One of the most frustrating things that can happen at work is finding out that an important email is locked away in a colleague’s inbox, and you can’t get a hold of some crucial information until that colleague comes back online. That’s a problem that startup AffinityLive is trying to solve with its new product […]
Posted on October 6th, 2012 by admin
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Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff said on stage today at Disrupt San Francisco 2012 that Yammer should not have sold to Microsoft and that he passed on buying them due to the conflicts with Chatter — its own activity stream product. “You can do so much more when you are independent,” Benioff said. “They still have […]
Posted on September 16th, 2012 by admin
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Palo Alto Networks shares climbed 26% in its first day of trading today on the New York Stock Exchange. Shares closed at $53, up from its $42 offering price.The company offered 6.3 million shares in trading. The price of the share were originally offered at range of $34 to $37. It was increased to a range […]
Posted on July 20th, 2012 by admin
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Is Dell becoming an open source company? Yes, but it is not exactly being planned that way. It is bubbling up like most open source projects do. But in many respects the move to open source is also by design. Dell does not want to be a box maker anymore. That makes open source a […]
Posted on July 20th, 2012 by admin
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Updated Electronic signature platform DocuSign has raised $47.5 million in Series D funding. The round was first revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the company just sent me a few details. DocuSign has also confirmed that Mary Meeker, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner (and former Morgan Stanley analyst) […]
Posted on July 13th, 2012 by admin
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Most businesses need to be able keep in touch with their customers and provide customer service over the phone, but rolling out a call center can be expensive. Not just that, but most call center software today isn’t very good at keeping tabs on customers and presenting all the information that businesses need to serve […]
Posted on May 23rd, 2012 by admin
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Zayo Group, a company that provides fiber-based bandwidth, voice, and managed services to carrier, enterprise, SME, and government customers, has acquired fellow bandwidth connectivity company AboveNet for approximately $2.2 billion, or $84.00 per share in cash (a 13% premium over AboveNet’s closing price on March 16). As part of the transaction, GTCR, a leading Chicago-based […]
Posted on March 20th, 2012 by admin
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Amazon has just announced that it will acquire order fulfillment company Kiva Systems for $775 million in cash. We’ve embedded the release below. Kiva Systems’ interconnected hardware and software package is designed to streamline the process of picking, packing and shipping e-commerce products for delivery. The company uses hundreds of autonomous mobile robots and a […]
Posted on March 19th, 2012 by admin
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Oracle this morning announced that it is acquiring cloud-based talent management solutions provider Taleo for $46 per share or roughly $1.9 billion, net of Taleo’s cash and debt. Taleo’s solutions basically help organizations attract, motivate and retain human capital, and will service to boost Oracle’s Public Cloud offering. The transaction is expected to close in […]
Posted on February 9th, 2012 by admin
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IP phone company ShoreTel has today announced that it is beefing up its offerings by acquiring unified communications company M5 Networks in a deal that is valued up to $146 million in cash and stock. ShoreTel’s motivation for snatching up M5 was an effort to be able to offer its customers a choice of either […]
Posted on February 2nd, 2012 by admin
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