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Box Closes $81M Round, Biggest Round to Date
Box.net, a cloud storage provider, announced it’s closed a massive $81 billion round of funding. New investors Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates chipped in, alongside existing backers Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth. “Even though the funding was announced in two stages–an $18.6 million D-1 round from insiders in ...
Bottleneck Woes in Virtualization: Infographic
Tintri, a provider of a virtualization optimized storage system, released an infographic entitled “Storage Holds Back Virtualization Deployments,” in which it laid out the obstacles and demands from their VM customers. In 2011, thirty-six percent of companies are more than 75 percent virtualized, and that number is expected to grow to 65 percent by the ...
Nodeable Socializes your Servers
Nodeable, a startup that raised $2 million from True Ventures, Crosslink Capital, and Barton Asset Management, announced its “collaborative systems management tool for the cloud.” The service aims to make the IT department’s day easier by wrapping up technical lingo and code with a social layer that can be compared with Facebook and Twitter streams and language. ...
Facebook Appeals to Gamers and Developers with New iPad App
Facebook launched the first version of its iPad app this week, which is available immediately via the App Store. It also extended its Facebook Platform to its iOS apps and mobile site, allowing developers to reach the 350 million users that access the social media site via these channels every month according to the company. ...
SAP Ventures Puts $10M in One97
SAP Ventures, the software maker’s VC arm, invested $10 million in One97 Communications, an India-based company that provides services to telcos and mobile users. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder and current head of the company said One97 will use the capital to expand its business in Asia and Africa, boost R&D and hire new talent. ...
QLogic Invests in Partner Ecosystem, Margins
Networking solutions maker QLogic is on a steady growth track, and one way the company is maintaining this momentum is by expanding its partner ecosystem. SAN encryption provider Bloombase Technologies is the latest name on that list, now that it announced its Spitfire Encryption Security Server passed the QLogic Storage Networking Interoperability testing. “The comprehensive ...
Yammer’s New Desktop Version Gets More Social
Yammer upgrades the desktop version of its enterprise sharing and collaboration software, which now offers six new features. Most of the changes are designed to enhance the UI and the overall use experience. A group directory has been added so that users can navigate groups, including suggested ones, and access Yammer’s homepage in order to ...
Microsoft Patches OS, Fleshes Out Cloud
Microsoft has been busy this month with a wide variety of deals ranging from patching Windows, to closing an $8.5 billion acquisition. The October Patch Tuesday fixes include several significant ones, including partially a rumored update to the Malicious Software Removal Tool which will prevent Microsoft Security Essentials and Forefront from flagging Chrome as malicious ...
Microsoft Anxious for Skype Integration as Acquisition Finalizes
Microsoft closed off the acquisition of VoIP service provider Skype for a massive $8.5 million – the software maker’s biggest acquisition to date. Microsoft got the green light from the FTC in June, and now the European Commission also gave its approval. Skype head Tony Bates will become president of the Microsoft Skype Division, and will ...
RIM’s $100M Buy amidst Takeover Talk
Canadian phonemaker RIM can be compared to Nokia, which failed to adapt to the market trends in time and consequently got itself in some financial turmoil. The former however is still in better shape in some regards, and even as the rumor mull churns that it may become an acquisition itself, RIM buys out NewBay for ...