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Potentially Serious Vulnerability Proven in Popular HTC Android Phones

A security hole affecting some of HTC’s most popular Android phones, including the Thunderbolt and EVO 4G, could give apps with Internet permissions access to key user data such as email address, location and even text messages. READ MORE »

TechCrunch Disrupt’s Battlefield: And the Winner is …

In the end, after three days and 31 start-up pitches, judge’s panels and interviews, there could be but one winner of TechCrunch Disrupt SF’s Start-up Battlefield. That title, plus a prize of $50,000 and the Disrupt Cup presented by Disrupt Battlefield NY winners Getaround, goes to … Shaker. READ MORE »

TechCrunch’s Disrupt Battlefield: Moving the Web Forward

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 »

IBM Pledges $1 Billion in Financing for SMBs

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 »

Intuit Announces Salesforce for QuickBooks, QuickBooks 2012

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 »

A Fresh Look at Google Docs

If you’re not a heavy Google Docs user you probably aren’t familiar with how the service has evolved in the two years it’s been out of beta and how you could be putting the free Web-based office suite to use for your business. If that description fits you, you’re in luck. Howard Wen, writing for Computerworld, recently wrote a thorough review of Google Docs features and functions. READ MORE »

Fishbowl Adds POS Function to its Software

Fishbowl announced the release of SalesPoint, a new point of sale (POS) software add-on to Fishbowl Inventory, a popular addition to QuickBooks that helps companies manage their inventory. SalesPoint integrates with Fishbowl Inventory to track a product from the time it enters a warehouse to the time it leaves in a customer’s hands. The Utah-based company says the integration eliminates time loss and errors due to double entry and typing product information. READ MORE »

Something New: Enterprise Software That Doesn’t Suck

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 »

Investors Flock to See TechStars’ 12 Cool New Start-ups

Seed fund and accelerator TechStars put on its “Demo Day” in Boston to present 12 new companies to more than 350 VC and angel investors. TechCrunch’s Rip Empson says in the last five years TechStars has grown significantly in both size and reputation, and the accelerator says seven of the first 20 companies to go through its program have been acquired by larger companies, and about 70 percent of its companies have raised follow-on funding or have since become profitable. READ MORE »

Wolfram Alpha Turns Two

Instead of looking for terms that show up in web pages, Wolfram Alpha is a search engine that actually does computations to answer queries. For instance, let’s say you want to know the basal metabolic rate of a 35-year-old woman who is 5’5” and weighs 125 pounds. In a snap Wolfram Alpha will tell you she needs anywhere from 1,562 to 2,474 calories a day, depending on her activity level. READ MORE »

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Potentially Serious Vulnerability Proven in Popular HTC Android Phones

IBM Pledges $1 Billion in Financing for SMBs

Intuit Announces Salesforce for QuickBooks, QuickBooks 2012

A Fresh Look at Google Docs

Fishbowl Adds POS Function to its Software

Something New: Enterprise Software That Doesn’t Suck

Investors Flock to See TechStars’ 12 Cool New Start-ups

Wolfram Alpha Turns Two

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