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Startup RapidAPI raises $3.5M to simplify software integration
ProgrammableWeb lists more than 16,000 application program interfaces in its directory, up from just 300 decade ago, and the market is expanding by about 40 new entrants per week. But building applications that use multiple APIs can require some gymnastics. That’s why RapidAPI is trying to help with an open source platform that enables developers worldwide to ...
LinkedIn spiffs up email client in Sales Navigator social selling tool
LinkedIn Corp. has redesigned its InMail for Sales Navigator to help sales professionals deliver customized messages, in the first major update since the company announced added Gmail and Salesforce.com integration in July. The redesigned client enables sales people to scroll through the profile of a sales prospect and insert relevant information about their experiences. Users ...
Salesforce.com beats sales, profit estimates as good times roll on
Things just keep getting better for Salesforce.com Inc. The company, which sells customer relationship management software online, that kicked off the software-as-a-service revolution in 1999 issued a stronger-than-expected earning report, sending its stock up more than 6 percent in after-hours trading. Salesforce.com had been lagging the overall market for the past three months on speculation that ...
CA burnishes mainframe line and expands DevOps support
CA Technologies Inc. is brushing up its mainframe software line with advanced analytics, improved automation, support for DevOps rapid application development and improved security offerings. The company today also expanded or enhanced a wide range of development- and security-oriented products. “We’re closing the loop on everything from building apps to deploying them, managing them and ...
HyperGrid delivers cloud-in-a-box with container, licensing twists
Five months after its birth from the merger of Gridstore Inc. and DCHQ Inc., HyperGrid Inc. is delivering its promised hybrid-cloud-in-a-box service with a few unique twists. HyperCloud is described as a full scale-out application platform that can be set up in minutes and managed on premise, via a cloud service or as a combination of both. The ...
Survey sees Office 365 pulling away from Google’s G Suite
Google Inc. may have beaten Microsoft Corp. to the punch in getting office productivity applications in the cloud, but Microsoft has more than made up for lost time. A look at the use of cloud applications in more than 120,000 organizations around the world by cloud access security broker Bitglass Inc. finds that Office 365 is ...
Startup Veriflow takes big data approach to network, security monitoring
Veriflow Systems Inc. today is launching a network monitoring platform that takes a big data analytics approach to network monitoring, saying its technology can eliminate network outages and identify security vulnerabilities across complex networks at a scale other technologies can’t match. Born out of research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and backed with $10 million in ...
DataStax acquires its way into managed NoSQL cloud database market
DataStax Inc., developer of an enterprise version of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, has acquired DataScale Inc. and will launch a fully managed cloud version of its DataStax Enterprise product. Terms weren’t disclosed. DataScale is one of a handful of cloud-based management service providers that supports Cassandra, an open-source database engine that is prized for ...
Analytics help app developer conceive of new possibilities
Desperately trying to get pregnant? There’s an app for that. Actually, there are many apps for that. Type “period tracker” into Google Play and you’ll uncover more than 100 programs that help women track their menstrual cycles and dispense all kinds of helpful advice about health, fertility and how to conceive. One of the top-rated ...
Cloud network helps health care provider reel in remote-office costs
From an information technology perspective, small and midsized businesses with multiple locations get it in the neck. They often need to keep an arsenal of technology in place for protection and compliance reasons, even when the staff size in far-flung offices is tiny. North Carolina-based Universal Mental Health Services Inc. was in just such a quandary when ...
