This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. A new ebook to help users of Rackspace setup and manage their cloud-based...
Banjo Wants to Bring Social + Location to the Mainstream Banjo has three main goals. One is to connect you to your social networking friends you didn’t know were nearby – for example, a friend from Facebook or Twitter, killing time at the airport, only a few gates away from you. It also wants...
SlideShare fans on LinkedIn, today is good news for you. The two companies are taking their partnership a step deeper, with more native-style integration for SlideShare content inside of LinkedIn. SlideShare, in case you’ve missed it, has managed to get itself quite the following. It is one of the top 200 sites on the...
A French software company with U.S. headquarters in Chicago, Enablon, has raised a series A round of $15 million from the Environmental Technology Fund (ETF) in the U.K. Enablon’s enterprise software helps companies understand how much water, energy, chemicals and other resources they use, and how much they waste or pollute so that ultimately...
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Clique, is a new New York City based startup stirring up the online dating space. The premise is simple: Clique connects friends of friends—It’s how you meet people at a party, brought online. Clique users can’t connect with anyone who is more than two degrees away from a friend, so every date is vetted...
The race to create the gold standard of measurement for social media influence continues. The last we heard from Klout was that it was now tracking around 60 million profiles. But today it would appear PeerIndex is in its rear view mirror with 45 million profiles and counting. PeerIndex, which identifies experts who use...
The Newspaper Licensing Authority (NLA), which acts on behalf of UK newspapers, has launched a new online eClips web service, which allows media monitoring companies to supply clients with relevant newspaper website content, including paywall-restricted content such as The Financial Times and The Times, which web-crawlers cannot access. The new service has been in...
Amazon hoping to sell 4 million tablets this year, aiming to start selling them in August-September timeframe. Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/PxS_2c9T3Jg/amazon-hoping-to-sell-4-million-tablets-this-year-aiming-to-start-selling-them-in-august-september-timeframe-2011-6
Sequoia Capital is hiring. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm — known for its early investments in tech superstars such as Apple, Google, and LinkedIn– is looking to fill 20 graphic design vacancies at its portfolio companies in a decidedly unconventional way. Sequoia will be crowdsourcing its job application process through Talenthouse, a Palo...