It’s not often that you see Apple slip up and offer a clue about forthcoming products on its own website, but that is just what happened when the folks at 9to5Mac searched for “macbook pro” on the Apple Online Store and saw it bring up some unexpected results. Along with the current lineup of...
Livefyre, the software platform that embeds live commenting on websites, has secured $4.5 million in a new round of funding. The San Francisco-based company says it plans to use the money to hire more engineers and salespeople and expand its products. Livefyre is seeing solid growth at the moment: The company’s platform is now...
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Tidemark, formerly known as Proferi, has closed a $4 million Series B round from existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Dave Duffield, co-founder and co-CEO of Workday and founder of PeopleSoft, bringing the total amount raised to more than $11 million. Tidemark formerly debuted last year as stealth startup Proferi, but has rebranded today...
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Today during an interview at the Web 2.0 summit, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo revealed that Twitter signups via iOS devices have tripled since the launch of iOS 5. Specifically, he told Mashable’s Ben Parr that iOS 5 devices were the driving force behind the growth. Twitter is deeply integrated with iOS 5 at a...
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Twitter has only just begun to see the effects of its integration with iOS 5, the newest version of Apple’s mobile operating system. But just days after iOS 5′s debut last week, the microblogging startup has already gotten a major lift from the big partnership. “The iOS integration is going...
Identity Is Prismatic “The portrait of identity online is often painted in black and white,” Poole said. “Who you are online is who you are offline.” That rosy view of identity is complemented with a similarly oversimplified view of anonymity. People think of anonymity as dark and chaotic, Poole said. But human identity doesn’t...
Today, at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff took the stage to talk about the current landscape of the cloud for the first time since the public back-and-forth between himself and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. For those unfamiliar, earlier this month, Ellison cancelled Benioff’s keynote talk at The Oracle...