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Fuse raises $12M to let mobile developers work in real-time
Every mobile developer aims to provide fast response times for users, but they often don’t enjoy the same luxury in their own work, especially when it comes to interface design. Norway’s FuseTools SA believes the industry is due for a change. The startup’s push today won the support of Nordic investment firms Northzone and Alliance ...
TripActions raises $14.6M to apply big data to business travel
Now that companies are embracing a data-centric approach to helping their field personnel choose driving routes, some are already taking the next logical step: applying the same strategy to business travel. Much of the credit for this trend goes to the Menlo Park-based TripActions Inc., which today raised $14.6 million in funding. The investment was ...
Akamai launches remote access service to disrupt virtual private networks
As the content delivery market becomes more and more crowded, Akamai Technologies Inc. is increasingly looking elsewhere for growth opportunities. As part of the effort, the Internet giant today launched a cloud-based remote access service that promises to help companies make internal applications more easily reachable. It targets the growing number of people who perform ...
Google Voice gets a much-needed revamp
Several years after the last major update to Google Voice, it appears that the millions of users who rely on the service have finally managed to draw some attention to themselves. Google today released new web and mobile versions of the app that aim to up the ante against its numerous rivals in the voice-over-IP market. ...
Oracle axes 450 workers at its struggling hardware business
Oracle Corp. as a whole may be adjusting to the industry shift towards cloud computing at a brisk pace, but its traditional hardware business is falling behind. The latest sign of the group’s troubles came on Friday after the San Jose Mercury News reported that the database giant has laid off about 450 employees from its ...
IBM acquires partner Agile 3 Solutions to boost cybersecurity lineup
It looks like cybersecurity will continue to remain a central focus for IBM Corp. this year, as the enterprise technology giant today revealed that it’s acquiring Agile 3 Solutions LLC, a San Francisco-based partner focused on helping organizations fight privacy risks. The company’s flagship offering is a compliance tracking platform to ease the identification and ...
Deutsche Telekom backs $45M funding round for networking startup Aryaka
Two weeks after Germany’s Deutsche Telekom AG led a funding round into sensory tracking startup Roambee Corp., it’s buying a stake in another promising Silicon Valley startup. The telecommunications giant today was named among the contributors to a $45 million investment raised by Aryaka Networks Inc., a provider of Internet traffic optimization services. Its main focus ...
Google appoints a new channel head as part of its enterprise cloud push
The latest management shift at Google could herald a major evolution of its cloud computing strategy. CRN, an outlet geared toward technology product resellers, reported on Thursday that the search giant has tapped Bertrand Yansouni (pictured) as its new head of global channel operations. The appointment comes just three months after Google hired the executive ...
At last, LinkedIn redesigns its desktop site from the ground up
Starting from today, users who visit LinkedIn Inc.’s desktop site will see a much different social network than they knew until now. The recently minted Microsoft Corp. subsidiary today rolled out a brand new design that promises to provide a smoother browsing experience. At the core of the interface is a sleek navigation bar that ...
Oracle buys API startup Apiary to bolster its public cloud
Making another strategic advance in the public cloud, Oracle Corp. today acquired Apiary Inc., a San Francisco-based startup focused on easing the creation of application programming interfaces. The move comes two days after Oracle announced a major expansion for its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. Apiary’s flagship APIFlow service enables developers to easily put together an API for a project ...