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 consolidation is afoot in the world of enterprise cloud services in Europe: Claranet, a managed service provider, is paying $88 million (£55 million) to acquire Star, a provider of cloud-based managed technology services. The move is a sign of how, while enterprise cloud services continue to grow in popularity, there is an increasing move […]
Posted on November 24th, 2012 by admin
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A little consolidation in the world of big data and Apache Hadoop development: WANdisco, a UK/U.S.-based provider of collaboration software that focuses on the open-source Apache Subversion revision control system, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Palo-Alto-based AltoStor, which will help it further develop its big data products. Publicly-traded WANdisco is paying $5.1 million, […]
Posted on November 19th, 2012 by admin
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Dell is making a deeper investment in providing converged infrastructures to automate data center operations with the acquisition of Gale Technologies. As part of the purchase, Dell plans to create a separate business group focused on enterprise systems and solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Gale Technologies is a privately held company that […]
Posted on November 16th, 2012 by admin
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Nokia today is taking some big steps to upgrade its Maps division, starting with a big rebrand as Here. To beef up the service, today Nokia also announced that it has acquired earthmine, a specialist in 3D street-level imaging, based out of Berkeley. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Nokia says that the […]
Posted on November 13th, 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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As Facebook continues to mature as a platform, the companies working on it are scaling up to meet the challenge of catching attention on a social network now pushing 1 billion users. In the latest development, the UK-based Facebook app developer iPlatform has been acquired by Betapond, as the Ireland-based Facebook marketer looks to beef […]
Posted on September 27th, 2012 by admin
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Oracle has acquired SelectMinds, a provider of cloud-based, social talent sourcing apps that allow companies to use social networks such as Facebook to recruit employees. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It is Oracle’s year for buying companies in the human capital management market (HCM). Earlier this year it acquired Taleo for $1.92 billion. Taleo’s solutions help customers attract, motivate, […]
Posted on September 19th, 2012 by admin
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To date, Facebook has focused the majority of its revenue efforts on ads, and, to a lesser extent, payment services around apps that run on its social platform. But Facebook commerce, where users buy physical or other good not connected to apps, is one area where Facebook has not done much– yet. In the meantime […]
Posted on September 9th, 2012 by admin
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Some consolidation is afoot in the world of mobile enterprise services. Orlando, Fla.-based Kony Solutions has bought Sky Technologies, a mobility solutions provider specializing in SAP implementations based in Melbourne, Australia. Both companies are private and the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal is the first acquisition for Kony, which has […]
Posted on August 21st, 2012 by admin
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