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Posted on September 17th, 2013 by admin
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Timed to coincide with VMware’s conference this week in San Francisco, one of its bigger rivals, Parallels, today is unveiling a new app that takes its own virtualization software to a new screen: the iPad. More than a year in the making, Parallels Access for iPad is not the first tablet-friendly product released by the […]
Posted on August 28th, 2013 by admin
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The emergence of vertically integrated e-commerce operations like Everlane and Flint and Tinder highlights how a new generation of startups is using entrepreneurial muscle for economic regeneration in the U.S. And the growth of these companies is a sign of how consumers are supporting this idea, too. New startup Maker’s Row now wants to take […]
Posted on July 19th, 2013 by admin
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LinkedIn, the social network used by people for job hunting and making other business connections, is adding two more enhancements to its homepage that highlight one of its more unnerving, but occasionally useful, elements: how it tracks what people visit on the site and then reports on that activity. From today, it will start showing […]
Posted on July 6th, 2013 by admin
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Google just launched Google App Engine 1.8.1 with a host of new features, most notable among them a long-awaited search API and push-to-deploy feature similar to pushing code to a Git repository. The new features follow a busy Google I/O that witnessed the company showing its strongest push ever into the cloud services market. Until […]
Posted on June 17th, 2013 by admin
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Panzura has raised $25 million for its global file system that stores and moves data in a fast, secure manner. Meritech Capital Partners led the D round. The company has now raised $58 million and expects to pursue an initial public offering. Panzura is one of those plays that appeals to the enterprise CIO who […]
Posted on June 6th, 2013 by admin
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Another key chapter in Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola is getting concluded. Today Arris announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Department of Justice for its acquisition of Motorola Home broadband unit from Google — a deal valued at $2.35 billion when it was announced in December 2012 — $2.05 billion in […]
Posted on April 14th, 2013 by admin
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Dropbox is renaming Dropbox Teams to better reflect its change in business focus. The move comes in tandem with Dropbox’s new support for single sign on (SSO) and partnerships with Okta and other identity providers. Dropbox for Business will replace the old name, reflecting the company’s change in focus to be more on larger business […]
Posted on April 10th, 2013 by admin
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Spanning Cloud Apps has raised $6 million, in part from The Foundry Group but primarily from an undisclosed strategic investor. One thing is for sure, Google is not the one investing. That is if Spanning CEO and Founder Charlie Wood was speaking the truth at SXSW when I asked him if he’d accept an investment from the search […]
Posted on March 22nd, 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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