How could a site for explaining rap lyrics make good on its $15 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz? Because it’s also a collaborative text-annotation platform that enterprises are asking for. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the Rap Genius founders told me they plan to monetize by building installation of their site for big companies and […]
Posted on May 1st, 2013 by admin
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Last week, Jive Software‘s Oudi Antebi came by the house to show off the company’s new platform. I don’t usually have people stop by for briefings but he was insistent, so I agreed. I had to meet this guy willing to come out to my house even if I was taking double shots of Nyquil. […]
Posted on April 24th, 2013 by admin
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Despite its potential, the jury is arguably still out on the best use-case for Augmented Reality. But one startup, Augment, thinks it has the answer: helping to sell products by letting customers see what they might look like in the real world. A graduate of the Paris-based accelerator Le Camping, today the company is announcing […]
Posted on April 17th, 2013 by admin
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GitHub has open-sourced “Boxen,” an automated way to manage newly unboxed Macs for developers. The one-command automation tool promises that a developer can be hacking on GitHub within 30 minutes. The tool follows a trend to offer developer-ready laptops. Dell has developed a laptop built specifically for developers called Project Sputnik. The laptop is now […]
Posted on February 16th, 2013 by admin
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Kera, a Toronto-based startup set to revolutionize the software product demo space with guided tutorials that are interactive and live on a site, instead of in a static video, has just launched new subtitle and captioning features, as well as basic analytics to help websites using its tech track user participation. This iteration on the […]
Posted on February 10th, 2013 by admin
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The Vagrant open-source project has morphed into a startup, backed by Hashicorp, a new startup that will further build out the tool designed to manage the complexities of modern development within a virtual environment. Hashicorp’s founder, Mitchell Hashimoto, is the co-creator of Vagrant, which he has managed since 2010. He said in an interview the traction […]
Posted on November 28th, 2012 by admin
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Mobile platform company Appcelerator has acquired Nodeable, a company offering big data analytics processing for Hadoop. Once a startup buidling a “Twitter for machines” – a term used to describe its system for aggregating systems data across sources – Nodeable recently refocused its efforts this summer on StreamReduce, a cloud-hosted, real-time data analytics product. The […]
Posted on November 11th, 2012 by admin
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Netflix has open sourced ”Chaos Monkey,” its tool designed to purposely cause failure in order to increase the resiliency of an application in Amazon Web Services (AWS.) It’s a timely move as AWS has had its fair share of outages. With tools like Chaos Monkey, companies can be better prepared when a cloud infrastructure has a […]
Posted on August 6th, 2012 by admin
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It’s always interesting to see when a company builds a product on the side purely to scratch its own itch, and then decides that said product has the making of a startup in itself. That appears to be the case with daPulse which, broadly speaking, plays in the enterprise social network space, and spun out […]
Posted on August 4th, 2012 by admin
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Launching its public beta in the fall of last year, 300milligrams (also known as “300.mg,”) set out to build a “priority inbox for team conversations.” The startup was one of the 34 teams in 500 Startups’ Fall 2011 batch, and, after graduating in January, spent the first half of this year iterating, trying to find […]
Posted on June 9th, 2012 by admin
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