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Supercell Secures $12M for Social Games of the Future
Supercell, a Finish game developer focused on broad scope browser-based social games, has raised $12 million from Accel Partners. Accel is a major tech industry investment firm, and the round represents significant step forwarded for the start-up, founded in June of last year. Existing investors London Venture Partners and Klaas Kersting, founder of German browser-game ...
SAP is Raising the Revenue Bar with Mobile and Big Data Analytics
Amidst HP’s software transformation under head Leo Apotheker, the former SAP CEO, the German software maker is also adoption a new strategy. Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe have set the company a goal of achieving $28 billion sales in 2015 from mobile and data analytics offering. SAP made a big push in this ...
Millennial Media Acquires Condaptive Amidst Microsoft Buyout Rumors
Millennial Media, likely the largest remaining independent mobile ad network out there, is bulking up towards its plans for an initial public offering. The company made several moves as a part of this plan, the most recent being the acquisition of Condaptive, a startup that provides location-based mobile marketing solutions. The company analyzes user data ...
IPO Season in Full Swing: From Zynga to Yandex
Right after professional social network LinkedIn doubled its stock on launch day of its IPO, social gaming giant Zynga may be next. Rumor has it that the company currently valuated at $10 billion could file for a public offering with the SEC this week or next week the latest, according to sources. From Reuters: “Zynga ...
Fusion-io Valuation Soars to $1BN with IPO Update
Flash storage solutions maker and current market leader Fusion-io has updated its IPO filing with the SEC. The company revealed it plans on selling its stock for between $13 to $15 per share, meaning its valuation will exceed the $1 billion mark, and may even come close to $1.2 billion. This would also increase the ...
Cloudera Reach Spreads, Open Clouds on the Rise
RainStor, a provider of online data retention solutions, released RainStor 4.5 for Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop. This combo, according to the company, can lead to great increases in efficient from more aspects than one, including a physical footprint at least 97 percent smaller when used to retain and access data on Hadoop Distributed File ...
T-Mobile Invests in 4G with More Speed and New Plans
T-Mobile, the operator amidst the process of being acquired by AT&T, is doubling the speed of its 4G networks to 42Mbps this month. This increase will affect 55 markets in the U.S, including Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Pittsburg and others. Support for this speed in Las Vegas, New York and Orlando ...
DotCloud Acquires Duostack, Introduces MongoDB Support
San Francisco-based PaaS provider DotCloud has acquired Duostack, another San Francisco PaaS provider, for an undisclosed sum. Duostack is a start-up which offers support for the non-SQL MongoDB database as part of its offering – a feature that will be integrated with DotCloud’s own product. Duostack founder and CEO David Chen will join DotCloud. From ...
Print Media Catches up with Big Data
Print media is gradually losing market share to online publications, and Mansueto Ventures, the publisher who operates Inc. magazine and Fast Company, is the latest major player in the print industry to have recognized this trend. The company has announced a major investment in the online versions of the magazines, and has chosen Red Aril’s ...
Citrix Extends VDI Portfolio with Kaviza Acquisitions
Virtualization solutions vendor Citrix Systems announced it has acquired Kaviza, a maker of a virtual desktop environment software for SMBs, for an undisclosed sum. Kaviza’s “VDI-in-a-Box” product represents a major milestone for Citrix, which has effectively extended its Citrix XenDesktop enterprise-purposed VDI product line with an offering targeting the small to medium businesses audience. “The ...