Enterprise
Auto Added by WPeMatico
Lua, The Mobile-First Comms Tool For Any Workforce, Launches Insights Metrics Product
Lua, the mobile first communications platform for any workforce, has today launched a brand new feature of the product called Insights. Insights is a metrics platform that will allow clients to see in real-time the way that their employees are communicating and gauge that against the success of the company. Lua launched back in 2013 out of TechStars to bring better communication tools to… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
Massachusetts Open Cloud Project Hopes To Create Ad-Hoc Infrastructure Marketplace
Today, the cloud infrastructure market is dominated by several big companies – Amazon, Google and Microsoft — but a public/business/academia partnership called the Massachusetts Open Cloud project is hoping to change that by creating an open computing marketplace where you can negotiate whatever services you need from multiple infrastructure vendors. Peter Desnoyers, a professor… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
Luminoso Lands $6.5M In Series A To Keep Building Cloud Text Analytics Service
Luminoso, a Cambridge, MA-based text analytics company announced $6.5M in Series A funding today, led by Acadia Woods with Digital Garage also participating. That brings their total funds raised to $8M. Luminoso was born out of research at the MIT Media Labs and spun off in 2010. After getting their seed funding in 2012, they have continued to develop the product, which provides text analytics… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
Source: Rackspace Wants To Take Itself Private
Rackspace — the publicly-listed enterprise cloud services company that competes against the likes of Amazon’s AWS, Microsoft and Google — has been in the spotlight after announcing in May that it has hired bankers to help consider offers to parter with or be acquired by another company. However, it could choose a third option: taking itself private. Following the likes… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
Dropbox Buys E-Commerce A/B Testing Service Predictive Edge, Shuts It Down
Dropbox has made another acquisition: Predictive Edge, a startup that had built a way to personalise e-commerce offerings, along with dynamic pricing, for marketers to send out to users and run A/B tests around them.
The service will be shut down, and the founders will be working on something different, as they note in an announcement on the site. Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
Databricks Snags $33M In Series B And Debuts Cloud Platform For Processing Big Data
Databricks, the commercial entity created by the developers of the open source Apache Spark project, announced $33M in Series B funding today and the launch of a new cloud product, their first one as a company. There is little doubt that big data is a big deal these days and companies are popping up to help customers process the data. Databricks hopes to simplify the entire matter by moving it… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
CoreOS Raises $8M Series A Round, Launches Managed Linux As A Service
CoreOS, a Linux distribution optimized for very large server deployments, today announced that it has raised a $8 million Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with follow-on investments by Sequoia Capital and Fuel Capital. This comes after a previous investment from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital last year. Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
Microsoft May Prioritize The Desktop In Windows 9
Microsoft is looking to revamp and retool its Windows 8 operating system with a blend of updates that will see the code better suit the form factors that it wants to service. However, could those updates undo its push to create the Windows Store as a favored place for developers to put applications? Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
Get Paid: GoDaddy Links With PayPal, Dwolla, Stripe For A Mobile & Web Payment Service
As GoDaddy gears up for a $100 million IPO, the domain and web services company is adding on more features that will help it make more profitable revenues from its 12 million small-business customers. The latest of these puts GoDaddy further into the world of e-commerce. Today, it is launching “Get Paid,” a new online and mobile payments service created with existing… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
Open Platforms Fuel Startup Ecosystems
Companies face an inherent tension between being open or proprietary, but we’ve seen, again and again, that open systems can act as catalysts for entirely new businesses built on top of a popular platform. Earlier this month, we encountered examples of each approach, as Tesla Motors opened up its patents and Netflix decided to shut down, or at least severely limit access to its API. (To… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico