Tuesday December 24, 2024

Dropbox Overhauls Chooser As Platform Adds “Tens of Thousands” Of Developers Each Week

Dropbox, which is courting developers to make it easier for consumers to add and use files wherever they want, just overhauled its “Chooser” feature. Introduced in November of last year, it was designed to make it easy for developers to build in an “attach from Dropbox feature” instead of having to create one from scratch. […]

FuzeBox Adds 50K New Enterprise Subscribers In Q1 2013, Debuts Improved iPad Client

San Francisco-based virtual meeting player FuzeBox has had some impressive success to kick-off 2013, posting a 200 percent rise in demand for its product in the initial quarter of the year, with 50,000 new subscribers added in just a few short months. The company also now counts 30 percent of the Fortune 500 among its […]

Wrike Adds Real-Time Update Capabilities To Let Employees Manage Tasks Online And Offline

Wrike has enhanced its task-management offering with new features that offer online and offline, real-time updates. The additions allow customers to track changes of online documents in tasks and projects, as well as provide the ability to track who made the edits and when, thanks to baked-in version control. Wrike’s intent is to combine the document-editing […]

Social Platform Unison Adds Voice And Video Using WebRTC, Features You Won’t Find In Yammer, Convo Or Chatter

The news feed is getting increasingly complex. It’s evident in Salesforce Chatter, which has added a new layer to the feed for sales people to add, edit or complete deals. Unison is breaking through the added confusion of the feed by changing the metaphor and the information architecture with a new capability to leverage WebRTC. […]

Windows Azure Adds Support For PhoneGap, Dropbox and Hadoop

Windows Azure has added new support for a number of services including PhoneGap, Dropbox and Hadoop. According to a blog post by Scott Guthrie, a corporate vice president in the Microsoft Tools and Servers group, developers can connect both HTML5 web-client apps, Apache Cordova/PhoneGap and Windows Phone 7.5 clients to use Windows Azure Mobile Services as a […]

YC-Backed Zaranga Adds Dynamic, Priceline-Style Purchasing To Vacation Rentals

The business of holiday home rentals has been one of the most natural areas to migrate to the world of e-commerce — the ability to search for and view lots of properties makes it a significant improvement on whatever it was that people used to do in the past (magazines? vacation agencies? brochures?), and that […]

Enterprise Social Network Startup Batterii Closes $2.5M Seed, Led By CincyTech, As It Builds Out Feature-Set & Adds Android App

Cincinnati-based enterprise social network startup Batterii, which describes itself as a co-creation software platform, has closed a $2.5 million seed round let by public-private seed stage investor CincyTech – which contributed $500,000 to the round. Other investors include Batterii CEO Kevin C. Cummins, Los Angeles-based investor Ken Salkin, and undisclosed individuals. As well as offering enterprise collaboration tools […]

Kera Adds Subtitle Option And Analytics To Its Guided, Interactive Web Tool Tutorials

Kera, a Toronto-based startup set to revolutionize the software product demo space with guided tutorials that are interactive and live on a site, instead of in a static video, has just launched new subtitle and captioning features, as well as basic analytics to help websites using its tech track user participation. This iteration on the […]

Windows Azure Media Services Opens Up, Adds New Platform For Developers

Windows Azure Media is now open to general availability and promises scaling capabilities for streaming on-demand video to consumers on any device. The service is targeting enterprise and consumer services. In his blog post, Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie said that a customer can build a media service for delivering training videos to employees or stream video content to a […]

Acceleprise Adds 8 Companies To New Class, Shows Growth Of Enterprise Startup Culture

Acceleprise, an accelerator for enterprise startups, has announced eight new companies for its latest class. The companies were chosen from an applicant pool twice the size of the previous class. Acceleprise is also adding a class and increasing the number of companies it accepts. It will now do three classes a year with eight companies […]