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GuideSpark Raises $15M To Become Your One-Stop HR Training Resource

Menlo Park-based startup GuideSpark has raised a new $15 million Series B from NEA, as well as existing investors Storm Ventures and IDG Ventures. GuideSpark previously raised $5 million in a Series A round, and offers companies SaaS applications and eLearning content aimed at streamlining an organization’s HR processes, and bringing them out of paper […]

Polish Marketing Automation Platform SALESmanago Raises $1.7M

SALESmanago, a cloud based online marketing automation platform based out of Poland, has raised a $1.7 million round of funding — money it will use to for R&D, product development, and marketing, including further international expansion. The investment was led by Rafał Brzoska, the founder of InPost, the parcel lockers network for e-Stores that operates […]

MICROSOFT’s C-suite shuffle — FACEBOOK’s drone-delivered Wi-Fi — Chicago taxis ditch CREDIT CARDS — DISH going Internet TV — TWITTER’s vintage log-cabin offices

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Reflektion Raises $8M From Intel, Nike To Help Retailers Predict What Shoppers Will Buy Next

Reflektion, a predictive analytics startup that helps retailers such as O’Neill improve customer conversion rates, has raised $8 million in Series B funding led by Intel Capital and Nike. The startup plans to use this additional funding in beefing up sales, marketing and also launch its e-commerce and business intelligence products. Predicting what customers plan […]

Self-Destructing And Encrypted Message App Wickr Raises $9M Series A Led By Alsop Louie

The sale of WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion and the heightened awareness of data security in an NSA-watched world have created a perfect storm for apps that offer messaging with a privacy-first ethos. Wickr, which lets users send encrypted and self-destructing messages, is today announcing that it has raised a Series A of $9 […]

APPLE throws CarPlay into drive — Microsoft’s CORTANA takes on Siri — WINDOWS XP won’t die — COOK book, a mystery — ANDROID steals Apple tablet crown

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Microsoft’s OneDrive For Business Throws Down Gauntlet For Box, Dropbox

Microsoft announced today that the business end of OneDrive, its cloud storage offering, would be unshackled from its other services, and sold as a standalone cloud storage solution for corporate customers. Cue a surprised gasp from the audience. Read More Tweet This Post

Softgarden And 1000jobboersen Merge To Create European Recruiting-as-a-Service Powerhouse

Two Berlin-based startups are merging: softgarden, which provides web-based recruiting software to handle the entire recruitment process, is joining forces with 1000jobboersen.de, a job ad media planning service. The new entity — softgarden E-Recruiting — claims to be Europe’s largest Recruiting-as-a-Service provider, with more than 5,000 clients. Read More Tweet This Post

Which vendors will be on target in the era of New IT

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IBM’s Cloudant deal will deliver NoSQL on demand

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