Monday December 30, 2024

Deep Identity Raises $470,000 To Help Companies Manage Access On Their Networks

 Deep Identity, a Singapore-based startup that helps companies manage access to their internal networks and services, has raised US$470,000 (SG$589,000) to expand its services into the cloud and open a presence in Europe. Read More Tweet This Post

Searching For Truths In Big, Enormous, Massive Data

 We have so much data, mountains and mountains of data. In fact, there’s so much, the name ‘Big Data’ doesn’t even do it justice. Maybe we should call it humongous data or at least enormous data. Yet for all this data, it seems we are lost in those piles of data, no closer to the answers […]

Ex-Nokians Launch Employee Wellness App Wellmo

 Born from the ashes of Nokia’s ‘Wellness’ initiative — part of Nokia Research Center, which, by some estimates, helped make the once mobile giant the third largest R&D spender in Europe as recently as 2011 — is Wellmo, another Finnish startup operating in the health and fitness space. Founded by ex-Nokians, Jaakko Olkkonen (who headed up Nokia’s… […]

OrderWithMe Raises Another $28M To Help Small Businesses Procure Like Big Ones

 OrderWithMe, a startup based out of Las Vegas that has built a platform for small businesses to come together to effectively act like big ones to source, order and pay for supplies and components – has raised another $28 million in funding. The company says the money will be used to build out its operations to new […]

Veradocs Scores $14M To Help Secure Documents Across File Sharing Services

 Veradocs, a new data security company that purports to protect data and documents across services wherever they go, announced $14M in Series A funding today. The round is led by Battery Ventures with additional funding from Amplify Partners and angel investors, including Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight. The company also announced that Robin Daniels, who was formerly the head […]

Cisco’s New Project Squared Collaboration Tool Offers Modern Alternative To Aging WebEx

 Cisco announced a new communications and collaboration platform today, they have dubbed Project Squared, which has been built from the ground up as a cloud-mobile tool designed to work smoothly across platforms regardless of the device. The tool lets you view audio and video, have multi-party meetings and share content in a single view. And it offers a […]

Windows 10 Technical Preview Build ’9879′ Touches Down Today

 Short note here for all you on Windows 10: Expect a new build of the code today. What’s in build ’9879?’ We have a few ideas, but I presume that there will be more in the build than the market current expects. I hope, at least. It isn’t clear what time today the version of […]

MLB Runs Its Massive Statcast Tool In The AWS Cloud

 Major League Baseball recognizes it’s a software-defined world and as such over the last several years, it’s been moving quickly to create applications to enhance the fan experience and let them watch and interact with MLB properties, wherever they are on whatever device they wish to use. But MLB is also a statistics-driven game so […]

Microsoft Updates Windows 10′s Preview With Gesture Support, OneDrive Tweaks And Bug Fixes

 As expected, Microsoft released a new build of Windows 10′s technical preview today for users who are in the “Fast” update cycle for the company’s next operating system. The build contains a few changes that users requested, including new animations for minimizing applications, and the ability to change what buttons appears on the Start bar. […]

Microsoft Buys Israeli Hybrid Cloud Security Startup Aorato In $200M Deal

 Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired Aorato, an Israel-based maker of security solutions co-founded by veterans of the Israeli defense forces, which only exited from stealth earlier this year. Aorato’s focus is on enterprise services in the cloud and in hybrid on-premise and cloud environments, using machine learning to detect suspicious patterns. The terms […]