Nokia, now lightened of its handset load thanks to Microsoft, has made an acquisition to expand its HERE mapping business, one of the assets that has remained with the Finnish company. It has bought Desti, a mapping startup and app maker that uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to help people find what they are […]
Posted on May 31st, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Credit: Wikimedia Tweet This Post
Posted on May 31st, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
It’s often been said that politics makes for strange bedfellows, but the same could be said for business. If you want proof, look no further than yesterday’s partnership announcement between Salesforce and Microsoft. These are two companies that compete fiercely for the same customers in the CRM space, suddenly making nice. If you look closely at […]
Posted on May 31st, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
A changing of the guard at ExactTarget, the email and digital marketing company that Salesforce acquired last year for $2.5 billion, its biggest acquisition to date. ExactTarget co-founder Scott Dorsey is stepping down as CEO, while Scott McCorkle, president of technology and strategy and COO, is stepping up. Sources tell us that emails went out to staff […]
Posted on May 30th, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
In the conflict between advocates of consumer privacy and those promoting the benefits of wide-reaching data collection, it’s not often we hear about the former getting a win. Yet it appears that’s exactly what happened in San Francisco last night. Philz Coffee, the Bay Area coffee shop mainstay, announced that it would no longer collect […]
Posted on May 30th, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
While companies spend trillions of dollars on big data technologies to compile, store, and deliver the volumes of data they’re collecting and the software and services that they have to make sense of that data once it’s collected, there’s a divide that separates the two parts of the process. San Francisco, Calif.-based Trifacta is selling […]
Posted on May 29th, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Microsoft plans to boost its Azure cloud services with its acquisition of Capptain, whose product helps developers track and analyze usage of their Web and mobile apps and implement customer retention strategies. Tweet This Post
Posted on May 29th, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Over the years, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has emerged as one of the greatest philanthropists in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he wants others to join him. Today at the CODE Conference, Benioff urged the members of the tech community to make stronger commitments to give back to their local communities. A number of […]
Posted on May 29th, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
There is obviously a growing market related to moving traditional on-premises enterprise software to the cloud, but what you might not know is that beyond that group of products, there is a whole other category of services being developed to support those top-level companies, whether that’s security, authentication, monitoring, back up or billing and customer retention. And… Read […]
Posted on May 28th, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Big data and the growth of services that help us make sense of it are some of the more fascinating developments of our connected world, but in some cases they can be also some of the more scary, with companies collecting billions of data points that speak to every aspect of what we do online. Today, a report […]
Posted on May 27th, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
