Chamberlain Group CIO Bill Radon met with a team of engineers and IT managers in 2012, asking what was next for the company, a leading maker of residential and commercial garage door openers. Earlier, the team had delivered an Internet of Things device called MyQ Gateway to connect customers’ smartphones to a narrow set of […]
Posted on March 19th, 2014 by admin
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Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, has raised $160 million led led by T. Rowe Price, and including an investment by Google Ventures and an affiliate of MSD Capital, L.P., the private investment firm for Michael S. Dell. This brings the company’s total funding to […]
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Dropbox’s business software is ready for a big sales push a it bounds towards an anticipated IPO, so today it announced the opening of a sales and engineering office in New York City. In its first place on the east coast, the cloud storage startup developed at MIT will house ten sales people and two […]
Posted on March 18th, 2014 by admin
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Today Gravie, a health insurance marketplace competing with the likes of Zenefits, has closed a $10.5 million Series A round led by Aberdare Ventures, with participation from exiting investor FirstMark Capital. This comes six months after Gravie closed a $2.6 million seed round, bringing the company’s total funding to more than $13 million. Gravie is […]
Posted on March 18th, 2014 by admin
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Last year, voice technology giant Nuance quietly acquired VirtuOz, a developer of virtual assistants for online sales, marketing and support — a “Siri for the enterprise” that counted with the likes of PayPal and AT&T as customers. Now, Alexandre Lebrun, the founder and CEO of VirtuOz, has taken a dive back into the startup world […]
Posted on March 17th, 2014 by admin
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Salesforce today announced an interesting development in its leadership ranks: General Colin Powell is joining its board of directors. He brings the total number of members of the board up to 11. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on March 16th, 2014 by admin
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In a world rediscovering its old tea drinking habits, finding a freshly-brewed cup of the hot beverage is still very tough, especially if you are a tea aficionado based in the U.S. or Europe. For the world’s second most popular beverage after water, the distribution and production models are still very ancient, perhaps waiting for […]
Posted on March 15th, 2014 by admin
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Real-time search startup Algolia has been doing very well over the past few weeks. Slowly but surely, its search API is taking over every search engine on your favorite websites. The company also launched a new data center in Asia to improve response times with Asian users. As a reminder, Algolia is a developer-friendly hosted […]
Posted on March 15th, 2014 by admin
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CEOs at some of the nation’s leading tech companies see boundless potential for big data and smarter, integrated systems to address major social challenges in areas ranging from medicine to education to transportation — but at the same time, they worry that policymakers at home and abroad could stand in the way of that vision. […]
Posted on March 15th, 2014 by admin
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Over the last three years, we’ve seen an increasing number of tech IPOs – many from consumer facing companies that we’ve long known were headed for an IPO. I’m talking about Facebook, Twitter, Pandora, Yelp, Groupon, Zynga, etc., which most casual observers could see from a mile away. Markets tend to be swayed by sexy […]
Posted on March 14th, 2014 by admin
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