Marketo, a company that provides an on-demand marketing software that allows businesses to optimize their sales and marketing efforts, is launching a new product today tailored to small businesses. Similar to Marketo’s SaaS for the enterprise, Spark aims to help businesses create revenue via channels like e-mail, lead generation, and optimization of site visits. Spark [...]
Posted on October 16th, 2011 by admin
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Joyent, a San Francisco-based cloud computing software and service provider, has secured $5 million in debt funding according to an SEC filing. The company, which was founded back in 2004, offers an integrated technology suite and related services geared towards service providers, medium-sized and large enterprises, and developers. Its offerings include cloud software suite SmartDataCenter, [...]
Posted on September 27th, 2011 by admin
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Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) this morning announced that it has acquired India’s AppLabs, a provider of software testing and quality management services. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition is meant to grow CSC’s applications development and management business as well as extending software testing and quality management services to its clients. [...]
Posted on September 14th, 2011 by admin
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Qosmos, a Paris, France-based network intelligence technology company, has raised close to €20 million euros (approximately $28.5 million) in a deal that was co-led by DFJ Esprit and FSI, a French government fund. The deal, which closed at the end of last month, is a combination of primary equity and debt and a secondary purchase [...]
Posted on September 9th, 2011 by admin
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Joining recent tech companies MobiTV, Angie’s List, Brightcove, and Jive; Guidewire Software, a company that develops technologies for the insurance industry, has filed its S-1. The company aims to raise as much as $100 million in a public offering under the symbol “GWRE.” Founded in 2001, Guidewire Software provides technology software to the property, casualty, [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2011 by admin
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Cisco this morning announced that it has acquired San Francisco startup Versly, a privately-held company that develops collaboration tools that integrate with Microsoft Office applications. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but all Versly employees will be integrated into Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group (CSG) upon the close of the acquisition. Versly builds plug-ins [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2011 by admin
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IBM is announcing the acquisition of i2, a company that provides intelligence and investigation management software for law enforcement, defense, national security and private sector organizations. Financial terms were not disclosed. With more than 4,500 customers in 150 countries, i2 is provides intelligence analytics for crime and fraud prevention in sectors such as banking, defense, [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2011 by admin
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GraphOn, a developer of cloud application delivery solutions, this morning announced that it has secured $7.1 million in equity financing in a private placement to a group of investors, employing intellectual property investment bank MDB Capital Group as its sole agent. GraphOn sold 35.5 million shares of its common stock at $0.20 per share. GraphOn [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2011 by admin
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Visier, which builds ‘analytic applications for human resources’, has raised $6 million in funding according to an SEC filing published this morning. It’s the startup’s first institutional venture funding round since its inception in 2010. Notably, Visier was co-founded by ex-Business Objectives chief and SAP exec John Schwarz (CEO) and Ryan Wong (CTO), who held [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2011 by admin
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Cisco this morning announced its intent to purchase service fulfillment software assets and associated employees from the UK subsidiary of partner company Comptel, for 21.3 million euros or roughly $31 million in cash. Axioss is a fulfillment solution developed by Axiom Systems, a company that Comptel acquired back in 2008. With the acquisition, Cisco hopes [...]
Posted on August 27th, 2011 by admin
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