Guest Post Collaboration startups clearly want their customers to use an on-device app when on a smartphone or tablet, but taking a one-size-fits-all approach is bad for users and performance.
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There is so much happening right now in emerging cloud computing — the entire economy is being disrupted by the trend.
With publicly-traded giants like Amazon, Google, VMWare, Microsoft, Cisco and Salesforce lurching around with new and improved services that …
Box.net, which provides cloud storage services for the enterprise, announced its third-party developer network today, called the Box Innovation Network, or /bin.
Enterprise apps may not be the sexiest market segment for developers, but these are apps that the biggest, …
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Anyone who who follows technology trends has undoubtedly heard the term “cloud service” thrown around a few gazillion times over the past few months. But if you don’t know the difference between terms such as PaaS, IaaS and SaaS, don’t …
VentureBeat’s first annual CloudBeat conference is only a month away. Hosted on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at the Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City, we will be exploring many cases of real and revolutionary enterprise adoption of cloud services. We’ll …
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Steve Jobs introduced a lot of important products to the world, including the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. But one of the most important things he ever helped produce may be a product that didn’t even fully launch until after …
Cloud security startup Okta has added integrated single sign-on and multifactor authentication to its cloud security offering, a move that will improve security and stability for organizations using cloud-based software.
“We’re the first company to offer this all-in-one package to …
Cloud storage provider Box.net today announced it has closed an $81 million extension to its fourth round of funding, which includes new investors New Enterprise Associates and Bessemer Venture Partners.
The new round gives Box.net, which has evolved into a …
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The first time I met Box.net chief executive Aaron Levie, he showed me a magic trick with a deck of cards.
A year later, the 26-year-old was standing on stage (in his typical electric orange sneakers) in front of 350 …
Cloud storage provider Box.net will now work with Salesforce.com’s enterprise social network, Chatter, and its mobile application will now come pre-loaded on the Motorola Xoom tablet, the company announced today.
Box.net is now shipping its content over to Salesforce.com’s enterprise …
The cloud computing revolution has made the titanic valuations of major Web 2.0 companies like Facebook and Twitter completely justified, storied venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen (pictured right) said today.
Some major companies in the Web 2.0 …
Google appears to be close to rebranding its online document service, Google Docs, as a virtual hard drive in the cloud.
A blurry screenshot (shown above) snapped by blogger and social media consultant Johannes Wigand appears to show a slightly …
Database solutions startup Neo Technology on Wednesday announced it has raised $10.6 million with a goal of helping enterprise companies manage and interpret increasingly complicated data sets using NOSQL.
“People have been using SQL databases for many years, but we’re …
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Cloud storage provider Box.net rejected a $500 million offer to purchase the company, multiple sources have confirmed to VentureBeat.
Turning down a $500 million acquisition offer isn’t necessarily a bad move for a hot company like Box.net, because it could …
Updated: We’ve added a video interview with Levie below.
For many entrepreneurs, college dorms are the new garages.
Aaron Levie is the poster boy for that movement. He’s the he co-founder and CEO of Box.net, a cloud content management company …
You know it’s hard out here for a hacker, tryin’ to get money for his rent.
At least, that’s how it’s been up until now. Most freelance developers typically rely on contract jobs. But Appirio, a company that ports applications …
Business social networking company Jive Software has filed to go public and raise up to $100 million, according to a filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Jive Software supplies enterprises with internal social networks similar to Facebook. An …
Cloud storage provider Box.net has raised $19 million of a $35 million extension to its fourth round of funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Box.net chief executive Aaron Levie confirmed the round to VentureBeat.
“God …
Cloud storage provider Box.net announced today that it is launching a web-based HTML5 version of its mobile application that will bring the company’s tools to any mobile device running an HTML5-powered mobile web browser.
HTML is largely seen as a …
Cloud storage provider Box.net is unveiling a new set of code libraries that will let app developers quickly embed the company’s storage and collaboration tools into their apps, the company announced today.
“We have 40 developers building that back-end stack, …
