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EMC Confirms Layoffs As Cost-Cutting Measures Begin Ahead Of Dell Acquisition
Some EMC employees got some harsh news this week as anticipated layoffs have begun at the Massachusetts company. A company spokesperson confirmed the news, but declined to offer a specific number of affected employees. CRN first reported the news. At the end of last month EMC telegraphed the move when it filed paperwork with The SEC. At the time, the company indicated that it would… Read More
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MyMusicTaste, A Crowdsourcing Platform For Concerts, Raises $10M Series A
MyMusicTaste, a Seoul-based startup that gauges fan interest to help figure out where to plan concerts, plans to expand throughout Asia after landing a $10 million Series A led by Softbank Ventures Korea. IBM Sells Salary.com Compensation Business To The Original Founding Team
This week at CES, IBM unveiled a some new Watson partnerships that underscore its push into big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. But at the same time, the company has quietly divested itself of an older asset. Today it was announced that Salary.com — a portal for people to find and compare remuneration data across lots of different industries, as well as look for… Read More
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Amazon’s Email And Calendaring Service, Amazon WorkMail, Exits Preview
Amazon this week took its enterprise-aimed email and calendaring service called WorkMail out of preview mode. The product, which first debuted a year ago, is based on Amazon Web Services and is meant to sub in for legacy solutions, like Microsoft Exchange. However, instead of competing with client software like Microsoft Outlook, WorkMail integrates with it, as it does with as with Apple Mail,… Read More
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Google SEC Paperwork Reveals It Paid Over $380 Million For Bebop
At the end of November, Google announced it was buying bebop, a cloud platform startup founded by former VMware CEO and co-founder Diane Greene. Today, the company filed paperwork with the SEC revealing the purchase price: $380,241,352 to be precise. In addition, the paperwork revealed that Greene’s portion of the sale, 7,244,150 shares of bebop stock was exchanged for 200,729 shares… Read More
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Partnerships And Interoperability Matter Most In Cloud-Mobile World
Once upon a time, companies built huge proprietary systems to track their customer information, content, accounting, business intelligence and every other business function you can name. These were expensive, monolithic systems that took years to implement and compatibility between systems was not a huge priority. Usually the technology choices had a lot more to do with the needs of IT than… Read More
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Slack Promotes Former Twitter Boss April Underwood To VP Of Product
Slack’s rocket ship has a new co-pilot. April Underwood, Slack’s former head of platform who just launched its App Directory and Slack Fund, has leveled up to become the startup’s VP of Product. Underwood joined Slack in June after nearly five years at Twitter where she was a Director of Product. Putting the head of platform in charge of the entire product shows… Read More
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Slack’s New TV Commercial Is Adorable And Effective
If you’re in the tech world, then you know exactly what Slack is and does. As you eke outside of our little techosphere, however, you might get some puzzled faces when you talk about your favorite work communication tool. The Freelancer Generation: Why Startups And Enterprises Need To Pay Attention
Gone are the days of the 40-hour work week that kept us at work eight hours a day. I find that most startup founders or business owners in Silicon Valley work 50-60 hours a week. Today, freelancing is becoming the accepted norm of the startup world. As more startups are starting to use the millions of freelancers, it’s driving more and more people to join the freelancer generation. Read More
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Salesforce Grabs Quote To Cash Vendor SteelBrick for $360 Million
They say there’s not supposed to be much M&A action the week of Christmas, but Salesforce apparently didn’t get the memo, picking up quote-to-cash vendor SteelBrick today for $360 million. According to the 8-K form Salesforce filed with the SEC, the deal is for $360 million in stock, not including the company’s investment in SteelBrick or the $60 million it has in… Read More
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