If today isn’t your first day in the tech industry (or reading TechCrunch), then you’re likely familiar with the rise of the accelerator program, a phenomenon that has swept through Startup Land like wildfire over the last five years. Pioneered by early movers like Y Combinator and TechStars as part of experiments that aimed to […]
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Microsoft has launched new Office for iPad software, finally, after people have been asking for it since, oh, say, the day in 2010 when the iPad originally launched. The new apps are currently available for anyone to download, so you can scratch that four-year itch, but is it worth it? Read on to find out […]
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Intel is investing in distributed computing software company Cloudera as it looks to tune more software to its x86 processors. Intel did not comment on how much it was investing in Cloudera, but in a statement said the amount was “significant.” Cloudera makes software tools for large amounts of data to be processed across multiple […]
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To catch a sophisticated cybercriminal in today’s age, IT departments must look deeper into their web traffic and examine many sources of information about web visitors and sessions to determine what behavior is typical and what is not. Existing solutions for detecting and analyzing online criminal behavior usually identify either pre-authentification threats , or post […]
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Microsoft is not just placating user demand with the Office for iPad apps it launched today; it’s also selling Office 365 subscriptions directly within the app. Those subs are worth a pretty penny to Microsoft, as it collects a recurring revenue stream starting at $99 per year per user from Office 365, but it turns […]
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Adam Draper and Brayton Williams launched Boost.vc in 2012 at a time when the accelerator market was beginning to burst at the seams with new entrants — some would say it was nearing saturation. In an effort to differentiate their approach and attract quality startups amidst the growing noise in Accelerator Land, the Boost founders […]
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With big tech investments come big expectations. So says a survey of 313 IT and business professionals released by Computerworld’s research group. Compared to a similar survey done in 2012, a higher percentage of respondents reported this year that they are adopting, have already deployed or have optimized their ROI from mobile (74%), cloud (58%) […]
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Today Dell and Microsoft announced that they have signed an agreement relating to intellectual property, which will see the two companies “license each company’s applicable” patents regarding Android and Chrome OS devices, as well as Xbox consoles. Read More Tweet This Post
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Box CEO Aaron Levie is credited with bringing sexy back to enterprise startups, but the big surprise in Box’s S-1 IPO document filed today is that Levie only owns 5.7% percent of the company. Meanwhile, Draper Fisher Jurvetson owns 25.5 percent. The numbers reveal Levie sold off much of his startup to raise the $414 […]
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SAP is continuing to merge its HANA in-memory database platform with its Business Warehouse data warehousing software, with the latest update adding support for HANA’s real-time data loading services. Companies with large data warehouses often load information sets at off-peak times, such as in overnight batch jobs. But with the general availability of Business Warehouse […]
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