Goldman Sachs: Biggest opportunities are in data, efficiency

The biggest opportunities for investors are in big data and efficiency.

That's the line coming from Scott Stanford, the co-head Internet banker of Goldman Sachs.

Workday kicks IPO ass with 72% pop in first-day trading

In a commanding and impressive IPO performance, cloud software company Workday's stock soared 72 percent in early trading today.

Ireland’s Boxever uses ‘big data’ to help airlines better understand customers

Boxever has launched today to help travel companies better understand their customers and provide those customers with better deals and recommendations in real-time.

Study: Paid search ads increased 33% in Q3, Google controls 87% of search ads

A new report suggests paid search advertising increased by about 33 percent globally in third quarter of 2012, with Google still controlling the vast majority of the market.

How this 2-man startup plans to take on Sharepoint and Asana

Siasto, the tiny startup that competes with Huddle, Podio, Asana, and Microsoft Sharepoint, is making a name for itself as the disruptive newcomer on the scene.

10 predictions about networking and Moore’s Law from Andy Bechtolsheim

The pioneer behind some of today's fastest networking technologies makes 10 predictions about the futrue

Attivio nabs $34M to bring all your unstructured data into one place

Attivio, a Boston-based "big data" startup has pulled in $34 million to help customers organize their data -- whether it's sitting pretty in a database or is strewn haphazardly around the enterprise.

With a host of new features, Box pushes deeper into the enterprise

Box's Aaron Levie, a bundle of nervous energy, kicked off the company's annual conference this morning with a spate of product announcements.

Workday breaks the cycle of disappointing IPOs, boosts its price range (updated)

Workday, maker of human resources software, is proof that enterprise companies are immune to the recent strain of disappointing IPO's.

CloudFlare adding 30K new customers a week and just passed 2B pageviews per employee

Oh, and the company is growing revenue 20 percent monthly.

Box partners with Oracle, Eloqua, Jive, Zendesk, & more on HTML5 framework

Enterprise cloud storage business Box has announced a new HTML5 embeddable framework called “Box Embed” that will let more people access Box’s service through other applications, the company said today.

An ugly duckling no more: Why Platform-as-a-Service is poised for huge growth

Platform-as-a-Service is part of the booming cloud computing sector, one area of the cloud that some analysts and developers have overlooked. But recent research shows that PaaS is no longer the ugly duckling of the cloud industry -- and that it's ready to grow quite a bit during the next few years.

Is Polycom’s cloud-based video software really worth $12 billion?

Polycom, maker of video conferencing technologies, today unveiled a new software suite it claims will be worth $12 billion by 2015.

US Congress, Cisco: Chinese telecom companies ‘cannot be trusted’

The U.S. Congress Intelligence Committee and telecommunications vendor Cisco are agreed on one thing: Chinese networking equipment companies can't be trusted.