Apigee has raised $35 million for its API management platform. The funding was led by a new investment fund managed by BlackRock, Inc., and Accenture, the global consulting company. Since 2005, Apigee has raised $107 million. The Series E round opens the opportunity for the company to do an initial public offering. That has to be […]
Posted on July 31st, 2013 by admin
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In a blog post today, Cloudscaling Co-Founder and CTO Randy Bias said CEO Michel Grant is leaving the company with a replacement being sought for the cloud systems company. Bias will serve as interim CEO, replacing Grant who joined Cloudscaling in February, 2011. Bias emphasized in the post the company’s ties to OpenStack and the […]
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There is growing proof that the API is a core value piece for selling software and services. The latest example of this emerging form of commerce comes from AppDirect, a cloud marketplace provider that is launching an API platform for connecting developers and resellers. Just out of private beta, AppDirect has signed about 1,000 developers. The […]
Posted on July 30th, 2013 by admin
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Olapic has today closed a $5 million Series A round led by Fung Capital USA and Longworth Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors including Great Oaks and Scout Ventures. Olapic lets brands leverage our current obsession with photo-sharing by taking user-generated photos and putting them within brand partners’ ecommerce experience. When we last heard […]
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Online identity and privacy startup Reputation.com continues its march along the acquisition trail. Today the company is announcing its third acquisition this year: MySocialCloud, which provides a cloud-based service that lets users manage all their passwords and other login information in one place, by way of an extension — called “Cloud It” — that exists […]
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Docker, an app container service from the co-founder at DotCloud, and Salt, an open DevOps platform from the founder of SaltStack, were mentioned this past week at OSCON as two of the most exciting new open-source efforts. Complexity comes with the cloud and its fit with enterprise data centers. The Docker team calls this new […]
Posted on July 29th, 2013 by admin
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For 100 years or more, architects have relied on a massive catalog sitting on their desk to find the right products to use in their architectural project — this brand of glass, or that brand of toilet. That catalog had a monopoly on the market for a century, but with the birth of the internet, […]
Posted on July 29th, 2013 by admin
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One of the complaints I often hear from VCs here in Silicon Valley is that there just aren’t enough enterprise mobility startups. Clearly, with employees bringing their own devices to work in lieu of company issued Blackberries and Apple now dominating the enterprise tablet market with 88 percent of activations, there’s a market opportunity here. […]
Posted on July 28th, 2013 by admin
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Cloudscaling CTO Randy Bias wrote an open letter to OpenStack today. In it he outlines why the open cloud effort will only win if it accepts Amazon Web Services (AWS) and creates a compatible API. He argues that AWS is the defacto leader. The solution: OpenStack should stop trying to build out its own differentiated […]
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Addvocate has raised $2.39 million for its service that helps companies put some operations management behind its social media efforts. The round was led by Rogers Venture Partners and included angel investor Karen Riley. A social media strategy is now a mainstream part of sales and marketing. But it has little infrastructure behind it. Addvocate provides […]
Posted on July 27th, 2013 by admin
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