Posts Tagged ‘ team ’

Dropbox debuts single sign-on to give companies streamlined management, increased security, and fewer logins

May 21, 2013
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Dropbox debuts single sign-on to give companies streamlined management, increased security, and fewer logins

Dropbox on Tuesday announced the roll out of single sign-on (SSO), a feature that lets users sign in just once to a central identity provider and securely gain access to all of their business apps. Since a company’s existing trusted identity provider is in charge of the authentication process, administrators don’t have to worry about…

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Bing Fund invests in BuzzTable, an app that tracks when you’ll be seated at your favorite restaurant

May 1, 2013
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Bing Fund invests in BuzzTable, an app that tracks when you’ll be seated at your favorite restaurant

Microsoft announced today that it has made a strategic investment in BuzzTable through the Bing Fund, a program run in partnership with HP and Nokia to support mobile and Web-based startups. The company joins LikeBright, which was picked up in January and Selectable Media from last December. BuzzTable offers two mobile apps and a browser-based…

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Swipe launches into beta as a Web app to create and share presentations to anyone on any device

April 25, 2013
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Swipe launches into beta as a Web app to create and share presentations to anyone on any device

Swipe, a Web app that functions as a two-way presentation tool, is launching into beta today, allowing people to not only build Web-powered slideshows, but also share them with anyone. Those presentations can then be viewed on any mobile device with a modern browser. Formed out of Startup Weekend Oslo in 2012, company co-founder Horia…

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Angie: An AngelList iOS app with full messaging features

April 19, 2013
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Angie: An AngelList iOS app with full messaging features

If you’re a fan of AngelList, the US-based social platform for startups seeking funds, you may wish to check out Angie, an AngelList iOS client that lets you network and send messages directly to other AngelList users. How it works You do, of course, need an AngelList account to use this app – you can’t…

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Bono on Apple: “…you cannot get people this smart to work this hard just for money”

April 18, 2013
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Bono on Apple: “…you cannot get people this smart to work this hard just for money”

Time magazine released its ‘Time 100‘ list of interesting people for 2013, and it’s packed with tech luminaries. One of those singled out is Apple head of Human Interface Jony Ive. Ive’s blurb is written by musician and activist Bono, who has had a long relationship with Apple in concert with various endeavors like a…

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Readability Launches Top Reads, An Online Magazine Aggregating The Platform’s Most-Read Content

April 5, 2013
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Reading app Readability once butted heads with Apple on subscription rules, but more recently its friction points have been in competition with apps like Instapaper, Pocket, Pulse, and Flipboard, who all present consumers with ways of aggregating and making it easier to read the vast sea of content available online. Now Readability, with has 5…

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Ooomf Shutters Its App Discovery Platform, Relaunches As A Freelancer Marketplace For Web & Mobile App Projects

April 3, 2013
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Ooomf, a startup which raised half a million in seed funding last fall for an app discovery platform, is already closing that service down and pivoting to become a marketplace to connect developers, designers and copywriters with web and mobile projects. The new service will operate under the same name, and founder Mikael Cho tells…

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Scientists find hint of dark matter from cosmos

April 3, 2013
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Scientists find hint of dark matter from cosmos

Buy AP Photo Reprints GENEVA (AP) — A $2 billion experiment on the International Space Station is on the verge of explaining one of the more mysterious building blocks of the universe: The dark matter that helps hold the cosmos together.An international team of scientists says the cosmic ray detector has found the first hint…

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With 500K Downloads, Haiku Deck Raises $3M Series A For Its Unique, Mobile-First Presentation Creation App

April 3, 2013
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We’ve covered Seattle-based Haiku Deck‘s iPad-based presentation tool in the past, and come away impressed. The mobile native PowerPoint killer lets anyone create attractive presentations quickly using only their device, and now the startup behind it has raised a $3 million Series A funding round, led by Trilogy Partnership and including existing investors Madrona Venture…

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Collective Bias Raises $10.5M Series A To Push Its Shopping Blogger-Powered Social Marketing Model Internationally

April 2, 2013
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The market for social marketing startups is getting some natural uplift as more advertising money shifts online and marketers experiment with alternatives to traditional ad formats (like banner ads) that don’t make enough of a mark in the digital space. One such startup, Collective Bias, has just closed a $10.5 million Series A — led by…

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