DotLoop takes the physical paperwork out of the home-buying process, grabs funding

Buying a house involves a slow process of sharing a lot of physical documents between several different people. Frustrated by this process, Austin Allison founded DotLoop, a startup that invites people to digital documents instead of sending them via email …

Open-source customer relationship management service SugarCRM raises $33M

Salesforce competitor SugarCRM has raised a sweet $33 million in funding. The eight-year-old company provides customer relationship management (CRM) software-as-a-service for companies to manage their sales leads.

There are several heavy hitters in the CRM world, including Microsoft Dynamic, Zoho, …

Google strikes at Microsoft with Office 365 criticisms

On the day before Microsoft’s Office 365 launches, Google has taken steps to preemptively keep customers from choosing 365 over Google Apps. In a blog post, Google Apps Product Manager Shan Sinha listed four reason Office 365 was a weaker …