Monday May 20, 2024

6Scan’s Auto-Updating Website Protection Service Is Launching Today, Starting With WordPress

If you run a big website, you have a range of good options for staying protected from malicious hacks: hardware from enterprise-oriented companies like Cisco or McAfee, your own in-house support, or hosted professional blog services like WordPress VIP (which is what TechCrunch uses). If you’re a smaller site out on the open web, you […]

Lucky Sort Grabs Half A Million For Big Data Visualization On Web & iPad

How would you like to crunch your way through big data on your iPad? That’s one of the many promises of Lucky Sort, the stealthy new Portland, Oregon-based startup building a visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch meant for discovering patterns in live data streams. The company just raised a half-million seed round from Neu Venture […]

Lucky Sort Grabs Half A Million For Big Data Visualization On Web & iPad

How would you like to crunch your way through big data on your iPad? That’s one of the many promises of Lucky Sort, the stealthy new Portland, Oregon-based startup building a visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch meant for discovering patterns in live data streams. The company just raised a half-million seed round from Neu Venture […]

More Smartphones, More Risk: Mobilisafe Targets SMB’s With New Security Solution (Invites)

Mobilisafe, the stealthy Seattle-based mobile security startup with $1.2 million in funding from Madrona Venture Group and Trilogy Equity Partnership, is opening up access to its private beta program today (invite link below) for a handful of TechCrunch readers. In addition, the company is revealing new insights it gained during its private beta period related […]

Great Acquisitions! Now Put a Fork in ERP

Editor’s note: Tien Tzuo is the CEO of Zuora, as well as the former chief strategy officer/chief marketing officer at salesforce.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @tientzuo. Everyone is applauding Oracle and SAP’s cloud acquisitions — RightNow, SuccessFactors, and now Taleo. But the biggest cheers are coming from SAP and Oracle’s cloud competitors, […]

Tracx Secures $4.4 Million To Bring Big Data To Social Media Management

On Tuesday, we covered the launch of Nimble 2.0, a simple, affordable social relationship manager designed to give SMBs the same mileage out of social that enterprise has been able to create with its CRM strategies. For most companies, managing customer relations on social media is difficult, time-consuming, and less-than-precise, and they outsource different parts […]

BuiltWith Reveals The Tech Used By The 130 Million Web Sites That Matter Most

Search engines like Google scour the web to figure out how to rank content. Measurement firms like comScore sample users to estimate traffic to web sites. But what if you want to know which of some 2000 technologies a web site is using? And, what if you want to know what the tech trends are […]

Podio Plugs Google Docs Into Its Collaboration Tools

Startup Podio says it just addressed one of the top feature requests from the 40,000 companies that use its collaboration tools — it now integrates with Google Docs. When TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis wrote about Podio a year ago, she called it “Yammer with its own app store and app builder.” Judging from the demo I […]

Cybersecurity is not just an IT issue

Putting the onuss for all data security on the IT department to address security attacks is not a successful strategy. The attackers are exploiting the end-users more and more, thus circumventing security controls altogether. With that in mind, the two most urgent actions are for organizations to create awareness of the problem and build commitment among […]

SanDisk Acquires FlashSoft To Expand Enterprise Lineup

Flash memory maker and storage system technologies provider SanDisk announced today that it has acquired FlashSoft, a company focused on caching software products. Going forward, SanDisk will sell FlashSoft’s products both as standalone software, as well as offer them in combination with its other products, including SAS, PCIe and SATA enterprise solutions. The company says […]