CopyTele, a “patent enforcement entity” based in New York, has filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft in connection with its Skype IP calling and messaging service, now used by 280 million people every month. The two patents in question come from Secure Web Conference Corporation, a subsidiary of publicly-traded CopyTele. They are 6,856,686 B2 […]
Posted on May 2nd, 2013 by admin
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Tango Card, the Seattle-based startup that aggregates digital gift card services from dozens of companies like Amazon, Nike, Target, iTunes, charities and more, has raised $4.125 million in a Series B round of financing led by Allegro Venture Partners. Floodgate, Swan and Legend Ventures, and existing investors Western Technology Investments and Innovation Endeavors, the early-stage […]
Posted on April 30th, 2013 by admin
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We’re hearing from a source familiar with deliberations that Intel is buying Mashery for more than $180 million, in a move that shows how the chipmaker is slowly becoming both a hardware and a software company. ReadWrite had ballparked the acquisition price at 2-3x the company’s last reported valuation of $60 million. ReadWrite, which first broke the news […]
Posted on April 18th, 2013 by admin
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Atlassian is getting more competitive with social collaboration companies like Jive Software with a new offering thst extends its social collaboration service beyond its core users. The new service, called Confluence Blueprints, extends the Confluence platform, the company’s collaborative environment for developers. The blueprints are designed to create and share work within the Confluence environment. Atlassian […]
Posted on March 31st, 2013 by admin
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I’m at Citrix corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., for the presentations by the nine members of the second class of the Alchemist Accelerator group. It’s quite an eclectic class for the B2B accelerator. The Alchemist Group is a new, venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage enterprise startups. Backers include Cisco Systems, […]
Posted on March 30th, 2013 by admin
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Riding the consumerisation of IT trend that’s blowing the cobwebs off enterprise software, Belgian startup Showpad – which makes iPad software for sales teams — has raised a $2 million Series A funding round from early stage European VC firm, Hummingbird Ventures. Showpad’s cloud platform hosts sales content uploaded by sales staff and administrators, which can then be accessed […]
Posted on March 29th, 2013 by admin
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I’m at Citrix corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., for the presentations by the nine members of the second class of the Alchemist Accelerator group. It’s quite an eclectic class for the B2B accelerator. The Alchemist Group is a new, venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage enterprise startups. Backers include Cisco Systems, […]
Posted on March 27th, 2013 by admin
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Beyond the edge of SXSW last week, the ESRI team camped out in an old brick firehouse with the interior of an Italian palace. It felt like the home of an eccentric Texas aristocrat, alone in his mansion, dripping with rich fabrics, chandeliers and the odd sense of a New York loft. And it was […]
Posted on March 18th, 2013 by admin
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Yammer CEO and Founder David Sacks said to me in an interview this past weekend that SXSW is showing that suddenly enterprise technology is sexy. Sorry, I don’t buy it. The enterprise is as sexy as a humming rack of servers. That may be sexy to some, but it sure doesn’t match the allure of […]
Posted on March 12th, 2013 by admin
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Get ready for some more M&A activity in the real estate sector. This morning, the real estate search engine Trulia announced that it is looking to raise up to $100.3 million $150 million in a follow-on offering, with “some or all of such net proceeds to acquire or invest in complementary businesses, products, services, technologies, or other […]
Posted on March 11th, 2013 by admin
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