Roundup: Mashups at Web 2.0, Linden Lab gets new executive and more
Here’s the latest action:
Mashup companies take over Web 2.0 — InfoWorld profiles three companies making announcements at this week’s conference: Serena, which is launching an online marketplace for business mashups; JackBe, which has a new version of its enterprise mashup platform; and Kapow, which provides a hosted service to build mashups that provide web intelligence. We’ll also be writing more about Rearden Commerce and Zude in the next few days. And we just covered SnapLogic,… Continue Reading
Kapow raises $11.6M more to provide mashup technology
Kapow Technologies, which sells software to companies that lets them assemble their own “mashup” applications by gathering data from around the web, has raised a $11.6 million third round of financing.
Mashup technologies have become increasingly important lately, now that data has proliferated around the Web and new technologies such as RSS allow people to pipe it directly to their computers, versus having to go get it themselves. A research analyst covering the retail sector, for… Continue Reading