Enterprise cloud storage biz Box adds universal admin search, new security features, & more

May 24, 2012 6:00 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Enterprise cloud storage startup Box has added a slew of updates to its main product, including universal administrator search, more mobile security features for iOS and Android, and multiple e-mail domain support, the company announced Thursday morning.

Box now has …

Funding Daily: Get graded on your big data intelligence

May 2, 2012 4:30 PM Sarah Mitroff
Sarah Mitroff

At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …

Tablen: a new social network that mimics age-old dinner tables

April 19, 2012 10:34 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Unhappy with the current state of collaboration in social networks, Luan Ngo-Tran decided to build one of his own: Tablen, a social network that harkens back to having conversations around a table with friends.

The company is making its debut …

Yammer buys OneDrum for Microsoft Office social integration

April 11, 2012 12:00 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Business-focused social network Yammer has acquired document collaboration startup OneDrum, the companies jointly announced today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Yammer provides companies with their own private social network that employees use to quickly communicate and update …

Springpad’s latest update looks like Evernote and Pinterest had a digital notebook baby

April 11, 2012 7:00 AM Sarah Mitroff
Sarah Mitroff

Wednesday, Springpad launched the latest version of its digital notebook service, which includes a web, iOS, and Android app that help you save snippets of information from the Internet. The new version is a major overhaul of the service and …

Hackpad aims to build a better wiki with real-time updating

March 27, 2012 3:54 PM Sarah Mitroff
Sarah Mitroff

Creating and managing a wiki can take work. It requires a special syntax to format your text and build out the wiki how you’d like it. Hackpad is trying to make the wiki fresh again, with real-time updating and no …

CEOs love iPads, and other things you need to know about the cloud

December 6, 2011 5:00 AM Heather Kelly
Heather Kelly

Editor's Pick

Last week, VentureBeat hosted its first ever CloudBeat conference. It was a huge success (if we do say so ourselves), with more than 400 executives from cloud startups, leading cloud service providers, and various Fortune 500 companies coming together to …

Microsoft’s Code Space project combines Kinect, touchscreens for awesome meetings

November 15, 2011 8:05 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Microsoft Research is at it again: The wily folks who created Kinect, among other cool projects, have put together a project that could redefine the way we approach meetings.

Dubbed Code Space, the project allows groups to collaborate using air …

oneDrum collaboration platform brings Microsoft Office to the cloud

November 1, 2011 6:57 AM Chikodi Chima
Chikodi Chima

Software platform oneDrum, launching today, takes collaboration software where it needs to go: backwards.

Rather than make users learn new tools to work in remote teams, oneDrum is an online tool that seamlessly allows users to share and edit documents …

GlobalEnglish offers new suite of tools to help multinational employees learn English

October 4, 2011 5:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

Taking advantage of globalization, GlobalEnglish is doubling down on its business of teaching English to employees of small businesses and multinational corporations.

Today, the company is announcing a major overhaul that gives its customers new ways to collaborate  as they …

Stypi founders have a plan to reinvent Google Wave (video)

September 26, 2011 2:43 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Google Wave was a colossal flop. So why are the founders of Stypi trying to revive the idea of Wave-style collaborative software?

We caught up with the Stypi team at VentureBeat’s San Francisco office and asked them exactly that. This …

Google+ Hangouts make sense for collaboration at work or play

September 20, 2011 3:50 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Google released a slew of updates for its social network Google+ today. With these new updates, Google+ is turning into the social network of choice for web and mobile collaboration.

Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, described Facebook as the backyard …

Demo: LiveLoop makes cloud-based document sharing easier

September 13, 2011 10:05 AM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

It’s easy to see why smaller companies ditched popular office software suite products like Microsoft Office in favor of cloud-based solutions as provided by Google Apps. However, for larger companies, neither option is ideal.

LiveLoop aims to change that by …

Yammer unveils single sign-on and embeddable feeds with Yammer Connect

August 24, 2011 12:14 PM Matthew Lynley
Matthew Lynley

Enterprise social networking site Yammer today unveiled Yammer Connect, a new JavaScript application programming interface (API) that adds a single sign-on “Connect” button and embeddable streams to third-party enterprise software websites.

Yammer is working with a number of third-party enterprise …

Yammer adds Salesforce.com data to activity feeds

August 22, 2011 7:03 PM Matthew Lynley
Matthew Lynley

Enterprise social networking provider Yammer will now include data from customer relationship management software provider Salesforce.com.

The enterprise social network will now grab incoming data that Salesforce.com can export — including the likes of customer leads and sales data — …

Box.net ramps up HTML5 app development

August 11, 2011 9:20 AM Matthew Lynley
Matthew Lynley

Cloud storage provider Box.net announced today that it is launching a web-based HTML5 version of its mobile application that will bring the company’s tools to any mobile device running an HTML5-powered mobile web browser.

HTML is largely seen as a …

LinkedIn CEO “fully expects” to build in-enterprise social networking tools

August 4, 2011 3:00 PM Matthew Lynley
Matthew Lynley

Business social-networking site LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner said he expects to include internal enterprise communication tools like those seen in Salesforce.com’s Chatter and Yammer within LinkedIn.

“Certainly as enterprises become increasingly social, that’s an area where we want to …

Intuit Brainstorm will help companies turn great ideas into action

August 1, 2011 10:33 PM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Every company is full of smart employees with great ideas, but it’s often difficult to make those ideas a reality. That’s what Intuit is hoping to solve with Brainstorm, a new web-based collaboration tool launching today for organizations.

“We want …

Duh: New Jive study shows social is pretty important in business

June 29, 2011 5:00 AM Matthew Lynley
Matthew Lynley

Business social networking company Jive published a study conducted by Penn Schoen Berland today that shows more than three-fourths of the top executives in large enterprises consider collaboration software like Yammer and Huddle a top priority.

The study also found …

DoubleDutch’s HYVE app suite aims to improve enterprise-level productivity

June 21, 2011 6:13 AM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

DoubleDutch, a startup that produces enterprise mobile applications, announced the release of its new HYVE suite of enterprise apps at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference today.

The company designed the suite to improve worker productivity and make it easier to collaborate …