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Google Goes After Microsoft And IBM By Making Google Apps For Work Free While Customers Still Under Competitor’s Contract
To acquire more Google Apps for Work customers, Google just announced a new promotion that’s a huge shot across Microsoft’s bow. The company says that it will give interested customers access to Google Apps for Work for free, while they’re still under an enterprise agreement (EA) with another provider. While Google didn’t call out Microsoft or IBM by name when making… Read More
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Red Hat Is Buying IT Automation Startup Ansible, For $150M
Open source giant Red Hat is making another acquisition to build out its enterprise IT portfolio: today the company announced that it would buy Ansible, an IT automation solutions specialist that helps companies build and manage hybrid IT deployments across the cloud and on-premise solutions. The acquisition had been rumored to be in the works for a price of over $100 million but a source… Read More
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Box’s New Platform Product Is Now Generally Available
Update: I got some of Box’s product lineup mixed up. I’ve edited the post not just for clarity, but also for Being Frakking Wrong. Apologies from your humble servant. Box’s platform product, the aptly named Box Platform, is now generally available, as the company promised at its recent conference. Box recently hired Jeetu Patel away from EMC to run the new service. If… Read More
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Skype Now Lets Anyone Join A Chat Even If They Don’t Have An Account
Skype is working to make is service more broadly accessible, Microsoft announced today, detailing a new feature that will allow users to invite anyone – even those who don’t have a Skype account – to use the service via the Skype for Web interface. Invitees won’t have to create an account or download an app, but can instead join a chat as a guest simply by clicking a link. Read More
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Quip Gets $30M From Greylock And Benchmark To Grow Its Mobile-First Word Processing App
Some big news today for Quip, the mobile-first word processing and collaboration app that competes with the likes of Google Docs. The eponymous startup behind the service has raised $30 million in funding — a Series B round led by Greylock with participation from Benchmark. Along with the funding, Quip is announcing some key people joining its team. Patrick Moran — who had been… Read More
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Hightail Launches Spaces, A New Service For Collaborating On Visual Files
Back in 2013, YouSendIt changed its name to Hightail because it had evolved beyond its original file-sharing roots. Today, the core of the service is still about sharing files, but with a greater focus on professional use. To emphasize this, the company is officially launching Hightail Spaces out of beta today, a new tool that wants be the Google Docs for visual files — and kill… Read More
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Raising $2.56B In IPO, First Data Opens Only 2.4% Up At $16.39, Closes Below IPO Price At $15.83
After payments processor First Data priced its initial public offering at $16 per share last night, below the expected range of $18-$20, all eyes were on the company to see how the year’s biggest IPO — raising $2.56 billion — would perform in its debut. Ultimately, there were no fireworks. Trading under the FDC ticker on the New York Stock Exchange, First Data’s… Read More
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VMware To Purchase Boxer Email App And Fold It Into AirWatch
VMware didn’t let this week’s news that it was included in the $67 billion merger with Dell prevent it from breaking some news of its own, announcing plans to purchase email management app Boxer for an undisclosed amount at VMworld Europe. Even though EMC owns 80 percent of VMware, it has always operated as an independent entity, publicly traded under a separate stock. It… Read More
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Dell Needs To Decide What To Keep And What To Sell After EMC Deal
In the brave new enterprise world, organizations will be awash in big data, and it’s against this backdrop that Dell bought EMC this week for the astonishing sum of $67 billion. All of this data needs to be stored somewhere and that’s where EMC comes in. Dell already has been selling storage of course. In fact, it bought EqualLogic in 2007 for $1.4 billion, which seemed like a… Read More
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PubNub Expands Series C To $25M, Banks On IoT To Boost Business On Its Messaging Network
PubNub, the startup that has built a data network that carries messaging for apps, IoT hardware and other low-latency services, is today announcing that it has extended and closed its Series C round. The San Francisco-based company has raised $25 million, funding that it will use to sharpen its focus on Internet of Things applications and hardware as well as clean energy and social… Read More
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