It was less than two years ago that cloud storage startup Box announced a major integration with Google Docs, to let people use the online service from within Box itself. But now that the startup, backed by $284 million in venture funding, is ramping up plans for more services that take it beyond storage, CEO […]
Posted on March 15th, 2013 by admin
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I have five minutes to talk during the panel I am doing tomorrow at SXSW: Enterprise Invades the Apps Playground. It will cover this whole new world of enterprise app marketplaces. A topic of interest for sure, but there is more to this story than just storefronts. It’s also about what developers are doing to […]
Posted on March 8th, 2013 by admin
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Appsecute launched last year with a platform that gave customers a single view across any platform as a service (PaaS). Today the company is showing a change in focus with an activity stream style service for DevOps professionals to see across the multiple services that are used for application management. Co-founder Mark Cox said customers […]
Posted on February 21st, 2013 by admin
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A new feature from Microsoft allows people to share and edit documents from SkyDrive in Office Web Apps without the recipient having to sign in to their Microsoft account. When a user shares an edit link from their account, all the recipients may edit it as well. A user can still require people to sign […]
Posted on February 10th, 2013 by admin
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Apperian has raised a new round of funding from Intel Capital, bringing its total raised to $28 million for the mobile application management company. Apperian did not disclose the funding amount from Intel Capital. Prior to this round, Apperian had $23.4 million in total funding, putting Intel’s investment at $4.6 million. The additional capital builds on […]
Posted on January 28th, 2013 by admin
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Last year, James Smith and Simon Maynard left mobile gaming startup Heyzap, where Smith was the CTO, to build and launch a new venture that aimed to tackle one of the biggest problems they encountered in working with mobile developers: The need for better crash detection. In an attempt to bring some continuity to the […]
Posted on January 18th, 2013 by admin
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For years, Microsoft has been the king of the world’s offices, as its own Office productivity suite dominating the market. If you’ve worked in an office in the last 20 years — preferably at one with computers — chances are good that you’ve used (or at least familiar with) Word, PowerPoint, Excel or Outlook. But, […]
Posted on January 11th, 2013 by admin
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Forrester Research is citing SaaS and data-driven smart apps as the major growth engines for the worldwide software market. The SaaS software market will increase 25 percent in 2013 to $59 billion, a 25 percent increase. In 2014, the market is expected to total $75 billion. Forrester uses the term “smart computing” to define apps […]
Posted on January 4th, 2013 by admin
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IFTTT has received $7 million in funding to build out its capability for customers to automate the flow of notes, photos, text files and other media between different services in a way that gives the user the ability to control information and how it flows. Andreessen Horowitz led the round with NEA and Lerer Ventures […]
Posted on December 22nd, 2012 by admin
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Google has announced a change to Google Apps for Business — ending the free version of the product, offering only its Premium version which costs $50 per user, per year, regardless of the size of the company. The change was announced on Google’s Official Enterprise blog. Existing Google Apps for business users who have free […]
Posted on December 9th, 2012 by admin
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