Nexmo has raised $3 million from Intel Capital for its mobile messaging API, carrier grade service. Also participating were NHN Investment Corporation and Initial Capital. Nexmo, founded in 2010, raised $500,000 in seed capital at the beginning of last year. Nexmo is one of a new generation of companies that are disrupting the telco market. […]
Posted on February 24th, 2013 by admin
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Y Combinator-backed Vimessa launched in late 2011 with a free video voicemail app for the iPhone that allowed users to send high-def video messages to any cell number or email address. The idea was to make video messaging work on any mobile device or desktop. But, despite the early buzz around the product, rules are […]
Posted on February 23rd, 2013 by admin
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Intel will not be left out of the party when it comes to being central in the mobile app ecosystem. The company today acquired a set of HTML5 development tools, originally created by appMobi and used by some 150,000 developers, and has hired staff from appMobi that worked on the product to continue to maintain […]
Posted on February 22nd, 2013 by admin
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Dropbox for Teams has a new set of features that gives IT deep visibility and control over the way both individuals and groups use the service. The new features show how Dropbox is entering a new chapter in its evolution, pointing to a future where a significant aspect of its business will focus on the […]
Posted on February 12th, 2013 by admin
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Here’s the cloud to Nokia’s silver lining statement the other day of better than expected handset sales: it is cutting IT 300 jobs, and outsourcing 850 more, with Indian outsourcing giants HCL and Tata Consultancy Services picking up the reigns for the latter. The news was announced this morning by the company as it gears […]
Posted on January 17th, 2013 by admin
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15Five, a startup that offers a cloud-based platform for employees to provide weekly feedback about their progress — and for CEOs and other managers to be able to read all of it quickly, is today announcing that it has raised its first VC money, a seed round of $1 million from a list of investors […]
Posted on January 16th, 2013 by admin
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Windows Azure has added eight new features, including new mobile services, website scaling, and data sync. Vice President Scott Guthrie detailed the new features on his blog. Here are some of the more noteworthy improvements: Mobile Services: Better capability to schedule background jobs so the user experience doesn’t get disrupted. Jobs can be scheduled on […]
Posted on December 22nd, 2012 by admin
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Windows Azure Mobile Services has added push notification for developers so they can fire off updates that may include sounds, badges or SMS messages. Scott Guthrie, a corporate vice president in the Microsoft Tools and Servers group, writes that the new push notification , using Apple Push Notification Services (APNS), is one of a series of updates […]
Posted on December 6th, 2012 by admin
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The era of connected data services continues to unfold with the advent of emerging platforms such as Presentz, an open-source slide show offering for people to mashup videos, images and other media from YouTube, Vimeo, SlideShare and other providers. The service syncs video with a slide deck so people can follow a recorded conference talk […]
Posted on November 23rd, 2012 by admin
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Another dispatch from the post-PC era: Forrester’s latest report on mobile adoption in the enterprise found that 66% of employees now use two or more devices every day, including desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets. A smaller, but notable 12% percent said they now use tablets at work. That’s still far fewer than the 50% who […]
Posted on October 14th, 2012 by admin
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