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FACEBOOK’s Super Bowl tweets more fun than game — Lots of talk about WHISPER — Hints of TWITTER commerce emerge — Secret to happiness in SEATTLE

Edited by T. Trent Gegax & Woody Leonhard | February 3, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Encrypt All Your Shared Data With nCrypted Cloud

Enterprise users who want to use common file-sharing services like Dropbox and Google Drive have a big problem: their IT guys will always be worried that one hacker will be able to bring down their internal network. A new service called nCrypted Cloud is trying to assuage this fear by encrypting everything, everywhere, and offering […]

Thomson Reuters Taps Into Twitter For Big Data Sentiment Analysis

Twitter bases the majority of its revenue on advertising in and around its main content river, but a new service from Thomson Reuters points to how it also continues to build up its position as a big-data provider to different vertical sectors. Thomson Reuters is now incorporating sentiment analysis gained from Twitter for its Eikon market […]

YAHOO hit by lagging ad revs, Alibaba — APPLE turns to Enterprise, AppleTV — FACEBOOK’s open infrastructure — The sad story of @N

January 29, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Still In Stealth, Origami Logic Raises $15M More To Help Marketers Tap The Big Data Mother Lode

Origami Logic, a startup that has created a way for marketers to analyse, visualise and glean insights from the disparate and often impenetrable big data collected by their companies, is today announcing that it has picked up another $15 million in funding, led by Jafco Ventures with participation from existing investors Accel and Lightspeed. Origami […]

Billionaire Jewelry King Launches TaskWorld, A Management Tool All About Performance

Billionaire jewelry king Fred Mouawad has a different take on the world of task management. Most providers have some play on keeping a list or offer a schedule of reminders. But Mouawad, after hanging out at Stanford University to get in geek mode, has built something different. It’s called Taskworld and it’s a task-management app that is […]

GOOGLE sells Motorola, keeps patents — FACEBOOK grabs mobile crown — MICROSOFT eyes Nadella for CEO — ELLISON: IBM, SAP no longer threats

January 30, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Implisit Raises $3.3M For Self-Learning Service That Predicts Next Steps For Sales People

Implisit has raised $3.3 million from Gemini Israel Ventures for its self-learning platform that mines CRM data to help sales people close more deals and cut manual data entry. The service connects email, calendars and the contact information in the CRM platform, said Co-Founder Gilad Raichshtain. It offers follow-up steps for a prospective deal, the best approach and other […]

Salesfusion Acquires Marketing Analytics Platform LoopFuse

Marketing automation platform Salesfusion has purchased LoopFuse, an analytics platform that helps clients find promising new leads, for an undisclosed price. The acquisition comes two weeks after Salesfusion closed a $8.25 million Series B round, bringing its total funding raised so far to $10.1 million. As Ben Kepes at Forbes points out, there has been […]

Nadella in, Gates out @MICROSOFT — GOOGLE stumbles, splits — AMAZON forced to raise Prime price — BOX sneaks IPO filing — Reset YAHOO email password!

January 31, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post