HotelNinjas launches its ‘Salesforce.com for the hospitality industry’ (exclusive)

Cofounder Avi Meir said he was inspired to start the company after realizing that most hotels still relied on "expensive, outdated, server-based technology."

Google opens up AWS competitor Compute Engine to all, adds PHP to App Engine

Google cloud infrastructure service Compute Engine is now open to all developers who want to use it.

Expensify takes on Freshbooks with invoicing & billing features

Popular expense report startup Expensify has added the ability to invoice and bill clients from inside its cloud-based dashboard.

Database-as-a-service Cloudant nabs $12M from Devonshire, Rackspace, & more

Hot database-as-a-service startup Cloudant has raised $12 million in its second round of funding.

Heroku developers get push messaging abilities with new Urban Airship app

Smartphone notification startup Urban Airship has launched a new app in the add-on marketplace of platform-as-a-service provider Heroku, a move to give PaaS developers better access to push messaging solutions.

Apple now has more than 300M iCloud users

Apple now has more than 300 million users on its iCloud storage and syncing service, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said today on its Q2 2013 earnings call.

Amazon flexes its cloud muscle: Now storing 2 trillion objects in S3

Last June, Amazon announced that S3 had hit one trillion objects stored. That was a big milestone at the time. And now it has doubled that amount in less than a year.

Look out, Amazon: Google opens Compute Engine to more devs & lowers prices

Google has opened up cloud infrastructure service Compute Engine to more customers while also lowering prices and adding several new features.

DecisionDesk nets $1.7M to help colleges & companies pick the best people (exclusive)

Ever had to collect thousands of applications and whittle them down to find the best hundred candidates? It’s not an easy task, but DecisionDesk wants to change that.

Salesforce revamps Chatter for iOS & Android to let you edit customer data, create polls, & more

Salesforce has updated its iOS and Android versions of Chatter — the company’s business social networking and collaboration service — with critical new features to match their browser counterpart.

Fusion-io scoops up ID7, a software-defined storage pioneer

Fusion-io, a leader in solid-state storage devices for high-volume datacenters, has acquired ID7, a maker of an open-source software-defined storage subsystem.

Google to challenge Evernote with new note-taking app Keep

Google is working to release a new note-taking app called Keep and it could seriously challenge Evernote, the king of note-taking applications.

EMC & IBM reportedly looking to buy Amazon cloud rival SoftLayer

Enterprise behemoths EMC and IBM are taking a close look at buying major infrastructure-as-a-service provider SoftLayer in a deal that could be worth more than $2 billion.

CloudFlare CEO: Despite outage, we’re still getting 3,500 new customers a day

CloudFlare's outage two weeks ago hasn't hurt the company a bit, and it continues to grow at a crazy pace.

VMware to launch public cloud to fight Amazon & Nicira-based software-defined data centers

VMware drops a boat load of cloud news on an already busy day, including that it will launch its own public cloud contender to challenge Amazon and Rackspace.

Oracle to acquire cloud management software biz Nimbula

Enterprise software titan Oracle has agreed to acquire Nimbula -- a cloud infrastructure management software company founded by former Amazon Web Services gurus.

Catchpoint nets $3.2M from Battery to boost real-time web monitoring

Web-performance monitoring startup Catchpoint Systems has raised $3.2 million in new funding that will help it better keep an eye on companies’ web services, APIs, DNS, and more.

Apprenda adds Java as a second language, will ‘support 90%’ of enterprise PaaS needs

Private PaaS Apprenda has added a second language to its platform that promises to make enterprise developers' lives a lot easier.

SugarSync’s simplified redesign now live — can it peel away Dropbox, Drive, & SkyDrive users?

Cloud storage startup SugarSync has launched its smart redesign out of beta so all of its customers and potential new ones can give it a spin.

Evernote names new COO, brings its business service to 26 new countries

Note-taking service Evernote has named a new chief operating officer and launched its Evernote Business product in another 26 countries in Europe, a sign it is getting more serious about making money from businesses rather than consumers.