Breaking news, fresh off of the wire: HP just finalized agreements to buy Palm for $1.2 billion dollars.
HP’s $1.2 billion dollar purchase breaks down to roughly $5.70 per share of common stock. While this is pretty close to the price Palm was rumored to be shopping around as of late, it’s still a mammoth difference [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2010 by admin
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Security software giant Symantec has acquired two email and data encryption companies this morning. Symantec purchased PGP Corporation for approximately $300 million in cash and acquired GuardianEdge for approximately $70 million in cash. The deals are expected to close in June.
Clearly, both acquisitions aim to boost Symantec’s data encryption technology. Both PGP and [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2010 by admin
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When it comes to designing a website, you can do all the tweaking you want, but you won’t know that your design actually works until people start using it. That’s where UserTesting.com, a startup that launched back in 2008, comes in. The service lets you quickly get usability feedback about your site by offering to [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2010 by admin
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Nearly
three-quarters of organizations believe they have adequate policies in place to
protect sensitive, personal information, yet more than half have lost sensitive
data within the past two years — and nearly 60 percent of those organizations
acknowledge data loss as a recurring problem, according to findings of a global
study released today by Accenture.
The study —
which surveyed more than [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2010 by admin
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WorldMate has partnered with American Express Business Travel to power the new AmEx BlackBerry app. WorldMate’s mobile apps is similar in theory to TripIt, and is catered specifically for business travelers.
The app sends push alerts to your phone about flight cancellations, sudden meeting changes, and last second booking requirements. Services including in the American [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2010 by admin
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Java developers may have good news to celebrate today. Salesforce.com and virtualization giant VMware are partnering to launch VMforce, a enterprise Java Cloud platform to enable Java developers to build apps off of Force.com. Salesforce is leveraging the Java development framework which was acquired by VMware when the company bought SpringSource for $420 million. SpringSource [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2010 by admin
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Yammer CEO David Sacks dropped by TechCrunch today to talk about corporate and sales milestones. The “Twitter for enterprise” startup, which won TechCrunch50 in 2008, continues to grow nicely.
Yammer now has 70,000 corporate clients, and 800,000+ total seats (users). At least 1,000 of those companies are paying for the product, and Sacks says 10%-15% of [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2010 by admin
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Facebook took over the Gillmor Gang this week like it threatens to do the Web. Danny Sullivan represented those who fear the unadulterated market power of the social giant. He pressed FriendFeed co-founder and now Facebook platform chief Bret Taylor on the Pandora and Microsoft deals, which push user data to “partners” without user [...]
Posted on April 25th, 2010 by admin
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Microsoft officially released Silverlight 4 yesterday. Microsoft has also released a candidate of Expression Blend 4 (compatible with Silverlight 4) this week. The tech giant says that Silverlight is now installed on nearly 60% of Internet-connected devices worldwide.
In just five short months, Microsoft has gone from beta to the full release of Silverlight 4, which [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2010 by admin
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The social web is now an integral part of any CRM or sales operation. Information from blogs, news sites, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, has become a necessary element to help convert sales leads. Companies like Hoovers, InsideView and even Salesforce are now providing businesses with this relevant information. A new product is launching today, called [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by admin
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