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There are a plethora of enterprise friendly collaboration platforms to choose from these days, with Yammer, Salesforce, Jive, Bantam Live, Socialcast, and others all vying for marketshare. All of the offerings are compelling but now more than ever, the startups and companies that develop these platforms are facing pressure to make their offerings the most [...]
Wed, March 3 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Alright, lets pat the pockets and run through the mental checklist one last time before security: Passport? Check, front pocket. Headphones? Definitely in your backpack. Boarding pass? Uh oh. Where’d that boarding pass go?
Oh, that’s right! It’s on your phone – because you, like a rapidly increasing number of other people, opted to have it [...]
Wed, March 3 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Mobile ad network Mobclix has made its first acquisition. The startup is buying up Heartbeat, a cloud-based SaaS that helps iPhone app developers manage and access sales data, crash reporting, ongoing hourly usage stats, reviews and rankings. The acquisition price was not disclosed.
Mobclix bought Heartbeat from app developer Enormego, which launched the software in [...]
Tue, March 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Enterprise content management juggernaut Open Text has bought content analysis startup Nstein Technologies for $34 million. Nstein’s Text Mining Engine helps businesses centralize, understand and manage content through semantic and text analysis.
For example, Nstein powers the backend of The Financial Times’ semantic search engine, called Newssift, that indexes about 4,000 business news sources, from [...]
Mon, February 22 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
HipLogic’s smartphone interface for non-smartphones recently made news when the startup rolled out a consumer version of its downloadable application that delivers content—including Facebook, Twitter, CBS news, CBS sports, and weather—to select Windows Mobile or Symbian devices. HipLogic is centered around the promise to bring the feel of an iPhone interface and app store [...]
Fri, February 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
A few weeks ago, Kelly Porter, an M&A expert at Woodside Capital Partners, predicted on TechCrunch that TwitJump, a Twitter management tool for businesses, would be acquired by Twitter or another startup. Well, Porter’s prophecy ended up becoming a reality, except that the buyer isn’t Twitter. FundingUniverse, a matchmaker that connects entrepreneurs with [...]
Thu, February 11 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
