Cornell University Alumni Dave Duffield In a season of hot enterprise IPOs, one of the most anticipated IPOs is finally rolling: Workday. Workday makes cloud software that helps enterprise do human resources functions. Its founders have a storied history with their arch-rival, Oracle. Workday filed for a $400 million offering, though that’s only a...
There’s been a lot of sound and fury over Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan’s speech at the party’s national convention on Wednesday, and how it was riddled with inaccuracies, or what some prefer to call “demonstrably misleading assertions.” Is it news that a politician on the campaign trail would shade the truth, or use...
Way back in May 2010, we queried whether Money Dashboard could become the UK’s answer to Mint.com. “Mint.com has earned a great reputation in the US for its online money management tools, allowing users to keep track of their finances in real time via Web-based and mobile apps,” we noted at the time. “The...
With just a 2 percent acceptance rate, it’s statistically harder to get your startup into Y Combinator than it is to get accepted into MIT or Stanford undergrad. The hot incubator/accelerator has spawned some of the biggest startups including Reddit, Dropbox and Airbnb. For those on the outside, looking (to get) in — what’s...
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The launch of Windows 8 may still be two months away, but the tide of new hardware releases is beginning to swell – including hybrid notebook/tablet devices from Dell and Samsung. HP just announced a convertible Windows 8 notbook tablet (see HP Envy x2 Tablet/Laptop Combo Cuts Across Categories), while Dell used the IFA...
There are a thousand, maybe more hot startups in Silicon Valley at any one moment, but one name that’s popped up a few times this summer has been RelateIQ, a startup supposedly doing next-generation customer relationship management with some very data-savvy founders and investors. The company’s web site is fairly bare, but the pitch...
Microsoft has organized its Imagine Cup student technology competition for the last 10 years and today, the company opened registration for the 2013 edition of this event. Students ages 16 and older can now register for their national events and the winners of these local event will be flown to St. Petersburg, Russia, where...
If you don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the design of your city’s sewer system, you’re not alone. If you’ve lived in South Bend, Ind., though, it might be a different story. There, heavy rain has sent sewage overflowing into the St. Joseph River and backing up into basements in the old...
HBO is going to launch its first significant over-the-top offering, and it’s going to do so in one of the same markets as Netflix. The service, called HBO Nordic, will be launched in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland in mid-October, and could provide some interesting competition to Netflix, which will also soon be entering...