes of Microsoft, Symantec and McAfee (Intel) for consumer and enterprise […]
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In the past five years, the number of bank loans under $1 million has dropped by more than 20 percent. This puts small business owners, arguably the driving force of our economy, at a severe disadvantage when it comes to starting a business. But Jared Hecht, co-founder of startup success story GroupMe, alongside cofounders Rohan […]
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Joachin Alumnia, the European Commission’s antitrust chief, has today finally given his final verdict on a decade-long antitrust investigation over its search practices against Google: the U.S.-based giant has been given all-clear and will now move forward on implementing remedies, after submitting proposals a third time around. But as soon as decision was made public, […]
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Hadoop distributor Cloudera has released a commercial edition of the Apache Spark program, which analyzes data in real time from within Cloudera’s Hadoop environments. The release has the potential to expand Hadoop’s use for stream processing and faster machine learning. Tweet This Post
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Who will take over for Satya Nadella’s now former role at Microsoft, helming the Server and Enterprise Group? It’s longtime Sofite Scott Guthrie, a respected technologist. TechCrunch confirmed with Microsoft that Guthrie will take the position on an interim basis, maintaining his current job title of corporate vice president. In the Microsoft hierarchy, corporate vice presidents […]
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Last summer, Finally.io launched to help the vast number of companies using cloud services to monitor their performance and make changes when things went awry. Now the company is adding a whole new wrinkle to its service, allowing its clients to set rules that can be used to test the resilience of their cloud infrastructure, […]
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