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Box.net Raises Another $48M for Cloud Collaboration
Adding one more link to the cloud growth chain, business-focused cloud file storage and collaboration service Box.net raised $48 million in a Series D funding round. The sum comes in addition to $30 million Box.net already raised in venture capital, and will probably be used to further expand the company’s supported marketplace. “…co-founder and CEO Aaron ...
Comics Take on Android as Digital Publishing, Personal Cloud Grows Verticals
Comics were popular long before the dawn of the Kindle and iPad. But the literary genre is gaining new grounds, and market share, through just about every consumer device, including Android smartphones and tablets. Digital comics distributor Graphic.ly announced a brand new Android app fresh out of beta. Marking Graphic.ly’s first introduction to Android, the app ...
AppSense Gets $70M from Goldman Sachs, Builds Out Virtualization Solutions
UK-based virtualization solutions provider AppSense announced it has received a $70 million investment from Goldman Sachs. The sum will be used to accelerate AppSense’s growth and expand its share of the cloud virtualization market, which is expected to hit the $2 billion mark in a few years. Goldman Sachs managing director Pete Perrone will join ...
WordPress Ignores The Times’ Death Sentence, Launches WordPress 3.1
WordPress 3.1 is now available. Codenamed ‘Reinhardt’ after jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, the latest version of WP brings with it quite a few notable updates, including increased backend speed. This translates into a new admin bar featuring shortcuts to the most used pages and a redesigned linking mechanism. WordPress 3.1 also come with some new ...
Cisco Pulls the Plug on E-mail Service, Losses Core Market Share
Cisco is dropping it se-mail service, only a little over a year after it launched the offering in Nov. 2009. Cisco announced in a blog post it’s shutting off Cisco Mail since the company’s customers “have come to view their email as a mature and commoditized tool versus a long-term differentiated element of their collaboration ...
Cisco’s New Right Hand Man, Sights Set on Significant Milestones
Cisco has been a very active company lately, most notably these past 12 hours. Several updates were announced and uncovered, starting with a new no. 2 executive, as revealed by WSJ. While other companies are eliminating the chief operating officer title, Cisco just added to it – Gary Moore has been named the company’s new ...
Updated Jolicloud OS Brings Cloud Power to your Antique Computer
Today Jolicloud, a Chromium-based Operating System designed to put old or relatively weak computers back to work using the cloud, released version 1.1.1. The OS works by moving tasks typically processed locally to the cloud, and has now extended its support include to computers manufactured more than 10 years ago. Supported graphic cards include: Support ...
Mobile Payments Get Competitive with Paydiant, Isis and Google (yet Again)
Paydiant, a Boston-based mobile payments stealth start-up, announced it has raised $7.6 million in its first round of funding. The round was led by North Bridge Venture Partners and General Catalyst Partners, and will be used to expand product development, sales and marketing. “Jim Moran, General Partner at North Bridge and John Simon, Managing Director ...
VMware Looks to Mobile iOS, Japan for Cloud Future
VMware has a couple noteworthy developments today, starting with the possibility we may see an iOS offering in the near future. The company recently unveiled a mobile virtualization platform for Android aimed to create separate environments for employees’ personal and work related data, and it may just hit the iPhone near you. Bloomberg reports that ...
WHERE Launches Perfect Places, Forges Bump Partnership
Location-based mobile company WHERE announced the new Perfect Places feature for its mobile apps, which seems to replicate the concept of social networking to a local, real-life extent. The feature recommends users local places they would be interested in visiting by matching similarities in their activity. Walt Doyle, WHERE CEO says “There’s been tremendous excitement around ...
