Tuesday February 7, 2012

Cloud Storage Company Box.net Launches Cross-Platform Sync; Salesforce Chatter Integration And More

At the company’s first customer conference today, cloud storage platform Box.net is revealing a number of new features and products. The company is debuting a cross-platform enterprise sync solution for both Mac and PC devices, additional security features as well as new social capabilities.   For background, Box, which has 7 million users and stores [...]

CloudFlare Turns One; Launches IPv6 Gateway To Let Websites ‘Join The Modern Internet’ For Free

Put one big, fat candle on the cake. One year ago today, a startup named CloudFlare launched on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, where the startup placed second to Qwiki. (You can read our initial coverage here.) For those unfamiliar with CloudFlare, the startup offers a free service designed to not only boost [...]

YC-backed Crowdbooster Launches Social Media Monitoring Dashboard That Does The Thinking For You

Crowdbooster, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is debuting its intelligent social media optimization, monitoring and analytics platform for companies and brands. What differentiates Crowdbooster from other monitoring platforms is that the startup’s technology works behind the scenes to understand a user’s social activity, and then makes recommendations about what to share, when, and with whom. The [...]

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 [...]

Cloudera Now Certifies Companies For Apache Hadoop; Launches Partner Program

Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, is announcing a comprehensive partner program today for the companies that use its services. Hadoop is a Java software framework born out of an open-source implementation of Google’s published computing infrastructure which is fostered within the Apache Software Foundation. [...]

Cloudera Launches Version 3 Of Enterprise Data Management Software

Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, is announcing the general availability of Cloudera’s enterpirse data management software. Hadoop is a Java software framework born out of an open-source implementation of Google’s published computing infrastructure which is fostered within the Apache Software Foundation. Hadoop supports distributed [...]

Broadvision Launches Clearvale 2.0

BroadVision is launching a new version of Clearvale, a “networks of networks” for the social enterprise. Launched to the public earlier this year, Clearvale provides businesses with the tools, and infrastructure to instantly create enterprise social networks, while also being able to connect with other social networks on the platform. The Clearvale gives businesses a [...]

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 [...]

Cloud Storage Startup Box.net Launches Android App; BlackBerry App In The Works

Cloud-based storage and sharing application Box.net has bet big on iOS apps so far, and has seen considerable traction with its iPad and iPhone apps. Since launch, Box.net has seen 200,000 downloads of its iPhone and iPad apps, and topped 1 million content previews on mobile in the second quarter of 2010. Today, Box is [...]

Google Analytics For APIs Apigee Launches Premium Products

We’ve written about Apigee, which offers Web developers and publishers a dashboard for managing both the APIs they provide to others and the ones they consume for themselves. It’s essentially a Google Analytics for APIs. For developers who rely on data from other sites and companies, it monitors how much data they are using (message [...]