Wednesday January 1, 2025

BYOD Service Enterproid Raises $12M From Google Ventures And Changes Name To “Divide”

Enterproid, which has changed its name to Divide, announced $12 million in funding today from Google Ventures in a Series B round for its service that encrypts a device and separates a person’s personal and work data. Existing investors Comcast Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures also participated and were joined by new investors Globespan Capital Partners and Harmony […]

Google modifies Analytics in EU-wide privacy concession

Following mounting pressure from data protection agencies (DPAs) in different European countries, Google has started offering so-called data processing agreements to websites using its Google Analytics suite in the European Union, Iceland, Norway or Switzerland. Up to now Google did not provide such contracts because it maintains that it does not process personal data. Since […]

4 simpler alternatives to Google Analytics

Let’s get it out of the way up front: You’re a fool if you don’t include Google Analytics in your toolkit as a way to track your website’s traffic. The advantages are almost too numerous to list. A de facto industry standard, its reports are often taken as gospel by advertisers. Tweet This Post

Google, SAP, Cisco & Samsung Among Potential Tech Buyers For Some Or All Of BlackBerry, Says Reuters

Google, SAP and Cisco are among a number of technology companies interested in buying up portions — or all — of BlackBerry’s business, according to Reuters, which cites several sources close to the matter. BlackBerry has also apparently asked for preliminary expressions from Intel, LG and Samsung, by early next week. Portions of the business of most interest to […]

Feds nab SILK ROAD mastermind — DELL still kicking — Patent troll LODSYS defeated — Cerberus sizing up BLACKBERRY — GOOGLE grabs gesture startup

October 3, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

MICROSOFT eyes Ford’s Mulallay, new app store — BALLMER cries, dances, screams — GOOGLE releases new mobile Search — Tired: Yachts, Wired: Submarines

September 27, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

T-MOBILE drops BlackBerry — GATES admits control-alt-delete ‘a mistake’ — GOOGLE supports #hashtag search — EBAY eliminates/buys PayPal rival — Counting TWITTER’s investor winnings

September 26, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

WTF Is Calico, And Why Does Google Think Its Mysterious New Company Can Defy Aging?

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. […]

iOS 7 into the wild, iPhone sales brisk — MOSSBERG: 5S ‘best smartphone’ — GOOGLE gives up cookies — More tech IPOs BUBBLING up — RIP Wayne Green

September 18, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

NSA gets SWIFT — MICROSOFT and Nokia were on eve of WAR — GOOGLE dumps MySQL — EV WILLIAMS thinks big

September 16, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post