by ray | Nov 12, 2015 | Security
Update at 9:06 a.m. Pacific on Monday, November 7: Blue Coat has just announced the acquisition. The company paid $280 million for Elastica, not more than $300 million, according to a statement. Blue Coat Systems, a security vendor owned by Bain Capital, is...
by ray | Nov 12, 2015 | Tech News
YouTube is first and foremost a video portal, the world’s largest and most popular online collection of moving images. But it’s also a search engine, the world’s second largest, trailing only its parent company, Google. And while the library on YouTube is made up of...
by ray | Nov 11, 2015 | Cloud Tools, Tech News
Even as winter comes with her mist, snow and rain, and the sweet anticipation of the holiday season, we’ve been working as hard as ever to make the Freshdesk experience better for you. A few weeks back, we gave our knowledge base a makeover and introduced a bunch of...
by ray | Nov 11, 2015 | Cloud Tools
Intel’s chips are used in 95% of the server market, powering some of the world’s largest data centers. That includes most of the public cloud services, like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, who get highly customized chips from Intel. Backed by Intel’s...
by ray | Nov 11, 2015 | Tech News
PeerSpace, a short-term meeting space reservations marketplace, has announced a $5 million Series A round of financing led by Foundation Capital to propel growth. Existing investor Structure Capital also participated in the round. The startup is a bit like Airbnb but...
by ray | Nov 11, 2015 | Tech News
E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said it generated more than $3.9 billion in gross merchandise volume (GMV) within the first hour of its China’s Singles’ Day sale. This compares with $2 billion recorded in about an hour in the 2014 sales event, which is held...