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The Year Of The Corporate Divorce
It’s been a good time to be a corporate marriage counselor, and an even better time to be a corporate divorce attorney. Just in the last two weeks, we learned that eBay was spinning off PayPal into its own company, HP is going to split up its consumer hardware and corporate services into separate companies, and Symantec will cut itself in half as well.
Like two embittered high school… Read More
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Forget LinkedIn, Conspire Analyses Email To Be Your Next Networking Tool
LinkedIn — now with over 300 million users — has become the go-to platform for networking in the business world. Now, a new startup called Conspire is hoping to dig into that marketshare (and mindshare) with a new approach for how to meet people. It taps into your communications platforms — starting first with email and those who use Gmail or Google Apps email — and… Read More
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Microsoft CEO Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot On Gender Pay Gap
Today at the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hit the skids after Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd — an institution known for its prominence in STEM fields — asked him how young women should ask for a raise. Nadella replied that not asking for a raise can in fact be “one of the additional superpowers that, quite frankly, women who don’t… Read More
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Box Acquires Y Combinator-Backed MedXT To Bolster Its Healthcare Push
Box, an enterprise-focused cloud storage and productivity company, announced this morning that it has acquired Y Combinator-backed MedXT, a firm that provides a cloud-based file storage system for medical imaging. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The acquisition fits into Box’s recently announced strategy to pursue a number of industry verticals, which it calls Box for Industries. Read More
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Druva Wants To Make Backup Tape History By Moving Server Backup To Cloud
Druva, which to this point has been known for data protection and backup in the cloud for PCs, laptops and mobile devices, announced a new server backup product today called Phoenix aimed at bringing this part of the backup and archival system out of the age of tapes and trucks and into the cloud. In spite of the growing popularity of the cloud for device backup, much of the data center… Read More
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Employee Relocation Startup Move Guides Scores $8.2 Million Series A
Move Guides, a London startup that offers ‘talent mobility’ software in the cloud to help companies manage the relocation of their employees, has raised an $8.2 million Series A round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Existing investor Notion Capital also participated, along with individual investors Andy Leaver (ex-VP EMEA and APAC, Workday) and David Windley (ex-CHRO Yahoo!). Read More
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Office’s Place In The New Microsoft
In a recent Vanity Fair feature on Microsoft that you should certainly read, a comment from former CEO Bill Gates is worth considering: “[T]he original idea of having great software people and broad software products and Office being the primary tool that people look to across all these devices, that’s as true today and as strong as ever.” Read More
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Slack Changes Sign-In Process On Desktop To Remove Team Names [Updated]
Slack says the visibility of team names is not entirely its fault. In a statement, the company points out that team discoverability via email domain is a setting team owners and administrators can control. It can also be set so that users can join by invitation only, which Slack says will not make team names visible to all. Read More
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Refresh is making all its insights available where many salespeople do their work — that is, within Salesforce. With a new product available on the Salesforce AppExchange, customers will be able to integrate Refresh’s data on top of their Salesforce dashboard. 
Google today is launching a new subscription service for businesses that use Chromebooks. For $50 per year and device, businesses can now subscribe to get access to Google’s advanced Chrome OS management features and support.