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Experian Sells Hitwise To Connexity, Simmons To Connexity Owner Symphony For Up To $52M
Some more chopping, changing and consolidation in the worlds of traffic analysis and fraud protection. Today it was announced that Experian, one of the world’s biggest credit ratings agencies, is selling off its two well-known analytics divisions in a $51.5 million deal. Hitwise, the traffic measurement company, is being sold to Connexity; and Simmons, which publishes the National… Read More
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Cloudyn Cloud Monitoring Service Catches $11 Million Investment
Cloudyn, a service for monitoring and optimizing cloud usage across multiple vendors, announced an $11 million Series B investment today. The round was led by Carmel Ventures with participation of previous investors Titanium Investments and RDSeed. Today’s investment brings the total to $16.5 million. Cloudyn provides an interesting tangential service for enterprise cloud consumers.… Read More
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Adobe’s Record Revenue Proves Successful Business Transformation Is Possible
As we watch organizations like IBM, HP and EMC struggle to transform, Adobe is an interesting contrasting case. It went from selling boxed software to a cloud subscription model in shorter order, and judging from its financial report that came out last week, it’s done quite well making that leap. First, let’s have a look at the numbers. Adobe reported a record $1.31 billion… Read More
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Dell-EMC Deal All Systems Go As ‘Go Shop’ Provision Expires
When EMC and Dell announced their $67 billion deal in October, there was an interesting provision in the agreement — language that allowed EMC to continue shopping for a better deal. This ‘Go Shop’ clause expired last night.
The likelihood that anyone was ever going to step up and give EMC more than the $67 billion it negotiated with Dell was always remote at best, and the… Read More
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Seerene Raises $5M To Help IT Departments Monitor Software Performance
Seerene, an analytics platform that helps companies see how their other software is performing, has raised $5 million in seed funding and opened an office in Hong Kong, its first in Asia. The round was led by Earlybird Venture Capital and will support Seerene’s international growth. Read More
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CultureIQ Raises $3M To Help Companies Improve Their Culture
CultureIQ announced today that it has raised $3 million in seed funding. Founded by former SecondMarket CFO Greg Besner, the New York City-based startup offers what it calls “culture management software.” That includes tools for surveying employees and analyzing the results in real-time, as well as a “culture strategy group” that helps customers explore programs… Read More
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Esper Helps Assistants Manage Their Bosses’ Time
We’ve seen startups try to replace or automate the work of executive assistants, but Esper is trying to do something different — it aims to help those assistants make smarter decisions.
Esper CEO Andrew Lee was previously founder at JamLegend and then, post-acquisition, a product manager at Zynga. The company has raised $2 million from Joe Lonsdale (a founder at Palantir and… Read More
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Gradle Grabs $4.2 Million To Expand Commercial Company Around Open Source Build System
Surely by now we know that every company is a software company, and as more companies focus on software development, it is increasingly difficult for them to manage the complexity around coordinating builds and creating executables. That’s where the open source Gradle tool comes in — and it got $4.2 million today to continue to expand the commercial company behind the open… Read More
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Hipchat-Maker Atlassian Begins Trading Up 32% at $27.67, Valued At $5.8 Billion
After pricing its IPO at $21, above the expected range of $19 to $20, Atlassian began trading up 32% at $27.67 in its debut on the Nasdaq today. This gives the company a valuation of $5.8 billion. The Australia-based unicorn, whose backers include Accel and T. Rowe Price, raised capital at over a $3.3 billion valuation in the private markets. In the wake of companies like Square and Box… Read More
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Elastic Joins Azure Marketplace As It Strengthens Relationship With Microsoft
Elastic announced today that it was deepening its relationship with Microsoft by adding its open source and commercial products to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Elastic (which used to be known as ElasticSearch) has been working with Microsoft for some time. It runs search on MSN.com, is embedded in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and also built into the Azure framework. With today’s… Read More
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