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DECLASSIFIED docs nail NSA domestic spying — HP way down, Donatelli out, VEGHTE in — YAHOO passes Google — UBUNTU Edge tanks — WINDOWS PHONE sweeps Latin America

August 22, 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

Crowdtilt Launches Crowdhoster To Let Anyone Create, Customize And Host Their Own Crowdfunding Campaigns

Thanks to the JOBS Act and the rise of Kickstarter, Indiegogo and the parade of startups that have emerged in their wake, crowdfunding has gone mainstream. However, according to the minds behind Crowdtilt — the Y Combinator-incubated platform that caters to the many types of “group fundraising” that fall outside the purview of Kickstarter — […]

Appcelerator Acquires Singly, A Developer Platform For Integrating Third-Party Services

Appcelerator has acquired Singly, a platform that integrates third-party services in both web and mobile applications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Singly will soon start to integrate its AppFabric and DataFabric service into the Appcelerator Platform and Titanium. Singly, founded three years ago, went into open beta last December. Sarah Perez wrote at the […]

BREAKING: BALLMER OUT — NASDAQ down, out — GOOGLE’s $258 million UBER tab — NGINX’s first commercial server — AMAZON tests wireless network — D.C. overtakes Valley for highest income

August 23, 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

SalesPredict Raises $1M In Seed Funding Through A Marriage Of Analytics And Sales

SalesPredict has raised $1 million in seed funding for its predictive analytics platform designed specifically for sales and marketing staff. The investment was equally led by Pitango Venture Capital, AfterDox and RSL Venture Partners with participation from angel investors. “We are not trying to resolve a generic problem,” said Co-Founder Yaron Zakai-Or. “We are taking generic algorithms to […]

Salesforce + Zillow? RealScout Lands $1.1M From DCM, Formation 8 For More Personal, Collaborative Real Estate Search

RealScout, a new real estate technology company based in Sunnyvale, announced today that it has raised $1.1 million in seed financing from DCM’s mobile‐focused A‐Fund, as well as Formation 8 and angel investors like long-time realtor, Ken DeLeon. With its new funding, RealScout wants to continue expanding its listings search engine, which the team designed […]

Software AG acquires JackBe for mashup tooling, real-time analytics

Software AG is adding mashup and real-time analytic capabilities to its lineup with the acquisition of JackBe. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed. JackBe is best known for its Presto mashup software, which allows users to bring together and visualize data from multiple sources. It has also offered a real-time […]

FullContact Automates The Tedious Task Of Adding Business-Card Data Into Salesforce

Business cards. They’re not exactly sexy, but they can turn into good leads and help to make some sales. Unfortunately, they are often long forgotten because, let’s face it, the manual work to punch in business card info can be, at best, tedious. TechStars alum FullContact has a new service for integrating contact information from […]

Morphlabs Raises $10M To Support Growth In The Greenfield Asia Market

Morphlabs has raised $10 million for its OpenStack management console that optimizes the hardware and the software with Flash technology for better speed and performance in cloud infrastructures. The round was led by Tallwood Management and Entropy Research Lab and also included existing investor G2iG. Morphlabs has raised a total of $22.5 million. Morphlabs, which is […]

GOOGLE huddles with NFL for TV rights — BITCOIN boom in China — TWITTER shops IPO — ANDROID eats APPLE in China in Q2 — STEVE JOBS schools open in Netherlands

August 21, 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