Yesterday in San Francisco, AngelPad held its 10th Demo Day, a graduation of sorts for the enterprise startups admitted into and backed by the accelerator. The accelerator, run by husband and wife team Thomas Korte and Carine Magescas, has realized at least one solid exit already in the adtech startup MoPub, which sold to Twitter for […]
Posted on June 9th, 2016 by admin
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Let’s face it. Some tech conferences have lost their way. While TechCrunch Disrupt remains a firmly curated, media-driven, event, with hundreds of journalists attending, a couple of other conferences have really gone for scale. A minimum of 15,000 people, thousands of companies, echoing halls — and a lot of investors (and journalists) turning their badges […]
Posted on May 21st, 2016 by admin
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Let’s face it. Some tech conferences have lost their way. While TechCrunch Disrupt remains a firmly curated, media-driven, event, with hundreds of journalists attending, a couple of other conferences have really gone for scale. A minimum of 15,000 people, thousands of companies, echoing halls — and a lot of investors (and journalists) turning their badges […]
Posted on May 20th, 2016 by admin
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Let’s face it. Some tech conferences have lost their way. While TechCrunch Disrupt remains a firmly curated, media-driven, event, with hundreds of journalists attending, a couple of other conferences have really gone for scale. A minimum of 15,000 people, thousands of companies, echoing halls — and a lot of investors (and journalists) turning their badges […]
Posted on May 20th, 2016 by admin
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Tableau announced today that it has acquired HyPer, an early-stage German startup born in academia that has developed an advanced database technology. Tableau intends to incorporate the technology into its product set. Tableau is a business intelligence and analytics company, taking business data and helping companies make sense of it. The new HyPer database technology should provide a… Read More […]
Posted on March 12th, 2016 by admin
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AppDirect, the well-funded marketplace for selling cloud services, today announced that it has acquired the Montreal-based tech support company Radialpoint. Based on this acquisition, AppDirect also today announced the launch of a number of premium support options. These include premium support for Microsoft’s Office 365, as well as a cloud and IT helpdesk, and a new […]
Posted on January 30th, 2016 by admin
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Startups are created to solve problems—but that doesn’t matter if the people they want to help don’t know they exist. Iterate Studio was created to match retail companies with startups that have promising technology, but it doesn’t just serve as a matchmaker. Its new cloud-based platform also integrates with popular commerce software and A/B testing […]
Posted on January 23rd, 2016 by admin
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Technology companies, particularly those with an enterprise bent, appear to be coming under increasing pressure from activist investors who want to squeeze out profits at the cost of products and jobs. Last year EMC pressed by an activist investor eventually sold the company to Dell for $67 billion. Citrix is the latest company facing this issue […]
Posted on January 13th, 2016 by admin
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Enormous tech M&A deals have been announced recently: EMC/Dell, WDC/SanDisk, Lam-Research/KLC-Tencor. These follow a very busy year of large tech M&A, with Avago/Broadcom, Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent and Intel/Altera. This year is shaping up to be a record one for M&A activity across all industries. However, with the large number of multi-billion dollar mergers, there is a nagging… […]
Posted on November 23rd, 2015 by admin
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We are in the midst of a tectonic shift in enterprise technology as the cloud has an ever-growing impact on how businesses provision infrastructure and software. Established vendors used to selling copious amounts of hardware and software have been experimenting with various strategies to deal with a rapidly changing marketplace. This has taken several forms including getting bigger,… Read […]
Posted on November 9th, 2015 by admin
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