Fon, a free “crowdsourced” WiFi network that is created out of people sharing a portion of their private WiFi connections, is today announcing another $14 million in funding led by Qualcomm Ventures as it gears up to tackle new areas like the U.S. and business users. It will also be teaming up with Facebook around […]
Posted on January 20th, 2014 by admin
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PC Monitor is an Irish startup that was born of a simple idea: Why is it so hard to remotely shut down your computer? That’s what its founder and CEO Marius Mihalec asked himself in 2011. Because he wanted to build a modern and extensible service, he decided that just having remote desktop access to a […]
Posted on January 17th, 2014 by admin
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Managing human resources is one of the more frustrating and time-consuming aspects of running a startup or small business. Because most can’t afford to hire an HR person, all that paperwork usually falls into the lap of founders and management. Knowing that entrepreneurs would rather spend their time growing their business rather than wading through […]
Posted on January 11th, 2014 by admin
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Biba, an Internet conferencing startup that came out of stealth last spring, today launched a new desktop app with screen-sharing capability and HD audio. The service, designed originally to be used on iOS and Android operating systems, is now available on both Mac and Windows machines. Biba follows the concept that today’s services are more than […]
Posted on December 3rd, 2013 by admin
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Firebase, a real-time back-end service for managing apps, has added an integration with Zapier, a platform for connecting services such as SendMail, Twitter and Twilio. The new integration means developers can connect multiple apps without having to do any back-end server management themselves. A developer using Firebase can now integrate apps that before would have required […]
Posted on November 28th, 2013 by admin
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Google Cloud SQL now supports native MySQL connections, a move that is intended to make it easier to integrate third-party applications. With the support, native MySQL apps can be plugged into Cloud SQL, allowing the customer to leave system administration and management for Google. Through MySQL Wire Protocol, the standard connection protocol for MySQL databases, Google maintains that […]
Posted on October 31st, 2013 by admin
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Google App Engine has added a new starter package to speed iOS development. The new service, Mobile Backend Starter for iOS, is designed to speed the development of connected mobile apps without writing server-side code. The new service allows users to store data in the cloud and share it between users. The libraries also offer a developer the ability […]
Posted on October 10th, 2013 by admin
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Egnyte has a new look and with it a new platform that allows customers to share the most sensitive documents that historically file-sharing and storage services have not had the security in place to manage. The new Storage Connect virtual appliance maps internal files to a cloud access layer across one or multiple sites. The data plane is behind the […]
Posted on September 25th, 2013 by admin
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Zoom, the Santa Clara-based cloud video conferencing startup that last raised $6 million in January, has raised another $6.5 million in a Series B round of funding that has just closed. The new round is led by Facebook, Waze and Siri investor Horizons Ventures Hong Kong, and included existing investors Patrick Soon-Shiong and former Yahoo! […]
Posted on September 24th, 2013 by admin
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Photo-sharing services like Instagram have become some of the most popular of all mobile apps, and today Twilio launched a new service that could help a much larger swathe of developers tap into that trend: picture messaging. Alongside that, it has also given its messaging services a mini-revamp: it has dropped the price of its […]
Posted on September 18th, 2013 by admin
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