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WHAT$APP signals bubble or broad undervaluation — TESLA-APPLE tie-up? — Google Magic Carpet (MAPS) — SCHMIDT leaves HR ‘paper trail’

February 20, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Beckon Wants To Help Marketers Make Sense Of Data And Track Spend On-The-Fly

There is Salesforce.com for sales professionals, numerous off-the-shelf packages for finance and HR professionals and thousands of apps for several other enterprise utilities. But marketeers still don’t have a single dashboard to monitor their spend and its impact across different campaigns and functions. And while there are several marketing tools and dashboards that offer custom […]

CloudLock Launches A Fully Cloud-Based Selective Encryption Product

Cloud security startup CloudLock will launch new encryption product to make it easier for service-as-a-service and cloud platforms to protect sensitive data. Called CloudLock Selective Encryption, the product’s launch comes a few weeks after CloudLock announced that it had raised $16.5 million in Series C funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing its total funding […]

Business continuity objectives

Business continuity objectives are, along with the business impact analysis, probably one of the most difficult elements of ISO 22301 implementation. Most of the business continuity implementers have problems like these: Which types of objectives exist? What are they used for? How are they set? Purpose of business continuity objectives Victor Janulaitis, the CEO of […]

VERIZON rains on Netflix party — Amazon, Apple annoy MADISON AVE — YAMMER’s social-email convergence — Time for TIZEN

February 19, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

CrowdTwist Brings On Two New Board Members, Coca-Cola’s Carol Kruse And Visa’s Shiv Singh

CrowdTwist, a social loyalty rewards platform, has today announced two new heavy-hitting board members, Carol Kruse and Shiv Singh. Kruse spent nearly 10 years at Coca-Cola, where she led the interactive marketing team as global vice president of Digital. She then went to ESPN and served as a senior vice president and then CMO. Currently, […]

Cloud Security Startup Elastica Comes Out Of Stealth With $6.3M From Mayfield

Elastica, a cloud security startup launched in 2012, is coming out of stealth mode with $6.3 million in Series A funding from the Mayfield Fund. The startup is also launching its new apps that offer real-time threat detection and even post-incident forensic analysis. As more enterprises embrace SaaS and other cloud-based services, they are increasingly feeling […]

Snooping on WIKILEAKS, Anonymous — YAHOO gets into search — BITCOIN ATMs in Seattle, Austin — ICYMI: iOS tops Windows PC sales — 22 TECH EXECS make $20M+

February 18, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Posting 29% Q4 Revenue Growth, Microsoft’s Lync Promises To Land On Android Tablets This Summer

Lync, Microsoft’s little engine that could, continues to grow. The company announced at the end of its last fiscal year (2013) that Lync had brought in more than $1 billion in revenue. The group had grown more than 30 percent in the fourth, third, and second quarters of Microsoft’s fiscal 2013. Microsoft put up a flag […]

BITCOIN flaw flagged — Top Windows analyst curses MICROSOFT — SNOWDEN jacked NSA with basic crawler — AWS mystery bandwidth THROTTLE

February 10, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post