Tylr Mobile nabs $500K from Citrix Accelerator, Alchemist and more (exclusive)

Tylr Mobile, a startup in stealth mode that is building a better way for business users to work on a smartphone or tablet device, has been selected by two accelerators, and has received investment from private individuals at companies like SAP, Salesforce.com and Oracle.

Farmigo’s online farmer’s market dishes out fresh-from-harvest food to all

Farmigo sets up an online farmers market with its database of farms, software platform, local food evangelists, and $8 million.

Coveo, Canada’s ‘big data’ offering, nabs $18M as it edges closer to profitability

"Big data" startups are experiencing fast-growth and are getting funded on an international scale, a sure sign that it's more than just a fleeting Silicon Valley trend.

Google quietly deletes free version of Google Apps for Business

Google said today that only the premium version of its Apps for Business would be available from now on, for $50 per user per year.

Enterprise is sexy! 80% of tech startups likely to IPO are B2B

Forget about consumer IPOs: The vast majority of companies expected to go to the public markets in 2013 will be business-focused.

Red-hot mobile security startup Zenprise gets snapped up by Citrix

Zenprise has been acquired by Citrix, which may come as a surprise to Silicon Valley insiders who expected an initial public offering from the red-hot mobile security startup.

With new release, Apprenda bets on the hybrid cloud

Apprenda, a startup that claims to transform legacy infrastructure into modern cloud-based architectures, has announced its new 4.0 release.

Red Hat brings its OpenShift PaaS to the enterprise

Open-source cloud software provider Red Hat has finally launched its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service for enterprise customers.

Salesforce to predict the future with the power of Prior Knowledge

Salesforce acquires Prior Knowledge and its predictive database technology for developers.

Steve Ballmer makes case for total Windows domination

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sketched his view of technology's future in an onstage discussion with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman tonight in a wide-ranging discussion that covered everything from Surface to Windows Phone to Xbox to cloud services.

Box and Yammer founders say: it’s time to beautify enterprise software

Box and Yammer's cofounders explain how user-experience design may be a solution for large companies getting their "asses handed to them" by scrappy startups.

Field service software provider ServiceMax pulls in $27M, plots global expansion

ServiceMax offers customers web and mobile applications for scheduling and workforce optimization and contract management in the field.

Workday embraces the big trends: Windows 8, ‘Big Data’ and analytics

The Pleasanton, Calif.-based company announced plans for a recruiting mobile app for hiring teams, as well as a big data analytics toolset.

Startups learn a painful lesson: The ‘Dropbox effect’ is a myth

A pervasive myth exists among tech founders: If they build a product that consumers will love, it will magically trickle into Fortune 500 companies.

Sococo builds a virtual world for real work

How do you bring a radically distributed workforce together and meld it into a single, unified team? Transport them to the same world -- virtually.