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TechCrunch’s Disrupt Battlefield: Increasing Understanding

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From Monday to Wednesday in San Francisco, TechCrunch’s latest Disrupt Start-up Battlefield competition is showcasing entrepreneurs from 30 start-ups, all vying for a $50,000 prize by making six-minute-long pitches to a rotating panel of venture capitalists, tech influencers, angel investors and Silicon Valley players. Tuesday featured three more sessions of Start-up Battlefield, titled Customer-Friendly Enterprise, Local Networks and Increasing Understanding; here are the start-ups presented in session six: Increasing Understanding. READ MORE »

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TechCrunch’s Disrupt Battlefield: Customer-Friendly Enterprise

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From Monday to Wednesday in San Francisco, TechCrunch’s latest Disrupt Start-up Battlefield competition is showcasing entrepreneurs from 30 start-ups, all vying for a $50,000 prize by making six-minute-long pitches to a rotating panel of venture capitalists, tech influencers, angel investors and Silicon Valley players. Tuesday featured three more sessions of Start-up Battlefield, titled Customer-Friendly Enterprise, Local Networks and Increasing Understanding; here are the start-ups presented in session four: Customer-Friendly Enterprise. READ MORE »

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Dome9 is Latest Company Moving Toward Cloud Security

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Last week we heard about a new bill coming through the Senate now that, if passed, could carry hefty fines for any company that loses online data. Luckily, security companies like Dome9 keep popping up, looking to make your cloud doesn’t burst. READ MORE »

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TechCrunch’s Disrupt Battlefield: Moving the Web Forward

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From Monday to Wednesday in San Francisco, TechCrunch’s latest Disrupt Start-up Battlefield competition will showcase entrepreneurs from 30 start-ups vying for a $50,000 prize by making six-minute-long quick pitches to a rotating panel of venture capitalists, tech influencers, angel investors and Silicon Valley players. Monday featured three sessions of Start-up Battlefield, titled Disrupting Traditional Markets, Moving the Web Forward and Entertain Us; here are the start-ups presented in session two, Moving the Web Forward. READ MORE »

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TechCrunch’s Disrupt Battlefield: Products, Services for Untapped Markets

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From Monday to Wednesday in San Francisco, TechCrunch’s latest Disrupt Start-up Battlefield competition will showcase entrepreneurs from 30 start-ups vying for a $50,000 prize by making six-minute-long quick pitches to a rotating panel of venture capitalists, tech influencers, angel investors and Silicon Valley players. Monday featured three sessions of Start-up Battlefield, titled Disrupting Traditional Markets, Moving the Web Forward and Entertain Us; here are the start-ups presented in session one, Disrupting Traditional Markets. READ MORE »

About 615 days ago Business Software | Cloud Computing

Google Docs, Microsoft Office 365 Outages Underscore Need for Backup Plan

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“The cloud is falling! The cloud is falling! No, seriously. It keeps falling,” wrote PCWorld’s Tony Bradley in a post the other day about how some popular cloud services were recently down. In a weird coincidence, last Wednesday Microsoft’s Office 365 and SkyDrive and Google Docs were all hit by outages, with some customers saying they lost access to e-mail and other services for up to four hours. READ MORE »

About 619 days ago Business Software | Cloud Computing | Servers and Routers

Moving to the Cloud? Ask These 5 Questions First

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If you’re planning to move from on-premise hardware and applications to a hosted cloud platform, you need to ask some tough questions before signing a contract. READ MORE »

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IBM Pledges $1 Billion in Financing for SMBs

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IBM has pledged $1 billion in financing to help SMBs procure certain IBM offerings, such as cloud services, big data and analytic systems. The financing will be available over the next 18 months and can be approved within 60 seconds, the company says. Customers will typically repay the loans over 36 months with interest rates as low as 0 percent for 12 months, with no money down. READ MORE »

About 620 days ago Cloud Computing

Dropbox Raises $250 to $300 Million in Third Funding Round

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Count this as another sign that our entire lives will soon take place in the clouds. DropBox will soon close a financing round that’ll bring in $250 million to $300 million. The funding involves a number of investors, including Index Ventures and Goldman Sachs, and will value the cloud-computing firm at nearly $4 billion. READ MORE »

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Intuit Announces Salesforce for QuickBooks, QuickBooks 2012

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Earlier this year, popular CRM provider Salesforce, which offers on the cloud everything from marketing automation, a contact database, customer service, social media monitoring and engagement, analytics and forecasting and more, announced an alliance with Intuit. READ MORE »