Saturday April 27, 2024

Salesforce Beats Estimates With $957M In Revenues, Earnings 9 Cents Per Share

Salesforce.com beat estimated earnings, posting $957 million in revenues, a 31 percent increase compared to last year. Non-GAAP earnings were 9 cents per share. Subscription and support revenues were $903 million, also a 31 percent increase on a year-over-year basis. Salesforce projects its revenues to top $4 billion for the 2014 fiscal year. In 2013, it […]

Sinofsky joins BOX to take down Office — Microsoft courting FOURSQUARE — FACEBOOK user pix for facial recognition — PC nosedive accelerates

August 30, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Rock Health’s Halle Tecco, Neurotrack, Cellscope And Bioinformatics Expert To Discuss The Future Of Diagnosis At Disrupt

Over the last two years, the digital health space has been on fire and I’m excited to lead a panel at Disrupt SF on the subject. With the healthcare market bogged down by high costs, old technology and slow-moving giants, the space is rife with opportunity and health startups have begun to emerge by the dozen. […]

Nokia Kicks Its Auto Ambitions Into High Gear With Connected Driving, A Cross-Platform Suite Of In-Car Navigation Services and Smartphone Apps

While Nokia continues to work on clawing back some of the once-market-leading smartphone business it has lost in the last few years to Apple and Android handset makers like Samsung, it has also slowly been building out a business based around its mapping and navigation division, rebranded as HERE earlier this year. That strategy — which […]

Pirated WIN8.1 in the wild — TWITTER adds Conversations view — GOOGLE agog over affairs — Top IOS APP publisher: Google

August 29, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Pure Storage Raises $150M And Sets For Battle With The Storage Giants

Pure Storage has raised $150 million for its super-fast and feature-rich flash storage technology. The round was led by T. Rowe Price, Tiger Global Management and “other public market investors,” along with participation from previous investors Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures. The new funding brings the company’s total […]

Quip, Ex-Facebook CTO Bret Taylor’s New Word Processing App, Now Supports French, German, Italian And Spanish

Quip, the mobile-first iOS and Android word processing app, spent many months in stealth mode as its creators, Bret Taylor (ex-Facebook CTO) and Kevin Gibbs (father of Google Apps Engine) built and polished the app for a debut at the end of July. But when it’s come to international expansion, the developers have wasted little […]

SOFTWARE PATENTS BANNED in New Zealand — Worldwide HACKATHON hits NYTIMES — WIN8 apps may not run with Win8.1 — BRAIN CONTROL over the Internet

August 28, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

HyTrust Raises $18.5M For Security Technology That Protects The Virtual Data Center

HyTrust has raised $18.5 million for its security technology designed for the new reality of the virtualized data center that requires new methods to prevent security breaches. The Series C oversubscribed financing came from Intel Capital and Fortinet, as well as recent investors VMware and In-Q-Tel. Previous investors Granite Ventures, Cisco Systems, Trident Capital and Epic […]

Couchbase Raises $25M To Further Develop NoSQL Database And Expand Into International Markets

NoSQL database company Couchbase has raised $25 million to build new enterprise features and expand primarily into India, China and South America. The Series D round was led by Adams Street Partners and joined by existing investors Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Ignition Partners. To date, the company has raised $56 […]