SkyKick raises $3.7M to hustle businesses onto Microsoft’s cloud

SkyKick publicly launched the SkyKick Application Suite today and announced that it has raised $3.7 million to migrate small and medium-sized businesses to Office 365.

More Apple iCloud woes: Apple reports Game Center, iTunes, and AppleID outages

Apple iCloud services for identity, Game Center, account creation and sign-in, iTunes store purchases are experiencing service failures this morning for some users, Apple says on its system status page.

Investor buys $2 billion of MSFT, says Microsoft ‘will win out’ as stock jumps 4%

Microsoft stock, which is down a penny today, jumped from under $30 to over $31 almost immediately overnight, and has climbed almost 11 percent over the last month. That's part of a fairly steady rise over the last three months which has added over $30 billion in value to the company.

Video is the new audio, as videoconferencing contender Vidyo grows 68% and raises $17M to grow even faster

"We want to price equivalent to a voice call," Shapiro says. "Our competitors offer an inferior product for more money: Blue Jeans 15 time more, and other competitors 300 times more."

Boston bombing investigation will revive debate over pervasive surveillance

Camera evidence has provided key information in the case against the Boston bombing suspects.

IBM misses estimates, but sees potential in new ‘growth initiatives’

Computer maker IBM missed its estimates in the first quarter of 2013 with hardware sales slowing down. But the company sees a substantial future in flash storage.

Kaazing! ‘Living web’ startup pulls $15M from investor hats

Kaazing has raised $15 million to enable the "living web," which it describes as the "dynamic, interactive online world populated by applications that are always on, always connected, and always real time."

Amazon flexes its cloud muscle: Now storing 2 trillion objects in S3

Last June, Amazon announced that S3 had hit one trillion objects stored. That was a big milestone at the time. And now it has doubled that amount in less than a year.

Here are 5 mobile startups that build businesses, not apps

During the mobile platforms session at Demo Mobile, 5 startups pitched their technology to "build your mobile business on."

OnLive improves game-streaming performance with new optimization options

The cloud-streaming game company offers new options to its customers.

Mashery CEO: Intel’s buyout will expand its horizons

Chip maker Intel has agreed to purchase API management startup Mashery. The startup's CEO says it's a perfect pairing.

Bringing sanity to sales, Tylr Mobile promises to unify Salesforce with your inbox

Launching today, Tylr Mobile is a San Francisco-based startup that aims to improve how we work on a smartphone or tablet.

Intel aims to disrupt proprietary networks with software-defined open networks

Intel favors networking that separates hardware from the software.

Space Monkey takes on Dropbox with clever $10/month 1TB backup hardware

Space Monkey is a young startup that wants to put a “mini data center” in your home that costs you $10 a month and gives you a massive 1TB of backup storage.

Intel addressing broader markets, but smartphone chips still not moving the needle

Intel chief executive Paul Otellini said in a conference call that the outlook for the second half is good, but he's muted on cellphone chips.