Over the past few years, millions of consumers have bought into the deal of the day and group buying craze. But what about small to medium sized businesses? There are 26 million SMBs (small to medium sized businesses) in the US, who spend an average of $180,000 per year on non-payroll expenses, for a market […]
Posted on September 19th, 2011 by admin
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When it comes to business intelligence and competitive analysis, large businesses hire consultants and employ in-house analysts to help determine where a business should be operating, how to compete, how to grow and more. But what about small businesses? According to the SBA, 99.9% of the businesses in the US are small businesses. There’s a […]
Posted on September 19th, 2011 by admin
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Moprise is launching a new iPad application it’s calling a “Flipboard for the Enterprise.” The app is a tablet-optimized version of the company’s currently available Coaxion iPhone application. The Flipboard analogy isn’t quite right, however. Flipboard is about reading news and articles, browsing photos and viewing updates from your social networks in a magazine-like format. […]
Posted on September 16th, 2011 by admin
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Cloud computing is very different from traditional networks and applications. In general, a service or offering is considered cloud computing if it has at least four of these seven traits: Internet (or intranet) accessible A massively scalable, user-configurable pool of elastic computing resources (such as networkbandwidth, compute power, memory, etc.) Multitenancy (one large software instance […]
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TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has just wrapped. In the feverish air of anticipation we carefully cultivate during the Disrupt season, you may have missed some of the talks, panels, launches, or startups that have taken place here at this incomparable conference. Don’t worry. We’ve collected all the content by our writing and video teams here […]
Posted on September 16th, 2011 by admin
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FireHost, a company that specializes in secured cloud hosting, has raised $10 million in Series B funding in a round led by family-owned private equity firm The Stephens Group, with earlier backers also participating. The additional capital will be used to scale the company and enter the European market (starting with the UK). FireHost, which […]
Posted on September 16th, 2011 by admin
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GCT Semiconductor (GCT), a Korean-American fabless designer and supplier of 4G wireless semiconductor solutions, this morning announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the SEC for a proposed IPO of its common stock. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet […]
Posted on September 15th, 2011 by admin
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Opera Solutions, not to be confused with browser maker Opera Software, has raised a whopping $84 million in its very first round of outside equity funding. According to the Wall Street Journal, the round values the company at half a billion dollars. The company, which is in the business of ‘Big Data’ analytics, got a […]
Posted on September 15th, 2011 by admin
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Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) this morning announced that it has acquired India’s AppLabs, a provider of software testing and quality management services. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition is meant to grow CSC’s applications development and management business as well as extending software testing and quality management services to its clients. […]
Posted on September 14th, 2011 by admin
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Well-known software developer Joel Spolsky has built popular Q&A network Stack Exchange, and launched FogBugz, a project management system for software teams. Next up on the docket is Trello, a team workflow platform and list manager that is launching at TechCrunch Disrupt. Spolsky says that the hardest things about running and managing a company is […]
Posted on September 14th, 2011 by admin
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