Sunday December 22, 2024

Lystable Helps Companies Manage Their Freelancers, Vendors And More

 “Supplier management” might not sound like the most exciting problem for a startup to solve, but Lystable might actually be doing something crucial for its customers. As businesses find themselves relying on more freelancers and vendors, Lystable helps them manage those relationships. Read More Tweet This Post

Mainframe Combines The Best Of Slack And Email

 History has shown that you can’t topple email. The legacy technology invented in the early days of the net is too entrenched to be abandoned. But newer startups have found a way to at least move some communication outside of email, such as with team collaboration platforms like Yammer or Slack. Read More Tweet This […]

Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client, Says Mitchell Baker Memo

 The Mozilla Foundation looks like it’s about to take another step in its bid to sharpen its focus on development around its Firefox browser. Mozilla now wants to once and for all hive off support for Thunderbird, the free email, chat and news client it first developed in 2004 but effectively stopped directly updating in in 2012. […]

Residential Real Estate Platform Nestio Lands An $8M Series A Round

 Nestio, the NY-based leasing and marketing platform for residential landlords, announced today that is has raised $8M in Series A funding. The round was led by Trinity Ventures, and had participation from previous investors, including Freestyle Capital, Joanne Wilson and TechStars. Read More Tweet This Post

AppDynamics Update Helps Track Business Transaction From User To Server

 In a week when a major retail website went down under the pressure of Cyber Monday, AppDynamics, a company that helps monitor apps and websites in order to prevent those types of outages (or at least understand why they happened and recover as quickly as possible) announced a major update today. The latest version helps identify those big […]

United Airlines Is Giving Its 6,000 Customer Service Reps The iPhone 6 Plus

 Apple has advanced its relationship with United after the airline announced plans to outfit its 6,000 or so customer service reps with the iPhone 6 Plus. Read More Tweet This Post

Atheer Acquires OnTheGo For Its Enterprise AR Platform

 Atheer, a company that builds augmented reality glasses and software for the enterprise, today announced that it has acquired Portland’s OnTheGo Platforms (OTG). OTG has long specialized in building a gesture recognition system that can work on any mobile devices with a standard camera. The five-person company has taken funding from a number of prominent […]

TalentSky Is Building A Professional Network With A Focus On Verified Skills

 Rick Devine has spent more than a decade as an executive recruiter, and even introduced Steve Jobs to his eventual successor Tim Cook back in 1998. Now he’s working on a startup called TalentSky, aiming to address some of the big problems he sees in the hiring landscape — specifically, the big “skills gap,” where employers can’t find job applicants […]

Dell Could Be Shopping Some Assets To Help Relieve EMC Deal Debt Load

 Since Dell announced its intention to buy EMC for $67 billion in October, there has been a lot of speculation about how the company was going to pay off the massive $40 billion debt it used to finance the deal. I wrote about some of the EMC assets Dell might consider selling to help offset the […]

uMake Raises $5.2M To Take On AutoDesk And Others In The World Of 3D Design

 The 3D market has seen an explosion of interest on the back of new hardware to create and experience it, from 3D cameras and VR headgear through to 3D printers; and a raft of popular content that has taken advantage of this. But with a lot of the tools to create 3D content still coming […]