Email infrastructure business SendGrid takes a dive into new waters with its own email marketing service, which will challenge Constant Contact and MailChimp.
Enterprise social-networking company Jive Software has launched new apps for the iPad and iPhone, and soon it will bring its Jive Present presentation app to Android.
This startup is trying to organize and make useful just about every kind of data imaginable -- not only large volumes of data but also data that appears at high velocities.
Enterprise cloud-backup provider Zetta.net has raised $8 million in new funding to help it bolster its backup, disaster recovery, and archiving services.
There wasn't much big news today in the tech world, but the deals kept flowing. Surprisingly, our most popular funding story happened to be the smallest deal: People just can't get enough of privacy solutions in light of the NSA data-snooping controversy.
The mayor San Francisco says 1,826 tech companies are in San Francisco, and he hopes more of them move to Twitter's neighborhood.
NASA today announced its 2013 Astronaut Candidate Class, drawing upon a pool of 6,000 candidates.
RetailMeNot, "the world's largest digital coupon marketplace," filed for a proposed initial public offering. The proposed maximum aggregate offering price is $230 million and the stock will be listed on the NASDAQ as "SALE."
"Sure, you get 70 percent of your clicks in the first two days," Pinquora CEO Shara Verma told me last week. "But there's a huge long tail. Clicks kept coming all the way for 30 days, and even beyond."
Keaton Row is a fashion startup reigning in the "future of personal styling" with an online, affordable process that has customers spending seven times the average e-commerce order and coming back for more.
You gotta love security geeks -- they can make it so easy for you. At least, if you're a black hat hacker.
Health startup Medivo has raised $15 million to expand its health monitoring platform that connects doctors, consumers, and clinical labs. The company's vision is to save and improve lives through faster and easier access to quality health care.
Poster, an app that enables you to post articles on WordPress from you iOS device, has been acquired by WordPress.com parent company Automattic, the app's creator announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Targeting the back-to-school shopping rush, Google announced today that its Chromebook computers will soon come to even more major retail stores.
A beta version of news-curation service Digg's long-awaited RSS reader is scheduled to arrive next week, the team announced on its blog today. For many, this will replace the nearly retired Google Reader.
YouSendIt says it's getting a new name because it does a lot more than let you send files.
Civic and business leaders are raising $100 million to kick the region's burgeoning startup scene up a notch. Dubbed the Regional Entrepreneurship Initiative (REI), it seeks to attract venture capital to fund new ventures and keep success stories at home.
The NSA whistle-blower didn't approve of the way Google and other tech companies handled their responses to the PRISM reports.
Over the course of 20 minutes, Curiosity fired its million-watt laser at a tiny section of Martian soil 20 times.
Kyocera will provide 30MW of solar power generating systems to alternative energy project that powers Japan's agricultural community.
