Saturday January 11, 2025

Online Storage Service Backblaze Now More Unlimited Than Unlimited

Online store and backup service provider Backblaze this morning released version 2.0 of its flagship product, bumping up the allowed file size for storage and backups up to ‘unlimited’ and bringing other enhancements to the table. The company has actually always provided unlimited storage – and “unthrottled bandwidth” – for five bucks a month, but […]

Backupify Snapshot Exits Beta, Adds More Features For Exporting Google Apps Accounts

Backupify, the startup that provides online data backup, archiving and export, is today releasing a new version of its Backupify Snapshot tool with additional features for Google Apps admins. The tool, for those unfamiliar, allows Google Apps administrators to extract and download the complete Google Apps account for a departing company employ and save the […]

Cloud Storage Company Box.net Launches Cross-Platform Sync; Salesforce Chatter Integration And More

At the company’s first customer conference today, cloud storage platform Box.net is revealing a number of new features and products. The company is debuting a cross-platform enterprise sync solution for both Mac and PC devices, additional security features as well as new social capabilities.   For background, Box, which has 7 million users and stores […]

CIO who are paid more that $1MM are not that rare

The federal securities laws require clear, concise and understandable disclosure about compensation paid to CEOs, CFOs and certain other high-ranking executive officers of public companies. Several types of documents that a company files with the Commission include information about the company’s executive compensation policies and practices. You can locate information about executive pay in: (1) […]

Vitrue Updates Social Media Management Platform For Brands With Deeper Analytics And More

Vitrue, a social media marketing company, is rolling out version 3.0 of its social media management platform for brands. New features include localization and enhanced analytics and metrics within one dashboard interface. As we’ve written in the past, Vitrue’s SaaS platform allows brands and marketing agencies to communicate with fans and consumers across Facebook, YouTube […]

SEC Watch: Cloud Storage Startup Box.net Raises $18.6 Million More

Box.net has raised $18.6 million out of a $35 million round according to an SEC filing. We’ve confirmed this with the company. This brings Box’s total funding to $96 million. Box, which has 6 million users and stores 300 million documents, is a cloud storage platform for the enterprise that comes with collaboration, social and […]

Trimit Summarizes Emails, Blog Posts, And More With A Shake Of Your iPhone

Attention spans are short these days, and some might even say the Web isn’t helping this phenomenon. Regardless, time is money, and people are ever-looking for more useful ways to maximize what time they have. Many have little tolerance (or time) for long-form digital content, and we’re seeing the proliferation of the “tl;dr” (too long; […]

PowerCloud Systems Spins Out Of PARC, Gets More Backers

Xerox’ Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) is spinning out PowerCloud Systems, the cloud-managed networking solutions provider that it has incubated through the Startup@PARC program since early 2008. PowerCloud has also gained more backing, with Walden Venture Capital and Javelin Venture Partners joining the line-up. PowerCloud offers cloud-based technology for OEM vendors that is designed to […]

Which of the two holds more importance in assessments? Skills or behavior?

Oscar Hernandes of HireLabs asked me to participate in a video blogging effort in which HireLabs asked a number of people in the recruiting industries to discuss whether they felt that skills or behavior hold more importance in employment assessments. I believe that some employers for some positions such as information technology jobs feel that […]

As The Productivity Suite Wars Heat Up, Microsoft’s Live@edu Adds More Partner Schools

The war to win over educational institutions for the cloud is getting heated. Productivity suite rivals Microsoft and Google are battling it out to see who can be the go-to provider for a cloud-based email platform for universities and colleges across the U.S. Google Apps, which currently has 8 million users, is slightly behind Microsoft’s […]