There are dozens of online backup products available, and we’ve written about some of the free services here. One of the more intriguing services is from CrashPlan, which for years has had an unlimited storage plan for free. Article source: RRW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/H25PeSe1ccw/unlimited-online-storage-from.php
Basho Technologies, a data storage and management software startup serving the enterprise market, this morning announced that it has raised $7.5 million in Series D funding. In addition, Basho announced that its board of directors has named Donald J. Rippert, long time CTO of Accenture, as the company’s new president and chief executive officer....
So annoyed by this. Not cool at all. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/84j7vw6Faf0/
A new report from research firm Canalys indicates that direct revenue from mobile app stores will almost double within the next year to hit figures of $14.1 billion, a 92% rise from an expected $7.3 billion in 2011. Estimates suggest that app store revenue will continue to boom over the next four years, reaching...
UK-based music streaming service We7 recently discussed plans for expansion into new markets in Europe, and today that’s becoming a reality as it launches a site for the Belgian market. In the UK, We7 offers both a free Last.fm-style ‘radio’ service and a paid-for, premium Spotify-style on-demand option. However, it’slaunching in Belgium with just...
I believe Chrysler did some testing (quite a while ago) with ‘trains’ of cars on the highway: grouping 4 to 8 cars together with a distance in between of only 1 or 2 feet. It worked beautifully and was fully automated until you got to the highway exit where you as a driver would...
The death of a battery: we’ve all seen it happen. In phones, laptops, cameras, and now electric cars, the process is painful and — if you’re lucky — slow. Over the course of years, the lithium-ion battery that once powered your machine for hours (days even!) will gradually lose its capacity to hold a...
I thought I’d type up some notes after an evening of using Google’s new social network, Google Plus. This is a really big deal, a super ambitious effort involving scores of engineers over months of near total secrecy. (Though some helpful sources and I scooped the core Circles part of all this three months...
It’s official. Jack Dorsey’s Square has joined the billion dollar valuation club. The mobile payments startup closed a $100 million series C led by Kleiner Perkins, a story we broke a few weeks ago. The new round values Square above $1 billion. Tiger Management is also an investor. And Mary Meeker, the former Morgan...
One thing is clear investors are in love with Square, the payments company co-founded by Jack Dorsey, the co-creator of Twitter. The company today announced that it has received yet another big slug of funding. The veteran venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers is leading the $100 million investment in the company. The...