Social recruiting is all the rage right now when it comes to finding new employees to hire. Citysearch CEO Jay Herratti recently told me about a simple but effective way his company is using Facebook ads to hire people. Facebook ads are highly targetable. Citysearch puts up an ad with a picture of the hiring […]
Posted on May 13th, 2010 by admin
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Enterprise software giant SAP is acquiring fellow business software company Sybase for $5.8 billion in an all-cash offer. SAP is reportedly making the deal in an effort to compete with Oracle, which grew its business when it bought Sun Microsystems last year for $7.4 billion. The transaction is expected to close during the third quarter […]
Posted on May 13th, 2010 by admin
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A Department of Treasury Web site hosted by a third party was hacked for a short while redirecting visitors to a malicious site in Ukraine and later tracking IP addresses before the Department of Treasury took the site offline. The Department of Treasury did not identify the provider that hosted the Bureau of Engraving and Printing […]
Posted on May 13th, 2010 by admin
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We’ve written about Zuora, a SaaS startup that offers online services to manage and automate customer subscriptions and payments, and its impressive backing. Today the company has reached a new milestone; Zuora has signed over $1 billion in contracted subscription revenue in the first quarter of its new fiscal year, which ended April 30. Zuora’s […]
Posted on May 12th, 2010 by admin
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Business software company Intuit has announced the acquisition of healthcare communications software company Medfusion. The cash transaction is valued at approximately $91 million. The transaction is expected to close during the fourth quarter of Intuit’s fiscal year 2010. Intuit plans to integrate Medfusion into its Quicken Health solutions. Intuit says the acquisition will be used […]
Posted on May 12th, 2010 by admin
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IT performance analytics vendor Integrien today announced that the company has completed a funding round of $8 million. The financing round was led by Clearstone Venture Partners and joined by the Acartha Group and Mariner Capital Ventures. The company says it will use the funds to increase both its direct and indirect sales channel to […]
Posted on May 11th, 2010 by admin
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Paperless billing is the digital future that never quite fully arrives. Even among people who otherwise embrace the digital lifestyle, and pay their bills electronically, many find it difficult to give up on the paper statement. They feel they need it for their financial records or it serves as a physical reminder to pay the […]
Posted on May 11th, 2010 by admin
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Infrastructure technology startup Infineta Systems this morning announced that it has closed a $15 million Series A round of venture capital funding with backing from Alloy Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners. The financing was first covered by Venturebeat last week. The company says it will use the funding to “pioneer a new category of […]
Posted on May 10th, 2010 by admin
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Social media monitoring firm Sysomos is launching a new service for marketers to measure the dollar value of each person who visits their company’s website. It is called Sysomos Audience (currently in private beta). Sysomos Audience is an analytics tool which at first looks similar to Google Analytics, but with one big difference: it goes […]
Posted on May 9th, 2010 by admin
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This guest post was written by Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box.net. Box.net was founded in 2005 with the goal of helping people and businesses easily access and share information from anywhere. He has a few suggestions for how Microsoft can better embrace the cloud. In the coming days, weeks, and months, Microsoft will […]
Posted on May 8th, 2010 by admin
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