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API-Based Money Mover Currency Cloud Taps Sapphire Ventures And Rakuten For $18M
Startups that help people send money to each other or pay for goods and services online have been growing like weeds, fuelled by consumer demand, increasingly ubiquitous connected devices to make and receive the funds, and VCs eager to profit from their growth. Now a startup that has built technology to power fintech startups is raising some money of its own. Currency Cloud, a UK-based… Read More
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Box Governance Designed To Attract Regulated Industries To Cloud
Today Box announced it is releasing Box Governance, its governance tools, from Beta to general availability, making three tools available today. The announcement itself is really less important than what it represents as the company has tried to transform content management from a monolithic and often obtuse on-premises system into a cloud-based digital tool. The goal and challenge for… Read More
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First Salesforce Wave Analytics App Washes Ashore
Salesforce announced a new Wave analytics app today called Sales Wave Analytics, the first in a line of what the company is calling ‘role-based’ packaged apps for the Wave platform. First, some context because all of this Wave talk can get a bit confusing. Last fall, Salesforce introduced Wave, which was a platform for the company’s analytics business moving forward. With… Read More
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Tidemark Continues To Sail Along With $25M In New Funding
Tidemark, the cloud financial planning platform announced $25 million in additional funding today along with some new growth numbers.
Existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Tenaya Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank all participated in the round along with new investor, fellow cloud company Workday.
Today’s investment brings the total raised to $100… Read More
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Deutsche Telekom Ties Up With Huawei In Growing Amazon/Google Cloud Rivalry
Are we headed for yet more price wars in the world of cloud computing? Amazon and Google have made huge inroads into the market on the back of deep discounts and generous storage allowances, and as a measure of their competitive threat, today one of the bigger and older incumbents out of Europe announced a partnership that it hopes will help it fight back. Germany’s Deutsche… Read More
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Microsoft Acquires Application Management Service BlueStripe
Microsoft today announced that it has acquired BlueStripe, an application management service that helps enterprises monitor and troubleshoot applications that have been deployed across different operating systems, data centers and cloud environments. Microsoft says it will integrate the service into tools like System Center and the company’s Operations Management Suite. Read More
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Apple Stresses User Privacy At WWDC
Apple is continuing to put blue water between itself and data-mining mobile rivals such as Google by engineering its services with a clear focus on user privacy.
At Apple’s WWDC developer conference today, senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi showed off an update to its Siri voice assistant, called Proactive, which will offer some Google Now-esque predictive… Read More
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Dropbox Adds More Features To Attract Enterprise Customers
Dropbox announced several updates today designed to appeal to larger enterprise customers and make them feel more comfortable using Dropbox for Business. Dropbox faces a huge challenge with enterprise customers. Sure, it cites some big numbers in terms of current users, claiming 100,000 Dropbox for Business users including high profile clients like MIT and Hard Rock Cafe. Yet it’s… Read More
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LogMeIn Buys Zamurai For $6M To Add Mobile Whiteboarding To Join.Me
LogMeIn has made one more acquisition to build out the features of its online collaboration and meeting app join.me: it has bought Zamurai, a San Francisco-based startup that had built a popular whiteboard app for the iPad. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed but we understand and have had confirmed by sources that it was a small acquisition worth $6 million — in fact a… Read More
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Alibaba Invests $194M Into China Business News To Build A Financial Data Platform
Alibaba, the Chinese internet giant, is currently focused on investing internationally to grow its business, but is also continuing to build out operations at home. In the latest move, it has invested $193.6 million (RMB1.2 billion) into China Business News to create a new financial data and information services company. “The era of Data Technology is here and it will surpass the… Read More
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