AtTask, a company that vends a collaboration and workflow service for enterprise-level customers, has raised a fresh $38 million in capital, led by JMI Equity. The fund did see participation from prior investor Greenspring Associates in the round. The influx of capital rivals the firm’s prior raises. According to CrunchBase, AtTask had previously raised a total […]
Posted on February 9th, 2014 by admin
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Implisit has raised $3.3 million from Gemini Israel Ventures for its self-learning platform that mines CRM data to help sales people close more deals and cut manual data entry. The service connects email, calendars and the contact information in the CRM platform, said Co-Founder Gilad Raichshtain. It offers follow-up steps for a prospective deal, the best approach and other […]
Posted on February 2nd, 2014 by admin
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Organizations that want to run Apache Hadoop to analyze their big data without setting up a computer cluster can now procure the data processing framework as a service from a startup co-founded by the former CTO of Yahoo. Altiscale aims to reduce much of the administrative overhead usually required to run the open source software. […]
Posted on January 31st, 2014 by admin
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Another day, another free service goes to the dogs — or logs as the case may be. LogMeIn, a provider of remote connectivity services, 10 years ago made a name for itself by offering easy-to-use, free services to access other computers and files remotely — with the idea being the company could upsell them to […]
Posted on January 27th, 2014 by admin
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Another day, another free service goes to the dogs — or logs as the case may be. LogMeIn, a provider of remote connectivity services, ten years ago made a name for itself by offering easy-to-use, free services to access other computers and files remotely — with the idea being the company could upsell them to […]
Posted on January 21st, 2014 by admin
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Effektif wants to do for the enterprise what IFTTT has done for the consumer web – automate workflows through a cloud-based service, but one designed instead to integrate with business level tools and processes, like Salesforce, Oracle, Google Drive, Box and more. The solution, launching today, is aimed at teams looking to coordinate around shared […]
Posted on January 16th, 2014 by admin
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Stride, a bootstrapped CRM company out of Seattle, has been sold to Neil Patel and Hiten Shah, the longtime investor partners behind KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company, which targets freelancers and small businesses, is designed a bit differently than a CRM platform like Salesforce.com. Instead of managing contacts, its architecture is […]
Posted on December 19th, 2013 by admin
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Rainforest, a Y Combinator company, has developed an on-demand service that runs functional tests against a crowd of people through Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s crowdsourcing platform. The service is similar to how a customer can use Amazon Web Services to spin up and down instances. But in this case a customer makes an API request for people instead of […]
Posted on December 15th, 2013 by admin
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SugarSync, a gladiator in the long, hard battle that is hosted cloud storage, has decided to go mercenary. The company announced today that they will offer a “paid-only” service model, doing away with their free storage tiers. Current customers can still access their files and will be offered considerable discounts on the service – up […]
Posted on December 11th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon WorkSpaces, the company’s recently announced virtual desktops service and competitor with VMware, has now arrived on the iOS platform, or more specifically, on iPad. The new app will allow those who have access to the WorkSpaces Limited Preview currently in progress to use their iPad device as a cloud desktop of sorts, in order […]
Posted on December 4th, 2013 by admin
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