Apperian has raised a new round of funding from Intel Capital, bringing its total raised to $28 million for the mobile application management company. Apperian did not disclose the funding amount from Intel Capital. Prior to this round, Apperian had $23.4 million in total funding, putting Intel’s investment at $4.6 million. The additional capital builds on […]
Posted on January 28th, 2013 by admin
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Tell me what a server is these days. Applied Micro Circuit CEO Paramesh Gopi says that it’s on an ARM chip that needs far less room and eats up less power than the Intel and AMD x86 servers that now dominate data centers. But now with data generated at unprecedented scale, efficiency is the new […]
Posted on January 27th, 2013 by admin
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Distil.it, a cloud-based platform that aims to help businesses quash web scraping and other nefarious web-born fraud, announced today that it has landed $1.8 million in seed financing. Investors in the round included ff Venture Capital, Idea Fund Partners, CIT, Piedmont RIA, Cloud Power Fund and TechStars. What has investors intrigued? Distil.it co-founder and CEO […]
Posted on January 27th, 2013 by admin
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League of Legends is the most-played, multi-player PC game in the world, with gamers logging nearly 1.3 billion hours of play time. The Riot Games title has more hours logged than World of Warcraft and Minecraft. With that kind of scale, Riot Games faced some challenges that any company experiences when they have that kind of load in […]
Posted on January 26th, 2013 by admin
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It’s been a weird decade for Cisco. After being a dot-com darling in the late 90s (everyone wanted a few Cisco routers for their door-to-door pet food delivery services), the company tried its hand at consumer products with the Flip video camera series and, a little while later, Linksys routers. It seems, then, that Cisco’s […]
Posted on January 26th, 2013 by admin
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In December, employers took 1,509 mass layoff actions involving 137,839 workers. Mass layoff events decreased by 240 from November, and associated initial claims decreased by 35,040. In 2012, annual totals for events and initial claims were at their lowest levels since 2007. There is a narrow gap between the average pay of senior executives, […]
Posted on January 26th, 2013 by admin
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Neelie Kroes, VP of the European Commission, today announced a new education initiative for Europe with help from Cisco, Nokia, Telefonica, ARM, HP and other tech titans, as well as government and other partners. The aim, she says, is to close what Europe estimates as a 700,000-IT-job gap in the region. One of the first […]
Posted on January 25th, 2013 by admin
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More hardware will open up — it’s inevitable. Hardware in the data center is no exception. As Tim O’Reilly said in his keynote at the Open Compute Summit, innovation in the data center is critical for keeping up with the Internet’s pace of innovation. A first step is opening the hardware so people can hack […]
Posted on January 25th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon today announced that it is acquiring Ivona Software, a Polish-based specialist in voice technologies that competes with Nuance and is already used in the Kindle Fire for services covering text-to-speech, voice commands and “Explore by Touch.” The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The move is significant for a couple of reasons. First, […]
Posted on January 24th, 2013 by admin
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Cloud continual delivery service Wercker has received a seed investment from an A-list group of investors. The round was led by Shamrock Ventures with additional support from Greylock Venture Partners, and Amsterdam-based micro VC Vitulum Ventures. Vitulum provides seed capital for Internet and mobile startups. Company executives did not reveal the amount of funding they […]
Posted on January 24th, 2013 by admin
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