At the Launch Conference in San Francisco today, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams took the stage to talk to conference founder Jason Calacanis about everything from his experience at Twitter and the rise of Vine to sharing his take on Google and Facebook as well as the latest from Medium, his latest effort to shape the […]
Posted on March 6th, 2013 by admin
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It can be such a headache trying to figure out what internal collaboration tools a company should use. Even at TechCrunch, where we have a few dozen writers, product and sales people, we’ve switched tools many times and have gripes with all of them. Imagine how it must be for a company with more than […]
Posted on February 14th, 2013 by admin
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NewVoiceMedia, an enterprise startup riding the wave of cloud-based services, has raised $20 million for its business of contact center solutions, which currently serves 8,000 agents in 30 countries. The Series B round was led by Highland Capital Partners and MMC, with participation from existing investors Eden Ventures and Notion Capital, and brings the total […]
Posted on January 29th, 2013 by admin
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Cox Enterprises is perhaps best known for its holdings in areas thought of as “old media” — radio and TV stations and newspapers at Cox Media; cable and telephone services at Cox Communications — but today it made a move to tap into the rise of disruptive technology and startup culture. It’s launching a $250 […]
Posted on January 16th, 2013 by admin
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InfoArmy, only four months into its life as the operator of a crowdsourced competitive intelligence platform, is announcing a significant injection of capital as it continues to build out its business. The company has raised a $17.3 million Series B led by Norwest VenturePartners, with Trinity Ventures also participating. The total raised by InfoArmy to date […]
Posted on October 26th, 2012 by admin
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a new pricing option for its Relational Database Service (RDS) running on Oracle with a micro instance. The addition follows announcements over the past few months about Oracle on AWS. According to AWS, the new option means users can build, test, and run low-traffic, database-backed applications at a cost […]
Posted on September 30th, 2012 by admin
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Research in Motion (RIM) is investing $100 million to grow the developer community for the BlackBerry platform, according to e27, a blog covering the Asia tech scene. The immediate question that comes to mind: “Is it too late?” RIM is trying to save $1 billion after losing 95% of its market share since 1998. It […]
Posted on July 10th, 2012 by admin
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As a culture, we are getting ever-more accustomed to using social networks as our primary hubs for all information, and that trend is leading to the rise of yet more services constructed like social networks to improve accessibility: one of the latest in that line is DoctorsElite, a new site aimed at linking up patients, […]
Posted on May 19th, 2012 by admin
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Trying new APIs is tricky. You can spend hours setting things up, gaining permissions, and learning syntax before you even get to write one line of code. That’s why CodeNow.com is cool. In short, it allows you to try APIs before you invest too much time into them and, as an added bonus, it acts […]
Posted on May 5th, 2012 by admin
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Don’t you just hate when you’re out skateboarding, minding your own business, and suddenly one of the wheels comes off and you break a kneecap? Well now there’s a new startup called BoardProspects, which aims to help companies build better boards. A quick glance at their website reveals that the company is not going to […]
Posted on February 10th, 2012 by admin
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