Appies has closed a seed round from Brazilian fund Trindade Investimentos, the São Paulo-based mobile powerhouse announced today. While values weren’t disclosed, both parties noted that this capital will finance Appies’ dashboard for developers – its beta version is set to launch in a couple of months. As you may remember, Appies is the brainchild of...
Cisco Systems CTO Padmasree Warrior revealed grand cloud plans See Also Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff Joins The Board Of Cisco Oracle Just Declared War On Cisco Meet Big Switch, The Next Billion-Dollar Network Startup Cisco’s new chief strategy officer, Padmasree Warrior, is telling the world that VMware and Oracle won’t eat Cisco’s lunch. Last...
Developers right now have two ways to deal with the pain of device fragmentation. Tackle the issue head on, spending hours painstakingly developing for each platform, or opt for a cross-platform development tool or service to port across various platforms. While the latter is easier, there is often a compromise to be made, which...
As TNW reported just a short while ago, the Senate’s leading cybersecurity bill failed today, as it did not secure the needed 60-vote majority to beat back a filibuster and pass. This likely means that no bill will be passed this year, in relation to boosting the nation’s cybersecurity preparedness and prowess. This has...
Federal regulators have taken a significant step toward strengthening rules that protect children’s online privacy. On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission recommended restrictions that would make it harder for advertisers and social networks to gather information on children without parental permission. But how will the new rules play out in the real world? While...
SourceFed, a.k.a. the “bacon of the news” on YouTube, emerged as the first successful channel among Google’s premium content offering yesterday, when the show hit 500,000 subscribers with 158 million views to date. Google invested roughly $400 million in nearly 100 shows last January as part of YouTube’s Original Channel Initiative, a bid to...
Google gave Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center a 50th birthday present Thursday, putting 6,000 vivid, panoramic views of the legendary facility on Google Street View. Now that the space shuttle fleet is retired, Kennedy’s mission will change, so these Street View images are among the last views of the site that launched the first era...
Pubslush has undergone a bit of an evolution. The site is still a platform for authors to crowdfund the publication of their works — make no mistake. But Pubslush used to have a slightly different format. Users would post their book excerpt and summary onto pubslush, and if they received enough donations from readers,...
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EMC’s newly minted deal to work with Lenovo on X86 servers reverberated throughout the hardware sector after it was announced Wednesday morning. Under a key part of this three-pronged arrangement, Lenovo and will make and sell servers that will be “embedded into selected EMC storage systems over time.” That could have big impact on...