Thursday September 9, 2010

Yottaa Raises $4 Million For Web Performance And Analytics Platform

Yottaa, web analytics and performance platform, has raised $4 million in series A funding from General Catalyst Partners, Stata Venture Partners and Cambridge West Ventures.
Co-founded by chairman of Nexaweb, Coach Wei, Yottaa offers a free service that monitors and tracks web site performance. The company’s first product, Yottaa Insight, is being released to the [...]

Marin Software Integrates Facebook Ads Into Paid Search Management Platform

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 [...]

PiCloud Launches Serverless Computing Platform To The Public

Startup PiCloud is launching its platform to the public that allows for batch processing, high performance computing and scientific computing applications. PiCloud, which was incubated at Lightspeed Ventures, claims to “obviates servers,” and enables developers, scientists and engineers to set up applications on the cloud easily.
The PiCloud platform aims to simplify cloud computing through [...]

Skydera Launches Cloud Management Platform (100 Invites)

As more enterprises and SMBs flock to the cloud, the need for cost-effective management platforms has increased. Cloud management startup Skydera is launching today as a centralized platform to manage multiple cloud environments. Incubated in the Founder Institute, Skydera is a platform to manage servers, deploy applications, control user access, track usage and centralize billing. [...]

Cloud Platform Startup Morphlabs Raises $5.5 Million

Cloud Platform startup Morphlabs has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding led by Global Gateway Investment Group with Frontera Group, CSK Venture Capital, and AO Capital Partners participating. This brings the company’s total funding to $7 million.
Morph Labs offers a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that virtualizes the application environment through the use [...]

3Crowd Launches Cloud Management Platform CrowdDirector To The Public

3Crowd, a startup that provides management tools for cloud-based services, is announcing the public availability of its platform, CrowdDirector.
Founded by BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, 3Crowd’s management tools give enterprises greater controls over content delivery and other cloud services, enabling them to use multiple services at once.
CrowdDirector serves as a content load balancer on [...]

Cisco Unveils Hosted Platform To Deploy Collaboration Applications In The Cloud

Cisco is launching a new Hosted Collaboration platform today, which allows partners to provide a wide range of Cisco collaboration applications, such as WebEx, an enterprise focused messaging platform, a contact center and more, to their customers via the cloud.
The Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution gives customers the ability to deploy multiple collaboration applications on [...]

Conductor Launches SEO Platform Searchlight To The Public

Conductor, a New York-based provider of SEO measurement and optimization solutions, has publicly launched Conductor Searchlight, the startup’s search engine optimization (SEO) operating system. The platform was previously in private beta and has been used by 30 companies, including Siemans, over the past few months.
Conductor markets technology which aims to empower online marketers and interactive [...]

Socialwok Adds A Collaboration Platform To Microsoft Outlook

Socialwok, a product that ads a social layer to Gmail and other Google products, is spreading its wings beyond the search giant to Microsoft land. Today, the startup, which launched its Google Apps-focused product at TechCrunch50 last year, is rolling out the Socialwok Social Connector for Microsoft Office Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003.
Similar to the layer [...]

Salesforce And VMware Partner To Launch Enterprise Java Cloud Platform VMforce

Java developers may have good news to celebrate today. Salesforce.com and virtualization giant VMware are partnering to launch VMforce, a enterprise Java Cloud platform to enable Java developers to build apps off of Force.com. Salesforce is leveraging the Java development framework which was acquired by VMware when the company bought SpringSource for $420 million. SpringSource [...]