Apple Buys Samsung’s Android Security Partner AuthenTec For $356M
Amid fierce smartphone competition between Samsung and Apple that has spilled into a multinational patent battle, it looks like Apple may have opened yet another front on the M&A side: it is buying...
View ArticleKony Solutions Buys Aussie Sky Technologies As Mobile Enterprise Consolidates
Some consolidation is afoot in the world of mobile enterprise services. Orlando, Fla.-based Kony Solutions has bought Sky Technologies, a mobility solutions provider specializing in SAP implementations...
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AppGlu Launches Mobile Platform That Lets You Update Apps Without The Need...
Apps can decay pretty quickly without updates after deployment. The problem is, most of the time the only one who can make the updates to the app is the person who developed it. AppGlu’s new mobile...
View ArticleWandera Gets $7M From Bessemer To Help Enterprises Compress And Control...
Wandera, a startup that offers enterprises a cloud-based solution to reduce the costs of mobile data through compression and better management, is announcing that it has closed $7 million in funding....
View ArticleAndreessen-backed Enterprise App Startup Tomfoolery Launches Anchor, A...
Tomfoolery, the mobile app lab founded by ex-Yahoo and AOL execs that aims to make enterprise apps capturing some of the light and free nature of consumer services, is today debuting its first product:...
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Andreessen-Backed Tomfoolery Adds Box, Dropbox, Evernote And Android To Its...
Tomfoolery, the mobile app lab founded by ex-Yahoo and AOL execs committed to making enterprise solutions more consumer-friendly, is today launching a new, iOS 7-friendly version of its debut app, the...
View ArticleClari, A Mobile-First Predictive Sales Tool, Comes Out Of Stealth With $6M...
CRM behemoths like Salesforce and Oracle, and more mature startups like Domo, have made some significant inroads into mobile and specifically apps for mobile salespeople, but a new startup believes...
View ArticleEmergence Backs SteelBrick’s Technology For The New, Mobile Salesforce
Just a few months after acquiring the pricing and quote-check software developer SteelBrick in a $5 million transaction, Godard Abel, the serial entrepreneur behind BigMachines and G2Crowd, has brought...
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Software Entrepreneurs Must Go Mobile-First Or Die
Roger Lee Contributor Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures. More posts by this contributor Keys to ascending the consumer-internet throne How to communicate with your board in tough...
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BlackBerry Names New COO, Marty Beard, ex-CEO Of Enterprise Cloud Startup...
On the heels of news that Apple would be significantly ramping up its mobile enterprise push in a partnership with IBM, BlackBerry is also looking to step up its game. Today, the company announced that...
View ArticleRed Hat Buys FeedHenry For $82M To Add Mobile App Development To Its Platform
Some big news today for Red Hat, the open source company that provides a platform for application development and other platform as a service solutions: It is buying FeedHenry, an Ireland-based...
View ArticleHow Smart Founders Can Take Advantage Of The Platform Shift
About 15 years ago, the Internet triggered a platform shift in the delivery of enterprise software; a wave of cloud startups quickly unseated the kings of the server era. Now, another platform...
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The things any startup could be doing to get Fortune 500 customers
New-market disruption is a rare phenomenon and usually comes in waves in conjunction with some form of dramatic technological advance. Many disruptive companies (both new and existing) created new...
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