January 15, 2013
SevOne To Go For IPO, Raises $150 Million From Bain Capital To Expand P2P IT Monitoring
SevOne, an IT management company that uses peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to manage all elements of a customer’s IT infrastructure, has raised $150 million from Bain Capital to pursue mid-market enterprises…
YouSendIt Acquires Found To Enable Integrated File Search Across Apps, Devices, Cloud Storage Platforms And More
Cloud collaboration company YouSendIt has acquired Found Software, a startup that allows users to search for, find and discover their files, documents, and data across devices and cloud services. The…
TechStars Graduate DigitalOcean Switches To SSD For Its $5 Per Month VPS To Take On Linode And Rackspace
DigitalOcean is a cloud hosting solution for small developers, looking for a cheap virtual private server to experiment, host web applications with low memory needs and run some cron jobs.…
How California’s Online Education Pilot Will End College As We Know It
Today, the largest university system in the world, the California State University system, announced a pilot for $150 lower-division online courses at one its campuses–a move that spells the end…
Paymill, The Samwer Stripe Clone, Strikes Global Deal With PAY.ON To Expand Payment Options
Paymill, the cloud-based payment provider backed by the Samwer Brothers’ Rocket Internet startup incubator, is taking one more step to build out its Stripe-like service: it has signed a deal…
OkCupid Launches Standalone ‘Crazy Blind Date’ Service For Blind Mini-Dates
OkCupid has risen to be one of the most popular dating sites on the web, complete with a mobile offering on iOS and Android. But today marks the launch of…
Alibaba CEO Jack Ma To Step Down As CEO On May 10th, Stay On As Chairman Of China’s Ecommerce Giant
Jack Ma, who has been CEO of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba for the past 14 years (since it was founded in 1999), will step down on May 10 2013 but…
Owned It Wants To Turn The Order Confirmation Page Into A Social Commerce Opportunity
The humble order confirmation page is a wasted opportunity. Or so says Owned it, a new social commerce platform which aims to help retailers increase referrals and conversions by offering…
Amiigo Fitness Tracker Bracelet Gets VC Investment, Kicks Off Indiegogo Campaign
Amiigo, a fitness tracker bracelet, shoe clip plus app that can tell what type of exercise you’re doing thanks to its combination of hardware sensors and gesture-based software algorithms, has…
