Palantir, the big data company that secured clients like the NSA, the FBI and the CIA early on, is topping up its recent September funding round with a 50 percent bump in valuation. The company is now valued at $9 billion, according to sources familiar with the deal. An SEC filing released today showed that […]
Posted on December 6th, 2013 by admin
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Seventeen years after its inception, WebMD remains one of the go-to resources for basic health and diagnostic information (and hypochondria enablement) on the Web. Born at the height of the Dot-com Boom, WebMD is on a very short list of companies that were able to not only endure the ensuing crash, but go on to […]
Posted on November 2nd, 2013 by admin
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Cloud management company ServiceMesh has been acquired by CSC, the long-time consulting company that has in recent years emerged as an IT management company that focuses on helping companies mover their apps to service providers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ServiceMesh describes itself as an enterprise cloud management company that offers Global 2000 companies […]
Posted on October 30th, 2013 by admin
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Marco Boerries is CEO and founder of NumberFour – a startup that’s been operating in stealth for four years. Despite being under the radar, it landed a $38 million Series A, led by Index Ventures, back in June, one of the biggest Series A rounds in Europe in recent years. So how was a startup that’s not doing a lot of […]
Posted on October 28th, 2013 by admin
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Cameleon Software, a publicly traded company on the Paris Bourse that automates price quotes, has been acquired for $33 million in an all-cash transaction by PROS, a holding company that specializes in big data software companies. The deal has the approval of Cameleon’s largest shareholders and now faces the process of regulatory approval. Cameleon is in the increasingly competitive configure per quote […]
Posted on October 24th, 2013 by admin
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Enterprise software company Blue Rooster announced today that it has raised $3 million from PFU Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu. Seattle-based Blue Rooster said the funding is the first installment in a multi-stage investment that has not yet been completed. The company plans to open a Hong Kong office and establish a Strategy […]
Posted on October 22nd, 2013 by admin
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Last week, Numerify, announced it had raised $8 million in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. They also received funding from a number of prominent angel investors, including Frank Slootman, CEO of ServiceNow, Amit Singh, president of Google Enterprise and Deep Nishar, SVP of Products and User Experience at Linkedin. The company, […]
Posted on October 7th, 2013 by admin
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IBM has announced the acquisition of Xtifty, a provider of mobile messaging tools that allows push notifications to reach customers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company’s platform leverages a company’s CRM environment, business rules and other data to do targeted campaigns. It offers the capability to target campaigns with scheduled messages, according […]
Posted on October 3rd, 2013 by admin
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Intel has acquired Sensory Networks for $20 million to further extend its security capabilities. Sensory Networks, based in Palo Alto, was founded in 2002 as a hardware company, providing high-performance technology that maps networks by looking for patterns such as spam, malware and other types of intrusions, said Matt Barrie, one of the company’s co-founders […]
Posted on October 1st, 2013 by admin
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The sad truth is that, if everyone on the Forbes 400 list simultaneously (and tragically) got Cancer, or Parkinsons (or any given disease for that matter), the world would probably be well on its way to finding a cure for these illnesses, thanks to the enormous wealth that would be incentivized to back those efforts. […]
Posted on September 20th, 2013 by admin
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