Lots of news this week in the platform-as-a-service market (PaaS) with companies like Apprenda extending its technology to offer on-premise and hybrid methods for deploying enterprise applications. Apprenda, with its new 4.0 release, allows a customer to run a PaaS simultaneously beween the data center and a cloud infrastructure. The service means that a company […]
Posted on November 27th, 2012 by admin
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UberConference, the online conferencing calling solution (and TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2012 winner), today launched a version of its service designed for enterprise customers, and other larger organizations. Called UberConference Business, this upgraded plan essentially offers all the premium features from the company’s $10/month “Pro” version, while also adding admin tools and management features, as well […]
Posted on November 10th, 2012 by admin
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Wrike, the increasingly popular social project management and collaboration platform, just announced the re-launch of its mobile apps for iPhone and Android. In addition, Wrike also launched a new mobile web app for all other platforms. It’s worth noting that this isn’t Wrike’s first foray into mobile apps. The company released a set of iPhone, […]
Posted on November 5th, 2012 by admin
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Cloud-based data warehouse company Treasure Data officially opened its doors this week with $1.5 million in funding that includes an investment from Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto – the creator of the Ruby programming language. The other investors include angel investor Bill Tai; Naren Gupta of Nexus Venture and a director with Red Hat and TIBCO, as […]
Posted on September 28th, 2012 by admin
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Augusto Marietti, Marco Palladino and Mike Zonca founded Mashape in November 2010 to create a unified, all-in-one marketplace where one could go to find, sell, distribute, and hack on APIs, believing that APIs would become an essential part of the conversation for developers. Though it wasn’t an easy road, last September Mashape raised $1.6 million […]
Posted on July 31st, 2012 by admin
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Some more developments for Referly, the Y-Combinator/500 Startups company co-founded by Twilio’s ex-head of marketing, Danielle Morrill. In what may be a hat-tip to the adept use of APIs at her former employer Twilio, today Referly is launching an API program that will let any online merchant create a referrals program powered by Referly’s pay-per-action marketplace. At […]
Posted on July 23rd, 2012 by admin
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Add one more company to the ranks of hopefuls that want to own the space where dongles and mobiles are used for card-based payments. mPowa, a UK-based startup, is launching in the U.S. today with a solution that looks a lot like Square, Here from PayPal, and others. But while Square and the rest currently target […]
Posted on June 29th, 2012 by admin
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Businesses using Google Apps should have an easier time managing complex tasks starting today with the launch of Kissflow from startup OrangeScape — it’s supposedly the first workflow-creator that’s “deeply integrated” with Apps. OrangeScape is pitching this as an alternative to using email and spreadsheets to track approvals and other tasks, which can turn into […]
Posted on June 27th, 2012 by admin
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We’re all a bit tired of the “X is Twilio for Y” brand of analogies (though it’s refreshing to see more of Twilio in this equation than Airbnb these days), but if ever there were an industry in need of some modern, standardizing APIs it would be education. Thankfully, Clever, a San Francisco-based startup and […]
Posted on June 27th, 2012 by admin
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Last year, we introduced you to MemSQL, a plucky young Y Combinator alum that was building technology that would let developers give their databases a Nitrous boost, while simplifying application development and maintenance. Founded by ex-Facebookers Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov, MemSQL raised $2.1 million in seed funding last July from an impressive roster of […]
Posted on June 25th, 2012 by admin
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