Now you can approve expenses, assign deadlines, check flights, and interact with other enterprise tools from inside Slack with its new Message Buttons. Slack is vying to become your always-open portal to work with the biggest update to its API since its December launch. For example, just type “/kayak flights from NYC to BOS on […]
Posted on June 26th, 2016 by admin
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Cybercrime is a rising problem — expected to cost organizations between $500 billion and $2 trillion by 2019. Now a startup that has built what it markets as an economical tool to fight cybercrime has raised some money to help it grow. vArmour — a startup that offers security solutions specifically aimed at enterprises that run services and […]
Posted on May 25th, 2016 by admin
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Internet performance management company Dyn has raised $50 million in Series B funding. Dyn was founded back in 2001, with its first product being a DNS service called DynDNS. Over time, it’s expanded into a broader suite of products that allow companies including Pfizer, Visa, Netflix and Twitter to monitor their online availability, security and speed. […]
Posted on May 12th, 2016 by admin
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It’s going to be a good Friday for those testing the latest releases of the Windows 10 operating system, as Microsoft is today rolling out a new build of its PC and mobile OS, which will allow users to try the newly announced Windows Ink experience for the first time. Windows Ink, announced at the Build 2016 […]
Posted on April 23rd, 2016 by admin
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IBM today unveiled some significant strides forward in its bid to be a major player in the world of online and cloud-based video services, three months after the company acquired live-streaming startup Ustream and formed a cloud video unit. AOL (which owns TechCrunch), the Canadian Broadcasting Company, Comic-Con and Mazda have all signed on for […]
Posted on April 19th, 2016 by admin
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If your site isn’t easy to use on mobile, Google penalizes it by ranking it lower on its mobile search results pages. To give publishers even more of an incentive to offer mobile-friendly pages, Google today announced that, in May, it will increase the importance of having a mobile page, and sites that are not […]
Posted on March 16th, 2016 by admin
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Pivotal, the company launched by EMC, VMware and GE to help companies in their quest for digital transformation, announced today that it was bringing in Eric Ries, the man behind the Lean Startup movement, as entrepreneur-in-residence. Ries’ methodology, which he defined in a 2011 book by the same name, has received praise from a who’s […]
Posted on January 29th, 2016 by admin
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As more businesses move their IT from on-premise solutions and into networked, cloud-based services, startups that are building products for them to do this are raking in yet more funding as they grow. NewVoiceMedia, a UK business that offers a solution for companies to run their customer contact centers and sales services in the cloud, has picked […]
Posted on January 28th, 2016 by admin
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Some more big news for the world of open source. MariaDB Corporation — the startup formerly known as SkySQL and building for-profit solutions on the SQL fork managed by the MariaDB foundation — has raised another $9 million in funding and announced a new CEO, Michael Howard, a veteran executive from the enterprise world. The funding […]
Posted on January 23rd, 2016 by admin
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Ransomware is more common than you think Ransomeware has grown in occurrence and sophistication in recent months. One of the best known forms, called CryptoWall, just had Version 4 released. It has a greatly improved ability to hide from antivirus software and firewalls. It is estimated that the distributors of CryptoWall made more than $25 […]
Posted on January 23rd, 2016 by admin
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