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GOOGLE’s Lego-like smartphone — Apple abandons SNOW LEOPARD — Security-first ANDROID ‘Blackphone’ — PROPUBLICA debuts Data Store

February 27, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

IBM wants to see your Watson mobile apps

Big Blue has announced a new contest to get mobile developers — and most everyone else who can use an API — serious about Watson, its cognitive computing platform. Tweet This Post

Samsung Introduces KNOX Marketplace, An Enterprise App Store Powered By AppDirect

Samsung is making a big push with its enterprise market appeal today, thanks to the introduction of the new Samsung KNOX Marketplace. This is a special mobile-focused digital software storefront that offers up business apps, IT provisioning and tools for tech managers working within large organizations. Samsung and partner AppDirect, which powers the marketplace, are […]

Box Picks Up Former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem As Special Adviser On Its Road To IPO

Today Box announced that it has picked up another Adult In The Room, increasing its leadership depth as it ramps towards a widely leaked, forthcoming initial public offering. Former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem will take on the role of Special Adviser to the growing company. Read More Tweet This Post

UK’s online SMEAR ops — MICROSOFT shrinks a giant — MT. GOX #fail claims 750K bitcoins — APPLE barn door still wide open — DROPBOX’s $10B valuation

February 25, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Fast-Growing 2U Files For $100M IPO, But Is It Poised To Be The Next Big Education Company?

When 2U emerged in 2008, online education was still struggling to be taken seriously. Despite steadily increasing online enrollment, many remained skeptical. Both fairly and unfairly, online education was seen as a world of simple micro-correspondence courses, limited in quality, incapable of producing outcomes truly commensurate with on-campus education and therefore merely a supplement, not […]

Ex-Googler-Founded Shape Security Picks Up Another $40M To Build Out Its “Botwall” For Businesses

Shape Security — the enterprise startup that emerged from stealth last month with an enterprise product that fights automated malware and bots by way of a firewall (or ‘botwall’ in its words) that shifts its shape depending on what is trying to scale it — has picked up another $40 million in funding. Read More […]

Nokia, Mozilla surprise at MWC — WHATSAPP finding its voice — Netflix succumbs to COMCAST — Industry giants push CLOUD FOUNDRY standard

February 24, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Atlassian Launches Git Essentials For The Enterprise

Atlassian, the company behind popular development tools like JIRA and Confluence, has long been focusing on Git as one of the main tools for getting enterprises to adopt the agile development methodology. Until now, though, it didn’t offer a single product that combined its Git-centric tools like Stash for source-code management and Bamboo for continuous […]

IBM Doubles Down On Cloud Services With Cloudant Acquisition

IBM is attempting to make up for its delayed push in cloud services by acquiring Cloudant, a YC alum and a cloud specialist in the area of NoSQL, database-as-a-service. This acquisition, the terms of which were not disclosed by the companies, comes a year after IBM acquired SoftLayer for around $2 billion, and also announced […]