Sunday December 22, 2024

Stanford Dropouts’ “Argo” Raises $1.5M From Accel To Stitch Together Companies’ Small Data

 How do sales performance and social media campaigns influence each other? Most companies don’t know because this data is siloed in different departments. While plenty of startups try to make sense of enterprise “big data” — enormous primary data sets like Facebook’s archive of posts or Netflix’s recommendation insights, a startup called Argo wants to […]

How Facebook At Work Could Shrink Faceless Enterprises

 When you have a question at a small company, you always know who to ask. But as corporations grow, it becomes impossible to remember everyone’s names, let alone their areas of expertise, and communication channels flood with noise. Facebook At Work, the company’s new enterprise collaboration suite, could change that. Read More Tweet This Post

Memo Brings Anonymous Group Sharing To The Enterprise

 Over the last year, we’ve seen a bunch of anonymous (or anonymish) apps crop up on mobile phones, allowing users to share messages with people nearby or those in their social circles. To date, though, most of those apps have been focused on the consumer market. A new app called Memo hopes to capture some […]

Zenefits Financials Reveal It Is One Of The Fastest-Growing SaaS Businesses Ever

 We all knew that cloud HR startup Zenefits is growing fast, but how fast exactly? At the 33rd Annual JPMorganChase Health Care Conference today, Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad plans to share some of the company’s financials, which will put its growth numbers into perspective. Read More Tweet This Post

Samsung Reportedly Approached BlackBerry With A Takeover Bid (Update: BlackBerry Denies)

 Update: BlackBerry has responded with an official denial of takeover talks, while somewhat paradoxically also claiming it doesn’t comment on rumors or speculation. Full statement below: BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ:BBRY)(TSX:BB) (“BlackBerry”) is aware of certain press reports published today with respect to a possible offer by Samsung to purchase BlackBerry. BlackBerry has… Read More Tweet This […]

Neo Technology Bags $20M As Graph Databases Get Hot

 Neo Technology, developers of the neo4j graph database have been growing steadily, and investors have noticed, rewarding them with a $20M Series C pay day. Creandum led the round joined by Dawn Capital and current investors Fidelity Growth Partners Europe, Sunstone Capital and Conor Venture Partners. The company’s last funding round was in November, 2012 for $11M, and this latest… Read […]

Facebook Where? The Enterprise Reacts To Facebook At Work

 Facebook released a public pilot of its long-awaited enterprise social app called Work today, now the question is will businesses actually want to use it. Enterprise Social as a category has been with us for almost a decade with companies like Jive, Yammer (now part of Microsoft) and Socialcast (now part of VMware) trying hard to get […]

Cloud based application improve productivity

Accounting systems must be up-to-date in order to provide the fastest and most efficient reporting.  Cloud-based financial management solutions let companies:    Eliminate tedious, error-prone, reports from Microsoft Excel. See up-to-date and accurate data on every area of your business. Easily create and share customized reports across your organization. Achieve unprecedented agility to ensure your business […]

UK’s Purple WiFi Raises $5M To Push Its Free Social WiFi Service Abroad

 Free public WiFi has become one of the more popular ways that cafes, shops and other public places attract users and then use the connections to serve ads and collect other kinds of anonymised analytics. Now, a startup out of the UK called Purple WiFi has raised some funding for its own twist on the idea: letting […]

The New IBM z13 Is Not Your Father’s Mainframe

 In a time when IBM has been dumping its x86 server business, and the mainframe would seem a relic of a bygone day, Big Blue took five years and invested a cool $1B to develop a new mainframe beast for the modern mobile era. You want a high-end computing system for a contemporary company, the new system dubbed the z13, is smokin’ […]