Google: 10 million Malaysian students, teachers, and parents will now use Google Apps for Education

Millions of Malaysian kids will be writing stories, collecting data, creating presentations, and organizing the future of their education in the cloud -- Google's cloud.

Salesforce’s Do.com teams up with Dropbox, Google Drive, & others to help your team ‘do more’

Salesforce-owned productivity app Do.com has partnered with big-name services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Harvest to improve its offerings and build an even-better app to help teams accomplish tasks.

OnApp nabs $20M from LDC & others to improve cloud management software

Cloud management software startup OnApp has raised $20 million in funding, cash it hopes will help expand its product offerings into more countries.

With a host of new features, Box pushes deeper into the enterprise

Box's Aaron Levie, a bundle of nervous energy, kicked off the company's annual conference this morning with a spate of product announcements.

ClearSlide nets $28M to give sales teams better presentation tools

Sales communications startup Clearslide has raised $28 million in its second round of funding aimed at opening a New York City office, developing new products, and increasing marketing efforts.

Oracle to acquire facilities management app maker Skire

Enterprise software titan Oracle has agreed to buy facilities management app maker Skire, the company announced Thursday.

Skire’s software helps manage the planning, construction, and maintenance of many kinds of buildings around the world. Oracle intends to combine Skire with …

AppDirect grabs $8.5M to power cloud app stores, partners with Rackspace

Cloud marketplace platform AppDirect has raised $8.5 million in its first round of funding.

AppDirect’s platform has made it possible for companies like Deutsche Telekom, Bell Canada, Appcelerator, and new partner Rackspace to launch cloud service marketplaces. High-profile apps, including …

Appirio raises $60M to be your one-stop cloud service shop

Cloud service consulting company Appirio announced today it has raised $60 million in its fourth round of institutional funding.

“We are seeing more companies going cloud first, saying they’re not ever going to buy another server,” said Chris Barbin, Appirio …

Zendesk launches Windows Phone app to support more cloud-based call centers

Customer help desk management service Zendesk has launched a Windows Phone application to continue helping small businesses with communications support, the company announced this morning.

Zendesk made our list of “Top 10 disruptive cloud companies we’re excited about” because it …

Salesforce’s Do.com opens its social productivity doors to everyone

Salesforce’s social productivity service Do.com has moved out of beta and into general availability for anyone who wants to give it a spin.

When Do.com debuted in early November in limited beta, the company gave VentureBeat 200 invites, and I …

Evernote hits more than 20M users

Multi-platform note-taking startup Evernote has now reached more than 20 million users, CEO Phil Libin said at the LeWeb conference this morning in Paris.

Evernote made our list of “10 disruptive cloud companies we’re excited about” because the company has …

myERP simplifies cloud-based business management with new app

myERP, a cloud-based business management suite for small and medium-sized businesses, just got a major upgrade with a simplified and refined interface.

CEO Francois Nadal took the stage today at CloudBeat 2011 to participate in the conference’s Innovation Showdown, and …

Google Enterprise VP explains how Google Apps is being steadily adopted

Amit Singh, VP for enterprise at Google, is really high on Google Apps. Not just because it’s his job, but because many people are choosing it over Microsoft Office and he’s seeing real examples of how it works better.

Companies …

Amazon Web Services VP: “We take downtime very seriously.”

Amazon Web Services VP Adam Selipsky doesn’t mind talking about failure.

When asked on stage at the CloudBeat 2011 conference in Redwood City, Calif. by VentureBeat editor-in-chief Matt Marshall, Selipsky admitted that Amazon’s cloud has had unfortunate lapses in the …

Standing Cloud raises $3M to help new cloud providers stay competitive

Cloud application management provider Standing Cloud has raised $3 million in a new funding round, the company announced today.

Standing Cloud is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company that offers an application storefront and life-cycle management to cloud service providers. The service …

Multimedia software maker Arcsoft raises $20M to build mobile and cloud apps

Multimedia software maker Arcsoft on Monday announced it has raised a $20 million round of funding, with the intention of creating mobile and cloud-based browser applications, and investing in core technologies.

“We want to be more aggressive in areas like …

CloudOn raises $7.7M to build mobile productivity apps

Mobile-workspace company CloudOn, formally known as AppToU, has raised $7.7 million in first-round funding, according to the SEC.

Palo Alto-based CloudOn’s marketing materials say the company is “creating a mobile, enterprise, cloud-based workspace” to help workers with productivity and collaboration. …