“We’re at an inflection point”, eBay CEO John Donahoe said from the stage at Innovate, eBay’s brand new developer conference that launched today in San Francisco. “We’ll see more change in how consumers shop and pay in the next three years than we’ve seen in the last 15 years”. Donahoe’s prediction for the future came [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2011 by admin
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Mindshare Technologies, the provider of survey technologies and realtime customer feedback solutions, announced today that it has received a $20 million investment from Sorenson Capital, a private equity firm that specializes in buyout and growth equity investments. The PrivateBank and Trust Company also contributed to the investment, which will be used to accelerate product growth [...]
Posted on October 4th, 2011 by admin
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Enterprise social networking platform Yammer is expanding the reach of its network today, launching Yammer Connect. The new plug-ins allows users to bring their Yammer identity to other business applications and an Embed feature enables companies to embed Yammer feeds into their intranet or other apps. Using a JavaScript API, developers can add the Yammer [...]
Posted on August 25th, 2011 by admin
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Japan’s mobile carriers are currently releasing a number of interesting handsets, which are all part of their summer 2011 line-up. While smartphones, the iPhone and Android in particular, are taking over the Japanese market, there are still some cool feature phones coming out, too. Case in point: the Casio CA-01C [JP], which NTT Docomo (Japan’s [...]
Posted on July 21st, 2011 by admin
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AppSense, which specializes in what it calls ‘user virtualization’ solutions, has raised $70 million in its very first round of funding. Interestingly, the entire investment comes from one backer, Goldman Sachs, whose managing director Pete Perrone will be joining the company’s board of directors. AppSense says it will use the funds to “capitalize on its [...]
Posted on February 23rd, 2011 by admin
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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 [...]
Posted on November 19th, 2010 by admin
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When the media calls you “The Next PayPal,” you can bet the real PayPal will come a’knocking. Or throw fistfuls of cash in your direction. According to a reliable source with knowledge of the transaction, e-invoicing company, TradeShift has just secured between €12 to €15 million euros from PayPal ($16 to $21 M dollars). The [...]
Posted on October 12th, 2010 by admin
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Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Dunedin-based Global Marketing Resources, Inc. – developer of the KABUUM™ online interaction platform – has announced the creation of at least 10 high tech jobs in Tampa Bay. The US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in the past 12 months, Information Technology jobs in the metro area of [...]
Posted on October 5th, 2010 by admin
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Marin Software, a startup that creates search engine management software for advertisers and agencies, is now offering advanced applications for advertising on Facebook. Marin’s Search Marketer platform now offers advertisers and agencies the ability to manage Facebook Ads alongside paid search programs on Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. Advanced solutions for Facebook include algorithmic bidding, audience [...]
Posted on August 17th, 2010 by admin
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In today’s high-risk world, foreseeing potential problems and eliminating them before they happen is the ideal many executives strive toward. As business environments move at a rapid pace, making the most of the increased volumes of available market and customer data has become business critical, a new report from management consultancy Arthur D. Little warns. [...]
Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by admin
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