Monday May 20, 2024

The Dawn Of Cloud 2.0 And Why Google Started A Price War

 Google recently announced up to 85 percent reduction in pricing for its PaaS and BigQuery services. Soon after, AWS and Microsoft followed suit. Welcome to Cloud 2.0. Read More Tweet This Post

Why Your Favorite App Isn’t Business-Related And How It Can Be

 Think about your favorite app. Let me guess. It’s a consumer app — something like Uber, Instagram or Pinterest. So what do we do to get business apps into that list of favorites? If we put the user experience first and incorporate utility, simplicity, engagement and emotion into our products, we can make work just […]

Work4 Raises $7M To Rival Job Sites With Its Social Network-Based Recruitment App

 Work4, an online recruitment startup that uses social networks to advertise and find leads for job vacancies, has picked up another $7 million in funding that it plans to use to expand further into markets outside the U.S., and the scope of its product. The Series B round was led by new investor Serena Capital […]

SpringCM Scores $18M In Funding; Plans To Expand Sales And Marketing

 SpringCM, which has been doing hosted content management since 2005, long before we called it The Cloud, announced today it has received $18M in venture funding. CEO Greg Buchholz told me he plans to use most of the money to expand his sales and marketing department. The funding for the Chicago-based company will come from […]

Linode Invests $45M To Switch To SSDs, Double RAM

 Thanks to new entrants like DigitalOcean, the competition in the hosting space has been heating up for the last few months and for the most part, it’s the users who are reaping the benefits of this. In what is surely a reaction to pressure from its competitors, Linode, the established cloud VPS provider, today announced […]

Get Poached

 The tech/startup industry is about as incestuous as it gets, and that’s without any clear tools to help people switch from one moonshot to the next. So imagine a world in which there are two! Allow me to proudly introduce PoachBox, the anonymous employee auction site, and Underdog, the NY-based site for finding your next […]

IBM Looks To The Cloud To Fight Disruption

 We are in an age of disruption and this is even more pronounced for a large technology company like IBM, but Big Blue finds itself in the position of having to reinvent itself yet again after surviving and even thriving through earlier technology transformations. Let’s not forget that IBM was once the king of mainframes, […]

Picking Office 365 is the easy part — now comes migration

So you’ve decided to make the move to Office 365. Now you face big questions. How do you get your email data into Office 365? Do you even want to move all your email data into it? Tweet This Post

UberConference Adds Screen Sharing

UberConference, the popular conference calling service and former TechCrunch Disrupt Battelfield winner, today announced that it has added screen sharing to its service. The company says this was one of the most requested features it has had since launch, and starting today, it’s available for all users, including those who use the free service. Read […]

Finnish Startup HeiaHeia Raises €1.5M To Expand Its Corporate Wellness Platform

 HeiaHeia, a Finnish startup offering a social and corporate wellness platform that helps employees live a healthier lifestyle — and, presumably, perform better at work — has raised €1.5 million in funding led by Finland’s Wallstreet Financial Services. Read More Tweet This Post