Rally Software has acquired Flowdock, a real-time collaboration service designed for developers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Flowdock received $650,000 in seed funding in October 2011 from investors that included IDG Ventures, CrunchFund and a number of individuals including Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos. Rally Software, a SaaS provider of application lifecycle management (ALM) […]
Posted on February 18th, 2013 by admin
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Sage Software, facing competition from a host of cloud providers, has sold off $100 million of its “non-CRM” assets to focus on its core ERP and accounting practices. According to IT Business in Canada, Sage has sold three products managed from Sage North America (Sage Act, Sage SalesLogix and the Sage Nonprofit Solutions product suite) […]
Posted on February 16th, 2013 by admin
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It can be such a headache trying to figure out what internal collaboration tools a company should use. Even at TechCrunch, where we have a few dozen writers, product and sales people, we’ve switched tools many times and have gripes with all of them. Imagine how it must be for a company with more than […]
Posted on February 14th, 2013 by admin
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A software company’s conference in Las Vegas for executives of hosting companies is not exactly where I’d expect to see a bunch of startups showing off what they do. But when the software company’s executive chairman of the board is also an investor in the startups, then the reason for their attendance becomes pretty clear. […]
Posted on February 7th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon today announced that it is acquiring Ivona Software, a Polish-based specialist in voice technologies that competes with Nuance and is already used in the Kindle Fire for services covering text-to-speech, voice commands and “Explore by Touch.” The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The move is significant for a couple of reasons. First, […]
Posted on January 24th, 2013 by admin
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Forrester Research is citing SaaS and data-driven smart apps as the major growth engines for the worldwide software market. The SaaS software market will increase 25 percent in 2013 to $59 billion, a 25 percent increase. In 2014, the market is expected to total $75 billion. Forrester uses the term “smart computing” to define apps […]
Posted on January 4th, 2013 by admin
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A botched software update to networking gear caused one of GitHub’s all-time worst outages last weekend, the second major disruption that customers of the popular social coding platform have suffered through in the past several weeks. In a blog post, Github’s Mark Imbriaco explained that the December 22 outage came during a software update to […]
Posted on December 27th, 2012 by admin
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RIM is officially launching BlackBerry 10 next month at a special event, with devices scheduled to go on sale a little after that, but select customers will get a chance to test the platform more extensively before that. The company announced today that certain government and enterprise customers will now begin beta testing BlackBerry Enterprise […]
Posted on December 18th, 2012 by admin
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U.K.-based IT software and services provider, Advanced Computer Software Group (Advanced) — which has clients in both public and private sectors in its home market and abroad — has announced the acquisition of education software provider Serco Learning for £7.25 million ($11.6 million) in cash, £6.25 million of which is payable to Serco Group and £1 million to […]
Posted on December 10th, 2012 by admin
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Free software leader Richard Stallman claims Ubuntu amounts to spyware with Amazon search integrated into the “dash” of its Unity interface. He is calling for developers to shun the open-source operating system. Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu. Stallman says the advertising search results amount to surveillance and argues that personal data is on Canonical’s servers. While Canonical […]
Posted on December 8th, 2012 by admin
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