Saturday January 4, 2025

UpWest Labs Nurtures Promising Israeli Startups In Silicon Valley

 UpWest Labs was founded in 2012  with a simple idea. Israel has tons of startup talent, but much of the funding is in the U.S. The founders decided to put the two together and bring a small group of promising Israeli entrepreneurs to the U.S. for four months to meet customers, partners and investors. Today […]

The Race To Zero Is Awesome

 It’s Sunday, so let’s stretch our legs a little bit. Earlier today Julie Bort of Business Insider wrote an interesting piece detailing the rapidly approaching end game of the storage wars: The prices consumers and businesses pay for cloud storage are racing to zero, and that’s forcing new jockeying inside the crowded industry. Read More […]

Acquia Wants To Bring More Intelligent Personalization To Your Website

 Acquia, the company which has always been the commercial face of the open source Drupal project, has gotten into Customer Experience Management in a big way, and today at the Acquia Engage conference it announced a new tool called Acquia Lift ContextDB, which is supposed to help understand customer behavior better to deliver more relevant content […]

Google Now Lets Enterprises Connect Directly To Its Data Centers

 At its Cloud Platform Live event today, Google announced Google Cloud Interconnect, an interesting new service for businesses that want to make sure that they get the fastest possible connection to their customers. With Cloud Interconnect, Google Cloud Platform users can now choose among three new connectivity options: direct peering; carrier interconnect; and VPN connectivity. […]

The Path To Successful Digital Transformation Starts With Pockets Of Innovation

 I’ve been hearing about “Digital Transformation” for a couple of years now, and as I’ve wandered the halls of Web Summit this week in Dublin, I’ve heard lots of talk about how companies must transform and change the way they approach development and IT, while searching for innovative ways of doing business. But doing that […]

Recent CIO and IT Management Articles

Recent IT Management Articles Related posts: 10 best practices to improve the value of your blog  Blog Best Practices to Improve the Value of Your Blog Blogs can consume a lot of your time.  In order to maximize this effort here… IT Management Suite – complete toolkit  IT Management Suite The IT Management Suite contains […]

Confirmed: Yahoo Loses Amit Kumar, Its Small Business VP And GM

 Yet more personnel changes afoot at Yahoo. Amit Kumar, pictured here, the company’s GM and VP running its small business division, has left the company. Re/code first reported earlier today sources saying that he would be leaving, and now we have confirmed directly with Kumar that he has already left: “Yes, I have left Yahoo […]

Okta Catches SpydrSafe In Its Enterprise Web

 Okta, the enterprise startup whose cloud-based platform lets enterprises manage and authenticate user identity across multiple applications, may have quietly made an acquisition — its first, or at least the first that we have uncovered. It looks like it has purchased a company called SpydrSafe, a mobile security startup that built a platform for companies to manage access to… Read More Tweet […]

Lytro Hits Up The Enterprise With The Introduction Of The Lytro Platform And Dev Kit

 Lytro has been around for three years building a brand new type of camera with light field technology, and while the tech itself is quite incredible, transforming that into a viable business has proven difficult. Until now, the company has been selling special cameras, the original Lytro and the newer, photographer-friendly Illum. It’s a difficult […]

Randstad’s VC Fund Has $60M To Invest In HR Tech Startups Showing Early Traction

 A strategic corporate VC fund set up this April by global HR services giant Randstad is looking to invest in startups working on the hard problem of matching people to jobs, and jobs to people, as well as coming up with more effective ways for employers to communicate with and motivate their existing workforce. Read […]