Apptio Raises $16.5 Mil...
Apptio , a Bellevue, Washington-based provider of SaaS-delivered Technology Business Management solutions this morning announced that it has closed a $16.5 million Series C round – the company has now raised up to $37.5 million in venture capital. The financing round, which the...
Facebook India Offices ...
Hot on the heels of Facebook overtaking Orkut as India’s most prominent social network with 21 million vs. 20 million unique visitors in July, the company officially opened its much anticipated office in Hyderabad earlier this week. Facebook Hyderabad is Facebook’s second...
Foursquare Now 3 Millio...
It appears that Foursquare hit the three million user mark sometime over the weekend. The location based social network has been adding users at impressive rates , and only hit 2 million users in early July. It took a year to reach one million; three months to hit 2 million , and a month...
Why Tech Warriors Give ...
There’s a growing debate in Silicon Valley as to whether the rise in angel investors coupled with robust deal activity (from the likes of Google , Facebook , Zynga , etc.) is fostering an unhealthy environment for the industry. It’s not that founders aren’t making money... Founder Institute: How ...
For any entrepreneur, the challenge of taking an idea to launch can be a daunting and expensive journey. Fortunately, Adeo Ressi , founder of TheFunded and startup accelerator, Founder Institute , has a ten step plan. While there is no foolproof recipe for every launch, Ressi says his...
Google, Facebook To Mic...
The entire Internet (aka Facebook, Google, Apple AOL, Facebook, eBay, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube) has just been served with a vague and vast patent violation suit from Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen. As patent suits are notoriously unpopular,...
Keen on … Net Neutral...
Is America losing its edge? This was the rather depressing subject of this year’s Aspen Forum , the annual event put on by the DC-based Technology Policy Institute Read more: Keen on … Net Neutrality: Is America Losing its Edge?...
SkyFire for iPhone To B...
SkyFire. Heard of it? Read the original here: SkyFire for iPhone To Be Submitted To Apple Next...
OffiSync’s Office-to-...
OffiSync , a startup that lets you collaboratively edit documents using Microsoft Office and Google Docs in tandem, seems to be doing well — the company’s plugin is the third most downloaded on the entire Google Apps Marketplace. But it also has a new challenger approaching:...