Monday February 6, 2012

Google Apps Coming To Google+ ‘Within Days’; Company Taking A ‘Cautious Approach’ To APIs

Google+ SVP Vic Gundotra and Google Co-founder Sergey Brin took to the stage today at The Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco to talk about their new social network and what exactly they’re up to these days. Among other things, Gundotra touched on the success Google+ has seen since its launch, most notably that users [...]

Backupify Snapshot Exits Beta, Adds More Features For Exporting Google Apps Accounts

Backupify, the startup that provides online data backup, archiving and export, is today releasing a new version of its Backupify Snapshot tool with additional features for Google Apps admins. The tool, for those unfamiliar, allows Google Apps administrators to extract and download the complete Google Apps account for a departing company employ and save the [...]

GetApp.com Raises $1.1 Million For Cloud-Based Business Apps Store

Exclusive – Roughly 21 months after successfully launching its vendor-neutral online marketplace for SaaS and cloud-based business applications, GetApp.com has secured $1.1 million from Spanish-American investment firm Nauta Capital to invest in further growth. GetApp.com is essentially a hub for SMB owners to compare, select and purchase SaaS and Web-based applications that can help them [...]

Spanning Adds Gmail Backup To Its Google Apps Backup Service

Austin, Texas-based startup Spanning launched a new version of its Google Apps backup service today, which now includes business-grade backup for Gmail. Previously, the company provided backup for other Google Apps products, including Google Calendar, Docs, and Contacts, but, says, Spanning Cloud Apps founder and CEO Charlie Wood, “Gmail backup has been, by far, the [...]

Seesmic Focuses On The Social Enterprise; Debuts Android, iPad Apps For Salesforce CRM

Social application developer Seesmic is making a big move into the social enterprise and is debuting a dedicated Android app and iPad app for Salesforce’s CRM product (Windows Phone 7 will also be added soon), called Seesmic CRM. The Android app will be launched tomorrow morning at Salesforce’s annual conference, Dreamforce, and Seesmic will launch [...]

Box.net Bets On HTML5 For New Mobile Site; Launches PlayBook And Android Tablet Apps

Box.net’s CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie has been open about his belief that mobile is a key pillar to the cloud storage company’s future. The company already offers native apps for a number of platforms, including Android, iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry, but the company’s mobile site was lacking in functionality. Which is why Box has [...]

Cloud Sherpas Upgrades Google Apps Management App With New Features

Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps reseller that also helps enterprises migrate to and manage the productivity suite, is announcing a milestone today and is upgrading its offering with a number of new features. Cloud Sherpas not only helps companies migrate and transition over to Google Apps but also provides additional tools, called Sherpa Tools, to [...]

Google Turns Dozens Of Its Consumer Products Into Enterprise Apps

Earlier this year, Google announced that it would be rolling out Apps interactivity with iGoogle, YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, and other products in the Google family. Today the search giant is making over 60 of its homegrown products available for a deep integration for all types of Google Apps accounts. Services like Google Voice, Reader, Analytics [...]

Widgetbox Mobile Launches, Create Mobile Web Apps In A Snap

Forget Android, iOS and the rest of the mobile operating systems. Sometimes you don’t need to spend weeks building the sleekest mobile apps for native environments. And depending on your business, something a little bit more quick and simple can do the job just fine. That’s the theory behind Widgetbox Mobile, a new offering from [...]

Google Apps Now In A New York State Of Mind

Google sees the adoption of Google Apps at schools and colleges as vital to the growth of the productivity suite; an outlook that Microsoft also seems to emulate as well. The strategy makes sense; not only do educational institutions represent a huge market for Google Apps and other productivity suites, but schools and colleges are [...]