By now you’ve probably heard of Google Voice, a service that lets you take one phone number and configure it to ring all of your phones — work, mobile, home, whatever — with plenty of settings to manage your inbound and outbound calls. But what if you wanted the opposite: a service that lets you spawn [...]
The social enterprise wars are heating up. Last week, Jive’s Tony Zingale came on to talk about a user survey that showed quantifiable value his customers were getting from Jive’s software and answer why Yammer and Salesforce get the bulk of the industry press.
I invited Salesforce’s Marc Benioff and Yammer’s David Sacks on the show [...]
Android has passed yet another milestone in its race to the top: With 32.9 million handsets sold globally this last quarter, it has ousted longtime champion Nokia (with 31m) for the title of most popular smartphone OS maker in the world. It’s a bit of an apples to oranges comparison, of course, since Nokia also [...]
Mozy Founder Josh Coates launches Instructure today. He’s hoping to disrupt the entrenched player in the University LMS space, Blackboard, and take a big part of its $377 million or so in revenue.
In 2007 EMC acquired Mozy, an online backup solution, for $76 million. Coates stayed for another year, then left.
Since then he’s been helping [...]
Reuters – China’s factories slowed a touch in January under the weight of monetary tightening, but input prices rose quickly, keeping the pressure on the government to tackle inflation despite easing growth.
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Reuters – Governor Jerry Brown pressed California lawmakers in his state-of-the-state address on Monday to let voters decide on his budget plan, saying any attempt to block a special election would be irresponsible in light of protests in Egypt and Tunisia.
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AP – The Obama administration launched a consolidated effort to spur new start-up businesses Monday, part of the White House’s campaign to emphasize job creation while downplaying new economic spending initiatives that could face congressional opposition.
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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — China’s official purchasing managers’ index gauge of manufacturing slipped to 52.9 in January, indicating slowing growth in the sector after December’s 53.9 reading, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said Tuesday. The result from the survey compared to an average forecast of 53.5, according to a Reuters survey of economists. [...]
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Hong Kong stocks traded mixed early Tuesday, with resource shares rising on higher commodity prices overnight, but with some financials losing ground on concerns of policy tightening after China’s official purchasing managers’ index showed manufacturers’ input-prices on the rise. The benchmark Hang Seng Index added 0.1% at 23,467.3, while the [...]
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