Monday February 6, 2012

Cloud Computing Software Company Joyent Raises $85 Million To Pursue Global Growth

Cloud computing software and service provider Joyent has secured an $85 million round of new funding, the company is announcing today. The round was led by European group Weather Investment II. It also included Telefónica Digital, the growth arm of global telecom giant Telefónica, which participated as a strategic investor. Weather II is a strategic shareholder in telecommunications [...]

DeskStream Acquires Irish Cloud And Virtualization Software Startup WorldDesk

US-based desktop virtualization software maker DeskStream has acquired Northern Irish cloud start-up WorldDesk, the companies are set to announce today at CES in Las Vegas. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close this quarter, were not disclosed. Interestingly, the acquisition will see DeskStream adopt the WorldDesk name and branding. Read more at TechCrunch [...]

RJMetrics Raises $1.2M For Hosted Business Intelligence Software Suite

Exclusive – I first learned about hosted business intelligence software startup RJMetrics a few weeks ago, when Fab.com founder Jason Goldberg wrote how he made creative use of their software suite for his latest fundraising round; in fact he said he liked it so much he asked to invest in the company. Fast forward to [...]

Lithium Raises $53.4M Fourth Round To Push For Lead In Social Brand Software

Big consumer brands generate all sorts of consumer interest and expertise, but they’ve generally struggled to capitalize on these relationships to improve themselves. Lithium has been building itself into a market leader at solving this problem over the last ten years, offering white-label community sites and related products that allow brands to let users share [...]

uTest Helps Developers Build Better Software, Raises $17 Million

uTest, which provides software developers with a variety of testing services for their Web, desktop and mobile applications, has raised $17 million in Series D funding in a round led by QuestMark Partners. The new capital will be used to launch new tools to aid developers, and to open more offices in the United States [...]

HP Acquires German Web-To-Print Software Solutions Company HIFLEX

Hewlett-Packard has acquired a German company called HIFLEX, based in Aachen, which develops software that helps companies in the print and media industries automate their business and technical processes. HIFLEX products include HIFLEX MIS (Management Information System), HIFLEX Print Support and an open web-to-print system dubbed HIFLEX Webshop. Read more at TechCrunch Europe. Tweet This [...]

Salesforce, Asana And The War For The Future Of Enterprise Software

Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Dan Kaplan, who leads Product Marketing for Twilio and writes occasionally about the extrapolation of the present into the future. Before Twilio, he worked as a contractor in Product Marketing for Salesforce. Follow him @dankaplan or find him on Quora. You’ve got to hand it to Salesforce: [...]

AVG Acquires ‘Online Family Protection’ Software Maker Bsecure

Bsecure, a provider of online family protection software, has been acquired by Internet and mobile security giant AVG Technologies. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Bsecure says it has provided cloud-based technology and parent controls software in the Internet filtering industry since 2001. The company has long been a partner of AVG partner [...]

Following Adobe Partnership, OptiMine Lands $3.6M For Keyword Bid Optimization Software

On the heels of inking a major partnership agreement with Adobe, OptiMine Software has secured $3.6 million in a Series B round of funding led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Perhaps the investor is looking to pull off another Omniture (the VC firm invested early in the web analytics and search marketing software company, which [...]

GramercyOne Raises $14.5M From Revolution, Others For Cloud-based Business Management Software

GramercyOne, a New York City-based provider of cloud-based business management and marketing software, has secured $14.5 million in Series A financing. The funding round was led by Revolution Ventures (which is chaired by AOL founder Steve Case) with participation from Grotech Ventures, TDF and Jubilee Investments. Launched in 2010, GramercyOne offers a product called Booker [...]