Wednesday December 25, 2024

VoloMetrix Raises $12M For Its People Analytics Service

 Seattle-based VoloMetrix today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series B round led by Split Rock Partners with participation from existing investor Shasta Ventures. Today’s round brings VoloMetrix’ total funding to $17 million. VoloMetrix Raises $12M For Its People Analytics Service The service allows businesses to better understand how their employees are spending… Read More Tweet This […]

Salesforce Hopes To Ride Analytics Wave With New Business Intelligence Service

 Salesforce.com will unveil a new analytics service tomorrow morning they have dubbed Wave. The product will be introduced by CEO Marc Benioff at the company’s Dreamforce customer conference in San Francisco, but according to a Salesforce spokesperson, it is already available in the AppExchange now. It was one of the worst kept secrets in technology as just […]

Salesforce Introduces Interactive Mobile Customer Service And Gives Core CRM A Makeover

 Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s conference extravaganza, is coming next week, and Salesforce has some big announcements ahead of their showcase starting with an update to their core CRM product, now known as Sales Cloud 1 and their customer service piece, now known as Service Cloud 1. All of their nifty branding aside, it is an attempt by […]

LogMeIn Buys YC-Backed Meldium For $15M To Add Single-Sign On To Its Service

 LogMeIn, a company that provides remote connectivity solutions to businesses and individuals, today is announcing an interesting acquisition that builds out the kinds of services it can offer and taps further into the wider shift to cloud-based services that we are seeing among enterprises and consumers: it has acquired Meldium, a Y-Combinator alum that specialises […]

Amazon Opens Up Its Enterprise Cloud Storage Service Zocalo To All

 Amazon today announced that it’s making Zocalo, its secure document storage and sharing service designed for enterprise use, generally available. The news comes, not coincidentally, on a day when cloud storage competitor Dropbox announced lowered pricing and storage increases for its Pro customers. Read More Tweet This Post

Microsoft Azure’s Cloud Services And Virtual Machines Experience “Service Interruption”

 Update 2: Here’s the latest from Azure, relating to its downtime: Starting at 18 Aug 2014 17:49 UTC, a small subset of customers are experiencing connectivity issues to some Azure Services which may include Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, Websites, Automation, Service Bus, Backup, Site Recovery, HDInsight, Mobile Services, StorSimple and possible other Azure Services in […]

Intuit Acquires ItDuzzit, An IFTTT-Style Service For Businesses To Connect Cloud Apps

 More acquisitions for Intuit as it continues to build out its cloud services platform for small and medium businesses. It has bought itDuzzit — a Chicago-based startup that provides tools for businesses to integrate different web and mobile apps with each other: think IFTTT for enterprises. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it looks […]

Intigua Raises $10M Series B Round For Its IT Management Automation Service

 Intigua, a company that specializes in giving enterprises an easier way to manage their IT operations in private and public clouds, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series B round led by Intel Capital. Existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Cedar Fund also participated in this round. In total, the company has […]

PayPal Expands Its Working Capital Service To UK, Switches From Loans To Cash Advances

 As payments platforms look for more ways to grow their margins and usage among businesses, they continue to push into a wider and deeper range of financial services. In one of the latest moves, eBay’s PayPal is expanding its Working Capital service to the UK. This is its first market for PayPal’s lending platform outside of […]

Disrupt Finalist Boomerang Commerce Raises $8.5M Series A Round For Its Price Optimization Service

 Boomerang Commerce, one of our six finalists at the latest Disrupt in New York, today announced that it has raised an $8.5 million Series A round. The round was led by Madrona Venture Group and Trinity Ventures. Both investors will also take seats on the company’s board. The company helps large e-commerce retailers set their […]