VMware confirmed that it was laying off 800 employees today as part of its fourth quarter earnings statement. The layoffs had been originally reported by Fortune last week. The move appears to be part of the ongoing dance among EMC federated companies prior to the Dell acquisition expected to go through later this year. Dell announced it […]
Posted on January 26th, 2016 by admin
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Cedexis helps large enterprises monitor and optimize how their traffic flows from their servers, CDNs and cloud providers to their customers. The company today announced that it has raised a $22 million Series B round led by Ginko Ventures with participation from Foxconn, Nokia Growth Partners, Citrix Systems Ventures and its Series A investors Madrona […]
Posted on January 26th, 2016 by admin
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For many years, we’ve had social tools and formal learning management systems, but we have never really had anything that combined the two — until today, that is when SAP announced a new system called SAP Jam Collaboration for learning. The new tool is designed to bring various aspects of corporate learning together in a […]
Posted on January 26th, 2016 by admin
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French startup Botify just raised a $7.2 million Series A round from Idinvest and Ventech. The company uses a software-as-a-service approach to make it as seamless as possible to crawl your website and give you insights into your search engine optimization strategy. Yet, Botify isn’t about making optimizations for you. Instead, it gives you data […]
Posted on January 25th, 2016 by admin
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QASymphony, which makes software testing tools like qTest, has raised a $5 million Series B. The company, which has offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, will use the capital on product development and marketing. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on January 25th, 2016 by admin
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Malwarebytes, a security company that started when its cofounder was still a teenager fixing his parents’ infected computer, has come a long way from its bootstrapped roots. Today the startup’s software is used by millions of consumers and some 70,000 businesses to protect from and clean up computer viruses, worms, trojan horses and more. And now, to grow […]
Posted on January 24th, 2016 by admin
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ForeScout, a security company that helps firms detect devices on their networks they might not know about, announced a $76 million investment round today on a billion dollar valuation, making it a member of the vaunted unicorn club. The company has come a long way in a short time to attain that unicorn status, reporting […]
Posted on January 24th, 2016 by admin
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Some more big news for the world of open source. MariaDB Corporation — the startup formerly known as SkySQL and building for-profit solutions on the SQL fork managed by the MariaDB foundation — has raised another $9 million in funding and announced a new CEO, Michael Howard, a veteran executive from the enterprise world. The funding […]
Posted on January 23rd, 2016 by admin
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Startups are created to solve problems—but that doesn’t matter if the people they want to help don’t know they exist. Iterate Studio was created to match retail companies with startups that have promising technology, but it doesn’t just serve as a matchmaker. Its new cloud-based platform also integrates with popular commerce software and A/B testing […]
Posted on January 23rd, 2016 by admin
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Ransomware is more common than you think Ransomeware has grown in occurrence and sophistication in recent months. One of the best known forms, called CryptoWall, just had Version 4 released. It has a greatly improved ability to hide from antivirus software and firewalls. It is estimated that the distributors of CryptoWall made more than $25 […]
Posted on January 23rd, 2016 by admin
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