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Lithium Technologies raises $12 million; social network for enterprises will invest in innovation

June appears to be the month for social networks to announce new funding. The latest is Lithium Technologies, which today announced that it has closed a $12 million series B round. Lithium is in good company this month, with LinkedIn, Twitter, Jaxtr and others creating a splash with their respective...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Benchmark Capital, Innovation, Jennifer Leggio, Lithium Technologies Inc., Marketing, Network, Online Communications, Social Networking

Blog posts 2008-06-30

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Engine Yard raises $19 million in VC funding

Engine Yard, a Ruby on Rails developer, raised $19 million in a third round of venture capital. The company, which has raised $37 million to date, received funding from DAG Ventures, Bay Partners and Presidio Ventures. Benchmark Capital, Amazon and New Enterprise Associates---all previous investors---also participated in...

Tags: Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Twitter announces "significant" funding; offers few details

As expected, Twitter announced today that it had received "a significant round of funding with a group of investment firm" but offered few details beyond that. Earlier this week, reports in the Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch implied that the company was close to raising $100 million...

Tags: Twitter Inc., T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Investment Partner, Investment, Mutual Funds, Finance, Human Resources, Benefits, Retirement Plans, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Open source living on VC time

The acquisition of SpringSource by VMWare, combined with Friendfeed's acquisition by Facebook, clears the decks for Benchmark Capital to make new investments. Kudos to the venture capital VC firm's general partner Peter Fenton, who shepherded both success stories through the venture capital process. The...

Tags: Open Source, Attention, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-08-11

SAP software revenue skids in first quarter; Maintenance terms tweaked

SAP's first quarter software revenue---an indicator of maintenance and services health skidded 33 percent due to a "difficult operating environment" and a tough year ago comparison. Meanwhile, SAP altered its maintenance pricing plans to allay customer concerns.  SAP on Wednesday reported first quarter net income of €204...

Tags: Software, Revenue, Customer, SAP AG, Dennis Howlett, Vinnie Mirchandani, Upgrades, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-29

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Part Tree, er...Three

To Recap We're heading into the homestretch.  Which is why the Giants need to beat the Panthers....last night.  Oh, snap. This isn't my NFL blog. I don't have one. This is the final episode in that hilarious sitcom, Greenberg's Fools Gold.  For those of you who missed the previous...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, CRM, Greenberg, Connectbeam Management, Zuora, LucidEra, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-22

Agresso's answer to ERP addiction

Earlier today I took a briefing from Agresso. Up front I'll say that I have something of a soft spot for this company. Some years back I did some very early formative work on what is now their BLINC Businesses Living In Change schtik and was...

Tags: ERP Vendor, Oracle Corp., ERP, Agresso, Aggresso, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Friendster gets new CEO, $20 million in funding and a focus on Asia

Friendster was one of the early social networks, but wound up being surpassed by MySpace and Facebook in the U.S. The fix: Keep its lead in Asia, land $20 million in new funding and hire a new CEO. On Tuesday, Friendster said it named Richard Kimber as...

Tags: Friendster Inc., Asia, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Project execution gets more social with Clarizen

Project management is an art rather than a science and that software to manage projects exhibity many problems. Clarizen hopes to change that with version 2.0 of its service. Rather than concentrate on project creation and forecasting which never goes to plan, Clarizen attempts to keep...

Tags: Clarizen, ProjectMail, Microsoft Project, Team Management, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Making cash with SaaS and Web 2.0

Ever wondered why so many Web 2.0 or SaaS offerings are free or bundled? It's because the vendors can't work out how to bill for them. Don't believe me? Here are some real-life examples: A monitoring vendor that switched a $10,000-a-year data extraction option to free because...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Software-as-a-service, Web 2.0, Billing, On-demand, Aria Systems Inc., Zuora, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-03-13

Costs: Wintel Vs. OpenSource

Costs: Wintel Vs. OpenSourceHmm, its that alternate reality again.I read through this, and your example is impecable, makes perfect, and I'm left wondered why none of my customers use Sun hardware.And of the course, the reason is that in my reality, the vast majority of enterprises are SME's, and they...

Tags: Wintel, OpenSource

Discussion threads 2008-03-05

Sun acquires MySQL; Adds to its software stack

Updated: Sun Microsystems is taking the plunge into the database market with the purchase of open source database developer MySQL for $1 billion ($800 million in cash in exchange for all MySQL stock and assumption of approximately $200 million in options). With the move, announced Wednesday, Sun...

Tags: MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wall Street, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-16

The Semantic Web - is everyone confused?

The Economist. Tim O'Reilly. Nova Spivack. Danny Ayers. Read/Write Web's Alex Iskold. Kingsley Idehen. Brad Feld. Over the last few days all of them have been amongst those writing to clarify their understanding of the Semantic Web and where it's going. Each piece is thoughtful, each piece...

Tags: Web, Technology, Language, Danny Ayers, Read/Write Web, Tim, SWEO, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, RDF, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-01

Zillow raises $30 million in VC funding

Zillow said Thursday that it raised $30 million in venture funding. The round was led by Legg Mason Capital Management. Zillow, which has been building out its platform, said the money will go toward expanding staff and accelerating features and products. Zillow said in a statement...

Tags: Advertisement, Legg Mason Inc., Investor, Zillow, Real Estate, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-20

AMD doubters persist; Are they right this time?

With AMD's launch of its latest greatest Opteron server chip--formerly codenamed Barcelona--one of the biggest questions is whether lightning can strike twice. The first lightning strike came when AMD all resources launched the Athlon line and became a legitimate desktop player. Using that momentum AMD leapfrogged its...

Tags: Barcelona, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-14

Salesforce.com transitions to platform as a service

Salesforce.com plans to make its Apex Code available in general release next month, completing its transition from an on demand CRM application platform to a more generalized on demand software development platform.In fact, with the forthcoming Summer ‘07 release, salesforce.com now describes itself as a the "world's platform-as-a-service," complete with...

Tags: Web Technology, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-07-16

VMware sets IPO price range; lands Intel Capital as investor

VMware sets IPO price range; lands Intel Capital as investorVMware; Disrubtive TechnologyThis move by Intel in purchasing a VMware stake needs to be paid attention to just as the multi-processor multi-core move by Intel should have been paid attention to. Only Jobs and the Fins really got it right. Itel...

Tags: Game players, Thin clients, Processors, Programming languages, IPO, VMware Inc., multi-core, multiprocessor, web appliance, Microsoft Xbox, Intel Corp., network computer, Java

Discussion threads 2007-07-09

News to know: Microsoft patch skeletons; Telepresence; Ubuntu; GDrive

Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Skeletons in Microsoft's Patch Day closet.Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" features.David Berlind Testdrive: Cisco's TelePresence hi-def video conferencing system.Review: Drobo left.Larry Dignan: Do we really hate Apple and the iPhone? Jason O'Grady: YouTube arrives for Apple TV. Leopard screenies...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-06-21

Two open source dilemmas

Neelan Choksi should have been happy yesterday.Hes been promoted to Chief Operating Officer at Interface21. The company just got $10 million from Benchmark Capital, which previously backed Red Hat, JBOSS, and mySQL among others. It was the last day of JavaOne so he was just a few hours from his...

Tags: open source, Choksi

Blog posts 2007-05-12

docs.opportunities.sun.com

One of the things people like Ben Rockwood complain about a lot is the complexity and general pain of navigating Suns website - and, in particular, the paid access portions of the documentation and support sites. Heres one last quotation from the comments,...

Tags: Sun, General

Blog posts 2007-04-25