Wednesday December 25, 2024

HP Combines Printers And PC Divisions Into The Printing and Personal Systems Group

HP announced today that the two of the company’s largest divisions will be combined into one, if you will, super division. The Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) and Personal Systems Group (PSG) are joining together to be called The Printing and Personal Systems Group. This is a long time coming. As the press release mentions, […]

ReportGrid Launches Precog To Help You Turn Big Data Into Smarter Apps

Back in October, ReportGrid closed a $750K seed round with investors like Launch Capital, David Cohen, Walt Winshall, Doug Derwin, and Ed Roman — not long after it graduated from TechStars’ summer program in Boulder. The interest in ReportGrid was due to the fact that the company offers data analytics as a service (or DAaaS, […]

Podio Plugs Google Docs Into Its Collaboration Tools

Startup Podio says it just addressed one of the top feature requests from the 40,000 companies that use its collaboration tools — it now integrates with Google Docs. When TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis wrote about Podio a year ago, she called it “Yammer with its own app store and app builder.” Judging from the demo I […]

Facebook And eBay Team Up To Breathe New Life Into Social Commerce

“We’re at an inflection point”, eBay CEO John Donahoe said from the stage at Innovate, eBay’s brand new developer conference that launched today in San Francisco. “We’ll see more change in how consumers shop and pay in the next three years than we’ve seen in the last 15 years”. Donahoe’s prediction for the future came […]

Mindshare Technologies Lands $20 Million To Turn Customer Feedback Into Actionable Intelligence

Mindshare Technologies, the provider of survey technologies and realtime customer feedback solutions, announced today that it has received a $20 million investment from Sorenson Capital, a private equity firm that specializes in buyout and growth equity investments. The PrivateBank and Trust Company also contributed to the investment, which will be used to accelerate product growth […]

Use Yammer Connect To Integrate Log-Ins And Feeds Into Third-Party Applications

Enterprise social networking platform Yammer is expanding the reach of its network today, launching Yammer Connect. The new plug-ins allows users to bring their Yammer identity to other business applications and an Embed feature enables companies to embed Yammer feeds into their intranet or other apps. Using a JavaScript API, developers can add the Yammer […]

Casio CA-01C: 3D Feature Phone And Digital Camera Rolled Into One

Japan’s mobile carriers are currently releasing a number of interesting handsets, which are all part of their summer 2011 line-up. While smartphones, the iPhone and Android in particular, are taking over the Japanese market, there are still some cool feature phones coming out, too. Case in point: the Casio CA-01C [JP], which NTT Docomo (Japan’s […]

Goldman Sachs Pumps A Whopping $70M Into Virtualization Company AppSense

AppSense, which specializes in what it calls ‘user virtualization’ solutions, has raised $70 million in its very first round of funding. Interestingly, the entire investment comes from one backer, Goldman Sachs, whose managing director Pete Perrone will be joining the company’s board of directors. AppSense says it will use the funds to “capitalize on its […]

Google Turns Dozens Of Its Consumer Products Into Enterprise Apps

Earlier this year, Google announced that it would be rolling out Apps interactivity with iGoogle, YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, and other products in the Google family. Today the search giant is making over 60 of its homegrown products available for a deep integration for all types of Google Apps accounts. Services like Google Voice, Reader, Analytics […]

PayPal May Have Quietly Plowed +$16 Million Into “The Next PayPal,” TradeShift

When the media calls you “The Next PayPal,” you can bet the real PayPal will come a’knocking. Or throw fistfuls of cash in your direction. According to a reliable source with knowledge of the transaction, e-invoicing company, TradeShift has just secured between €12 to €15 million euros from PayPal ($16 to $21 M dollars). The […]