Can you explain your ‘big data’ tech to a middle schooler? (video)

We invited four enterprise CEO's for an interview at the VentureBeat office. The catch? They had to explain their tricky tech to a panel of kids.

The British Invasion: Meet the poshest entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley residents often forget how unique this place is as an entrepreneurial hub, and challenging it is for people in other countries. For these nine British natives, coming to Silicon Valley has meant breaking away from English tradition.

Huddle launches all-new product version, bringing communication & files together

Huddle, the enterprise collaboration toolkit, is bringing a new product forward today. The new Huddle puts conversations and content into a single view, making for more thorough task management and workflow.

It’s cloud-based, as always, so you can view files …

Huddle raises a huge $24M round for unsexy, wildly profitable enterprise software

Huddle, the startup that’s bringing simple tools for collaboration to huge companies around the world, has just sealed a sweet deal: $24 million in new venture capital.

This is Huddle’s third round of institutional funding. Jafco Ventures led the round, …

Buffer tweets for you, when the time is right

Buffer, a social network scheduling service, chooses when to send out your status updates for you and just added LinkedIn to its repertoire, along with Facebook and Twitter.

Several companies have taken on the service of scheduling tweets and Facebook …

Huddle gets in sync with new, enterprise-grade file-syncing tools

Cloud collaboration startup Huddle has unveiled an intelligent file synchronization tool called Sync intended for use in large enterprises.

Huddle Sync, currently in private beta, is intended to let every worker in an organization gain secure access to the company’s …

CEOs love iPads, and other things you need to know about the cloud

Last week, VentureBeat hosted its first ever CloudBeat conference. It was a huge success (if we do say so ourselves), with more than 400 executives from cloud startups, leading cloud service providers, and various Fortune 500 companies coming together to …

iPads in the enterprise: CEO ego is driving adoption

iPads have taken over the boardroom, and corporate CEOs and their egos are to thank for the somewhat surprising trend. At least, that’s the consensus among a panel of cloud computing and enterprise experts who gathered to discuss the reality …

UK weather forecasters dump Microsoft Sharepoint for cloud-based Huddle

One of the big government weather offices in the United Kingdom tried using Microsoft’s Sharepoint software for collaboration a couple of years ago, but dumped it in favor of the much simpler cloud-based Huddle enterprise collaboration solution instead.

Michaela Drummond …

How Huddle ripped its name back from Google+ (exclusive)

Google recently rebranded a number of the features on its social networking site, Google+. One of those features was Huddles, the site’s group messaging feature, that is now known as Messaging.

That change was apparently always in the works because …

Duh: New Jive study shows social is pretty important in business

Business social networking company Jive published a study conducted by Penn Schoen Berland today that shows more than three-fourths of the top executives in large enterprises consider collaboration software like Yammer and Huddle a top priority.

The study also found …