Plenty of task apps out there want to help you get your “to dos” done. But Salesforce is hoping you don’t mistake their Do for one of them. After acquiring the productivity app Manymoon and relaunching it as Do last year, the enterprise giant is set to announce Thursday that it is rolling out...
Daily Archives: August 1, 2012
Accel Partners beefs up big data investment team
Venture capital firm Accel Partners is looking to ramp up its investments in the big data and cloud computing spaces with the addition of a new principal and a new entrpreneur in residence. New principal Jake Flomenberg comes from Splunk, where he was director of product management, and was previously at Hadoop pioneer Cloudera....
Digital Health is a Long Distance Race, For Dot-Com Veteran BodyMedia
One of the top trends in digital health is wearable body sensors. The Nike+ sensor shoe is the Usain Bolt of this market, with its flashy image and impressive results. Startup Fitbit has also gained a lot of traction, with its small clip-on device. But still in the race for gold is a dot-com...
Do.com Adds Contacts and Deal Tracking For Facebook Style Task Management
Salesforce.com has added contacts, deal tracking and public APIs to its do.com platform for task management. Initially, Salesforce.com is adding the capability to integrate Facebook and Google contacts. It will soon after add Twitter and Salesforce.com. The deal management capability adds to the do.com lightweight CRM environment. Do.com is also opening its APIs for integration...
Facebook Stock Crash Hoses California’s Tax Revenue
RealtyTrac See Also Facebook’s Mobile Future Looks Bleak Mark Zuckerberg Reveals He Is Open To A Radical Change In Facebook Strategy 20 Reasons You Wish You Worked At A Tech Company Well, the hits from the Facebook stock implosion keep coming. Now, it’s the State of California, which apparently overestimated how much tax revenue...
Social Media Manager Buffer Opens API To Developers, Looks To Become “Widespread Sharing Standard”
Buffer, a social media manager that aims to become a “widespread sharing standard,” opened its API to developers today. Buffer lets users post to their Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts (Google+ isn’t as lenient with its API) and offers the usual array of analytic feedback. However, its focus on non-original content sharing, especially photos,...
YouTube Gets An Investigative News Channel
Crack journalism is coming to the land of cat and Justin Bieber videos: YouTube is helping to launch a new channel with the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIR). The new “I Files” channel will curate videos from sources such as The New York Times and Al Jazeera, in a attempt to bring some much needed attention...
Envato expands online education platform into game development
Australian company Envato has just expanded its online education platform Tuts+ with the addition of a hub for game development education. Gamedevtuts+ launched overnight with four pre-published tutorials, including one on world design and a couple on developing platformers. It is edited by Michael James Williams, who also edited recently shuttered Activetuts+. Envato is...
The Senate’s cybersecurity bill is now widely expected to fail tomorrow
And here we are. Not a week after a breakthrough vote occurred to bring the Senate through the cybersecurity gauntlet, things are looking more than grim. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the smart money’s take that cybersecurity in the Senate is dead in the water. The implication? The US government won’t pass a cybersecurity bill this year....
Please Let This Apple Rumor Be True: A Smart Watch That Talks to Your iPhone
It’s that time of year again. The Apple rumor mill is working overtime as customers await iOS 6 and the iPhone 5 in the fall, with a 7-inch iPad and long-anticipated HDTV set on the horizon. One purported iOS 6 feature could propel Apple into wearable computing in a very cool way. Apple may...