Parents today can be overwhelmed when trying to keep up with their child’s online activity, and often fail to spot troubling behavior like bullying, threats, sexting, and even possible mental health issues. A new app called VISR, which launched publicly just in time for back-to-school, has now closed on a million in funding to help alert parents to safety issues involving their… Read More
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IBM could have a shopping problem. It’s become the company that can’t say no as it scoops up properties to prop up its cloud strategy. Last week it was The Weather Company. Last month it was Cleversafe and today it was cloud brokerage firm, Gravitant. With Gravitant, it gets cloud brokerage, which helps companies manage cloud purchases across multiple suppliers. IBM plans to fold… Read More
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Twitter’s making changes and nothing is sacred. Today’s change, while not as dramatic as making tweets editable or more than 140 characters, is definitely something that you’ll notice. The stars are out. So is the word they represent…”favorite.” In? Hearts. And the word “like.” Vine’s getting hearts, too, so the smiley faces are out.… Read More
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Some believe that email is bloated and dying, but by implementing advances from its machine learning and AI teams, Google has been using Inbox — its Gmail-based mobile email client — as a way to raise the bar on how to improve the experience and make it once again into a productive place to communicate with people. Today, the company is taking the wraps off its latest… Read More
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Last month, Google made a bold move to win over more business customers using cloud-based apps by making Google Apps for Work free for any company that is still under contract with a rival like Microsoft of Amazon. Today, Google — which now has 2 million paying businesses using Google Apps for Work (5 million+ if you include free users) — is raising its enterprise game again. Read More
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Chef has been helping companies configure, manage and automate their software and infrastructure for some time. Today it made several announcements to bring that same level of automation to compliance. For starters, the company announced that it has acquired VulcanoSec, a German compliance and security firm. Chef actually acquired the company last summer, but is making the purchase official… Read More
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Well here’s a blockbuster acquisition for you. Gaming mothership Activision Blizzard has entered into an agreement to acquire King.com, maker of the wildly popular game Candy Crush and probably other games that I have nor ever will play. Mobile. Games. It’s all of the hot things. Read More
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EBay today finalized the sale of its previously announced eBay Enterprise business. As part of this deal, Zeta Interactive, the big data-driven marketing firm co-founded by David Steinberg and former Apple and Pepsi-Cola CEO John Sculley, today announced that it has acquired the CRM division of eBay Enterprise. Read More
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Here’s one way that Thrillist Media Group is spending the $54 million that it raised earlier this year: It’s adding three new sections to its website, one for entertainment, one for health and one for sex and dating.
Naturally, the company is supporting this expansion with some new hires. John Sellers, former senior editor at New York Magazine’s Vulture, will run the… Read More
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The idea that the average consumer i.e. a non “high net-worth individual” could invest in a small equity round has been in the works since June but a new rule released last week now brings the US closer to true equity crowdfunding. You can check out the entire release here but, in general, it opens the door to a new form of investment. Companies will be able to raise a maximum of… Read More
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