Google’s stock price came close to its 52-week high on the first day of Google I/O today, hitting $915 per share at close. In comparison, Apple today dropped 15 points to close at $428 per share, 277 points off its 52-week high. This morning, Google stock jumped to $909 per share from its opening price of […]
Posted on May 16th, 2013 by admin
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Tango Card, the Seattle-based startup that aggregates digital gift card services from dozens of companies like Amazon, Nike, Target, iTunes, charities and more, has raised $4.125 million in a Series B round of financing led by Allegro Venture Partners. Floodgate, Swan and Legend Ventures, and existing investors Western Technology Investments and Innovation Endeavors, the early-stage […]
Posted on April 30th, 2013 by admin
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The rise in cybercrime, malware and other malicious hacking is seeing a subsequent rise in the fortunes of tech startups that are setting out to fight it. Today, cybercrime solution specialist Endgame announced that it has raised $23 million in a Series B round of equity finance. It will partly use the proceeds to take […]
Posted on March 13th, 2013 by admin
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VMware shares are off to a rough start in 2013. They are down 16 percent since the beginning of the year, with expectations that shares could drop another 20 percent by year’s end. Barron’s, which reported the outlook this morning, examines the numbers pretty thoroughly.The stock enjoyed a big run that started at the depths […]
Posted on February 12th, 2013 by admin
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GitHub had another outage this afternoon. This is getting old. How can GitHub be taken seriously in the enterprise with these kinds of outages? GitHub started showing exceptions at 3:14 PST. By 3:20, GitHub announced on its status page that a database spike caused the service to have a major outage. It makes no difference […]
Posted on January 10th, 2013 by admin
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Influitive, a marketing company that analyses data around social media, influencer networks and other peer-to-peer techniques to spread the word, has raised another $7.3 million — investment that it will use to continue developing its AdvocateHub marketing platform, as well as to build out its own sales and marketing teams, CEO and co-founder Mark Organ told […]
Posted on December 25th, 2012 by admin
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Dell made its own move into the bring your own device market today with the acquisition of Credant Technologies and its data protection technologies designed to encrypt information from smartphones and other devices to servers and the cloud. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition points to the further consolidation of the mobile […]
Posted on December 24th, 2012 by admin
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Paypal co-fouder Peter Thiel, along with existing investors, has invested $49 million in Xero, the online accounting software for small businesses. It is Thiel’s third investment in Xero. Earlier this year, Thiel and existing investors put $16.6 million into the company. Thiel invested $3 million in New Zealand-founded Xero back in 2010. Thiel invested in this round through Valar […]
Posted on November 30th, 2012 by admin
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Freelancer.com, the job outsourcing and freelance IT worker marketplace, has made another acquisition: it has bought vWorker, a job site for freelance coders and other tech professionals. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed but TechCrunch has heard from a source that it is in the region of millions of dollars. vWorker was formerly […]
Posted on November 25th, 2012 by admin
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Some would say the Enterprise has always been sexy (see what I did there?) The tech press doesn’t always give enterprise software startups as much attention as companies on the consumer-focused side. That is slowly changing now, though — the words “enterprise” and “sexy” have shown up together in a growing number of conference panels […]
Posted on November 1st, 2012 by admin
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