Collaboration startup Huddle takes on WebEx with web conferencing and an iPhone app
Huddle is a London startup trying to make its mark in the crowded collaboration market by offering the most comprehensive tools around — co-founder Andy McLoughlin says customers should be able find everything needed to work together at the Huddle site. Now the company is adding to those features with a web conferencing tool and is allowing users to access Huddle in more places, with an iPhone application and integration with Microsoft Office.
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Britain’s best and brightest startups hit Silicon Valley next week for funding
If you’ve never heard of Dragon’s Den, it’s a popular British TV reality series, where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to get funding from business experts — the “Dragons”. One of those Dragons, Doug Richard, a UK-based Californian and founder of investment research firm Library House got a name for himself as a particularly fastidious investor on the show. And now he’s selected 20 of the UK’s most promising web application start-ups to go and try… Continue Reading
DEMO: A roundup of companies launching
There are 78 companies presenting at the DEMO conference this week. We’ll be covering some of the more notable ones in separate posts.
First, we’ve picked out 16 of them here for brief overview: Yoics, Acesis, Asankya, Atlaspost, Bitgravity, Cozimo, Healthpricer, Hubdub, Huddle, Squidcast, Standoutjobs, , Youchoose, Zodiac-interactive, Skyfire, Scenecaster and Ribbit.
YOICS, a Palo Alto, Calif., company, makes any network-connected device remotely accessible via a Web page. You can grant others access to it too. You… Continue Reading
Huddle, another online collaboration software system for businesses
Huddle is another company building collaboration software for businesses, combining social networking, document-editing, and other features. It has just raised $4 million from investors.
Huddle joins a large number of software companies trying to improve communication between coworkers, including Microsoft, Google and startups like 37Signals and Zoho, and many others.
London-based Huddle lets you make lists, leave notes for others, see who else is online at the same time, and store versions of Microsoft Word and Excel… Continue Reading