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Nasuni Raises $15M in Funding, Growing the Public Cloud
Today cloud storage start-up Nasuni announced it has secured $15 million in Series B funding, raising its total funding $23 million for the two rounds. This round was led by early-stage venture capital firm Flybridge Capital Partners, with participation from North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. “The company has raised $23 million over two ...
Akamai Protecting Retail Cloud against Holiday Season Hacks
Cloud web content and media optimizer Akamai today released a holiday-driven spin in which it detailed its system, and how some of its high-profile retail clients have sustained some ‘holiday-spirited’ cyber attacks. “Based on industry estimates (2), 2010 holiday sales will represent nearly 24% of an average retailer’s total online sales. Combining this figure with ...
RIM Q3 Sales Report: 40% Growth and Goals for a Global Future
According to Research In Motion’s Q3 Sales Report released yesterday, the company has sold 40% more handsets than in last year’s Q3, as this figure equals 14.2 million BB devices shipped this quarter. RIM’s total revenue was an impressive $5.5 billion. “A breakdown of the sales figures, however, reiterates that RIM is losing ground in ...
Dropbox: Version 1.0 Enhancing the Personal Cloud
Today cloud file management solutions provider Dropbox announced in its blog the launch of Dropbox 1.0. Version 1.0 carries some serious improvements including a 20% reduced download sized for Mac users, extended attribute sync including resource forks as well as thorough bug fixes and more: “We completely re-architected the client-side sync engine to optimize the ...
Sibblingz for Bing as Users Search for Play Time
After Microsoft struck a deal with Sibblingz’s sister company CrowdStar recently, the cross-platform app launching framework provider announced it can put social games inside the Bing search engine. This is a very innovative approach to incorporate social gaming, but it’s only the latest of Bing’s efforts to win over Google users by improving portal appeal ...
Apple Mac App Store Due to Open Jan. 6th
Apple’s much anticipated Mac App Store as downloadable software will be available in a few short weeks, launching Jan. 6. The App Store helped to seriously drive sales for the iPhone and iPod, meaning that while the Mac App Store may take some time to match the 300K mobile apps Apple carries out, it has ...
Yahoo Shutting Down Old Investments Amidst Holiday Season Layoffs
Yahoo is planning to shut down 8 products and merge others. EVP of Americas Ross Levinsohn and Chief Product Officer Blake Irving officially announced this news and the products due to shut down include MyBlogLog, Yahoo Picks, AltaVista, Yahoo Bookmarks, Yahoo Buzz and Delicious as well as Yahoo’s traffic APIs. As reported on AllThingsD, “The ...
Browser Releases: iPad Skyfire Version, Updated Opera 11
Today we’ve seen two notable browser releases. The first one highlighted is a release of Skyfire for the iPad. The Flash-capable mobile browser converts Flash to HTML5 which is supported by the iPhone and iPad, as this is the primary reason the browser gained so much success early on. “To users, this means a slight ...
Bing Rolls Out Fall Updates
Microsoft’s senior VP of online services Satya Nadella today announced in a blog post today that the company will be rolling out some updates for Bing throughout the next few weeks. The post highlights 4 main bulletins, as these provide the latest of updates the search engine and its users had seen lately. “Our focus ...
Rackspace Acquires Cloud Management, Monitoring Company Cloudkick
Rackspace has acquired the San Francisco-based Cloudkick, a cloud management and monitoring company. The sum of the acquisition was not disclosed, but the acquisition of the 1500-client and 1 million supported servers worth company is an attempt by Rackspace to delve further into cloud management. “Today, Rackspace is a hosting company that offers cloud services. ...
