Friday January 10, 2025

Asana Brings Hardcore Task Management With Lightweight Feel To Redesigned iOS App

Asana, the high-profile productivity startup that’s trying to redesign the workplace around tasks (instead of email), has a new iOS app out. It’s worth a closer look, even if you really love email. The biggest improvement today is a native task creation and editing interface, that includes features you’ll find on the web version: adding […]

AtTask Raises $13 Million For Software as a Service That Combines Social Tech With Traditional Project Management

Utah-based AtTask has raised $13 million for its collaborative work management software as a service (SaaS) according to documents filed with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). Names of the investors were not disclosed. AtTask has previously raised $7 million from OpenView Partners. It’s unclear at this point if this new $13 million investment is a Series B […]

Do.com Adds Contacts and Deal Tracking For Facebook Style Task Management

Salesforce.com has added contacts, deal tracking and public APIs to its do.com platform for task management. Initially, Salesforce.com is adding the capability to integrate Facebook and Google contacts. It will soon after add Twitter and Salesforce.com. The deal management capability adds to the do.com lightweight CRM environment. Do.com is also opening its APIs for integration into […]

Acunote: YC Alum Takes On Project Management With A Real-Time, Gmail-Like Interface

“On time and under budget” is manna from heaven for project managers the world over, but unfortunately for most of them, those working on the projects and those commissioning them, it’s not often the case. Now, a Y Combinator alum (Winter 2011 class) called Acunote is launching a new project management system that wants to […]

Autodesk Acquires Vela Systems, Aims To Bring Construction Management Systems To Tablets

Autodesk took to the wires this morning to announce its acquisition of a long-standing partner, Vela Systems, which is described in the announcement as “a provider of cloud and mobile field management software for the construction industry.” It’s Autodesk’s hope that this move will better equip the company, and the whole construction industry for that […]

Clarizen Raises Another $12M For Project Management

Clarizen, a company offering online project management tools, has raised $12 million in Series E funding. The round was led by Vintage Partners, with past backers Benchmark Capital, Carmel Ventures, DAG Ventures, and Opus Capital also investing. Clarizen has now been raised a total of $49 million, most recently announcing a $12 million round about […]

BYOD Without Big Brother: Mobilisafe Debuts Real-Time Mobile Risk Management Solution

Seattle-based Mobilisafe, a mobile security startup backed by $1.2 million in funding from Madrona Venture Group, Trilogy Equity Partnership and T-Venture, is exiting its private beta program and launching publicly today. The company’s cloud-based Mobile Risk Management (MRM) solution aims to help companies deal with the ever-increasing number of personal devices on corporate networks, but takes things a step […]

Atlassian Launches A Marketplace For Project Management Add-Ons

Atlassian, the Australian company that makes popular software project management tools JIRA and Confluence, has opened a marketplace where customers can download and buy add-ons for the company’s apps. Usually, the launch of a marketplace or app store signals a company’s broader platform ambitions, but Atlassian President Jay Simons says the platform approach has been […]

Patch management and the CIOs role

Keeping all of an organization’s endpoints patched and up-to-date is crucial to staying ahead of the latest exploits and vulnerabilities. Patch management typically automates the repetitive processes of maintaining current vulnerability information, assessing vulnerabilities relevant to an organization’s different software and hardware, downloading the appropriate patch executables, remediating endpoint vulnerabilities, and verifying successful patch deployment. […]

BetterCloud Nabs $2.2M From Angels To Bring Better Management & Security To Google Apps

About six years ago, Google launched Apps for Your Domain, which, for the first time, wrapped its suite of emerging cloud products under one umbrella — as a service for businesses and the enterprise. The service combined Gmail, Google Talk, GCal, and Google Page Creator, offering the suite to businesses, non-profits, and schools for free, […]