Even if you’ve updated your computer systems lately, you’re likely still using old computer software to manage your supply chain. (This is where you minimize this window, click open your program, and everything freezes.) After you’ve hit control-alt-delete, check this: Kenandy, a year-old start-up, made a surprise announcement that it raised $10.5 million and created new supply-chain software that’s based off social networking and housed in cloud computing on Salesforce.com. READ MORE
Bill.com has launched a new set of electronic billing features that help businesses and accountants make it easier for customers to pay their bills, online or offline. READ MORE
Intuit, the financial solutions company behind management software like Quicken and Quickbooks, has publicly launched Brainstorm, its web-based collaboration tool that offers a simple and intuitive interface to map out company-wide brainstorms for new ideas, challenges, and pipelines. READ MORE
For years enterprise software vendors have been selling to CIOs expensive and complex systems that employees don’t like, can’t figure out, and underuse, which is ultimately a waste of money, writes Box.net CEO Aaron Levie for TechCrunch. That’s changing, he says, due to web-delivered, freemium or open-sourced solutions that employees start using on their own, resulting in viral, bottom-up adoption of technology across organizations of all sizes. READ MORE
Small business owners need an online presence to survive these days, but regulating a website becomes difficult when you don’t know a lick of HTML. Targeting this demographic, Intuit has announced the latest upgrade to its Intuit Websites platform, providing tools that make it drop-dead simple to create websites and boost online visibility. READ MORE
In this quick-moving Internet age, start-ups shouldn’t have to wait six weeks to discuss their progress with investors over a long mahogany table. Board meetings are extremely inefficient, especially for start-ups, so entrepreneur Steve Blank sought out an answer by meeting with Ben Mappen, the founder and coder for online developer directory Techcofounder. READ MORE
Concur, provider of services for travel and expense management, announced this morning that the company will be offering a bundled program that it says will help small businesses better manage travel itineraries and expense accounting. This integrated system, which combines the expense report capabilities of Concur Breeze and the itinerary services of TripIt Pro, will help small businesses solve a long-standing problem, according to Raj Singh, President and COO of Concur. READ MORE
Monday through Wednesday in New York City TechCrunch is holding its Disrupt Battlefield competition in which hopeful founders and entrepreneurs submit their young, unseen start-up companies for the opportunity to try winning a $50,000 prize while launching in front of an all-star panel made up of innovators, angel investors, venture capitalists and tech influencers. Tuesday featured three Battlefields: Disrupting the Real World, Disrupting the Enterprise and Disrupting Streams and Collaborations. These start-ups made presentations in the Disrupting the Enterprise category: READ MORE
First, Square revolutionized how we send and receive credit card payments; now, the mobile payments start-up based in San Francisco is looking to replace the cash register altogether. GigaOM reports that Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter and co-founder of Square, has released his two latest creations—the Square Register for merchants, and the Square Card Holder for consumers. READ MORE
Pageonce, a service that lets you track and manage your finances via your smartphone, announced yesterday that it has raised $15 million more in funding, bringing their total to $25 million. The start-up will use this new money to expand and reach its ultimate goal: to become the one-stop app for managing all of your cash, credit, and bills. READ MORE
