New Relic COO discusses growth in 2012, plans for 2013

New Relic COO and president Chris Cook stopped by VentureBeat’s San Francisco headquarters recently to chat about the company’s products and services for developers.

He had a lot of positive words about the company’s growth in 2012 — it’s currently …

Rap Genius responds to Heroku’s call for ‘respect’ amid allegations of fraud

Tom Lehman, Rap Genius co-founder, explains why Heroku's public statements on their customer service don't hold water with him.

Funding Daily: Startup Grind

Venture capital gives startups runway to develop, launch, and grow. Here are the companies putting funding through their grinders.

Readying for IPO, app monitoring all-star New Relic nets $80M from Insight, T. Rowe Price, & others

Application monitoring business New Relic has scored $80 million in new funds, which will help it secure a place alongside other sexy enterprise startups like Box and Palantir.

‘Nerds that code’ battle on toward global domination

This info graphic shows a breakdown of the worldwide developer population and their path toward global domination.

New Relic launches a report card for website speed (how do you rank?)

Web application monitoring service New Relic is adding a new site speed index to its product line-up, offering website and web application managers new insights into how they rank compared to similar sites … even competitors.

New Relic calls it …

PayPal handles 60% of web transactions, leaves Google in the dust

PayPal processes 60% of web transactions, Google is the fastest payment gateway, and some unlucky surfer had to wait over 92 seconds for his online purchase to complete.

Those are only a few of the findings in New Relic’s study …

Will software marketing die as the cloud sells itself? New Relic CEO trims the sales fat

There are actual people behind the cloud, and with people come salaries, and with salaries can come overhead. Lewis Cirne, chief executive officer of New Relic believes he’s found the way to cut the fat.

“You shouldn’t accept a vendor …