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Steve D. Jones, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Enterprise on April 30 at 1:45 pm PT
Much has been made of the rivalry between Oracle Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. in cloud computing. But last week a venture-backed start-up secured one of the richest contracts in business for software to manage sales, marketing and customer relationships.
Liz Gannes in News on March 29 at 12:11 pm PT
Everything.me, a mobile search provider, has taken $3.5 million in add-on funding from Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures, known for tech investments like Facebook and Spotify.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 29 at 11:58 am PT
The rumors are true. But, boy, were they ever off on the numbers.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 27, 2011 at 12:28 pm PT
There’s now a body of social search intellectual property that three companies have the rights to use: Google, Facebook and a virtually unknown start-up named Jildy.
Liz Gannes in Social on July 21, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
Social search start-up Wowd has shut down, with Facebook “acqhiring” seven of its engineers and licensing its technology, another company outright buying its patents, and the founder starting a new company based on some of the same ideas.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 14, 2011 at 7:49 am PT
The fast-moving, enterprise-focused file-sharing service makes a big mobile push and makes a key hire from Yahoo to manage developer relations.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on June 27, 2011 at 2:50 pm PT
ViVOtech, one of the software and hardware providers behind Google’s mobile payments initiative, has raised $24 million to top off its third round of funding.
Liz Gannes in Social on May 26, 2011 at 10:09 am PT
Former Myspace Music CTO Dmitry Shapiro has raised about $1 million in funding from investors including Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Myspace founder Tom Anderson to launch a privacy-conscious alternative to Facebook named (for the moment) Altly.
Liz Gannes in Mobile on May 23, 2011 at 10:30 am PT
Do@ launches today a mobile search application for the iPhone that tries to minimize the time and effort needed to find information while using a phone.
Kara Swisher in News on May 4, 2011 at 5:27 am PT
CafeMom, a social-networking and community site aimed at mothers, is expanding its offerings to daily deals, as well as announcing an anticipated launch of a site aimed at Hispanic moms.
The deals site has just been launched under the killer URL of Mom.com.
