Business is under intense pressure to transform these days whether it’s finding ways to capitalize on mobile, social, the cloud or big data or taking it a step further and becoming a truly digital enterprise. That was the message this week at the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit in LA –and as I listened […]
Posted on May 9th, 2014 by admin
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Workshare, a company that helps law firms and others manage, secure and collaborate around documents, today announced financing of $8.4M in the form of a revolving line of credit from the Technology Finance Division of Wells Fargo Capital Finance. The line of credit is in addition to $33.8M in funding they received in September, 2012, which they […]
Posted on May 8th, 2014 by admin
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Another big round for a fast-growing enterprise startup focused on big data and the cloud. InsideSales.com has raised a mammoth $100 million, at what DJ’s Venture Wire is reporting the valuation at “nearly” $1 billion. Polaris Partners led the Series C round, with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers the other major investor, along with participation from Salesforce, Acadia Woods, EPIC… Read […]
Posted on May 7th, 2014 by admin
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Salesforce.com is releasing Social Studio, a new product that combines features from its Radian6 social-media-monitoring technology with the content publishing capabilities of its Buddy Media software for marketers. Social media has rapidly gained prominence as a target for marketers, but many companies are using a slew of different tools, resulting in a disjointed, inefficient effort […]
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Today, FireEye, a security and intrusion detection company, bought nPulse Technologies to beef up its security platform by giving customers easier insight into the nature of a network intrusion. According to FireEye, they will pay approximately $60 million in cash, and issue around $10 million in stock consideration that is subject to the achievement of certain milestones. They […]
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Real-time communication platform HipChat is facilitating more than just text-based messaging with its most recent feature addition – it now supports one-to-one video chat, audio calls and screensharing across its apps for paid users. The move follows a beta test of these features, but now the feature is live for anyone, and HipChat founder Pete […]
Posted on May 6th, 2014 by admin
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The demand for job skills related to data processing — NoSQL, Apache Hadoop, Python, and a smattering of other such skills — has hit all-time highs, according to statistics collected by tech job site Dice.com. Tweet This Post
Posted on May 6th, 2014 by admin
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When I spoke to SugarCRM CTO Clint Oram last week, he sang a familiar refrain: The software sales process was changing profoundly from one which had been completely IT-focused to one centered on end users and business units — and this was due in large part to the ease of deployment brought on by the […]
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Beatswitch has closed a €250,000 seed round from Strike4 to further develop its cloud-based platform that lets artists, booking agencies and festival organizers collaborate more efficiently, and to eventually launch across Europe. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on May 5th, 2014 by admin
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This afternoon, SAP announced in a statement that Vishal Sikka, Executive Board Member for Products and Innovation, has resigned for personal reasons. The resignation was effective immediately. At the same time, SAP named a couple of new executive board members, including Robert Enslin and Bernd Leukert. The news could indicate some disarray or possibly a power […]
Posted on May 5th, 2014 by admin
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