How startups became safe for the enterprise
A combination of factors have made smaller vendors more appealing to corporate IT buyers. The big question is whether the fun will last.
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TOTVS, GoodData eye Latin America big data growth
TOTVS, a Latin American enterprise software giant akin to SAP, invested in cloud analytics company GoodData in a $22 million venture round.
Dalgaard, former SuccessFactors chief, joins Andreessen Horowitz
Just days after SAP announced a cloud reorg, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard landed at one of Silicon Valley's leading enterprise VCs.
Q&A: Upstart CEO Dave Girouard
Upstart's model includes a mix of crowd funding, a dash of Kickstarter meets peer-to-peer loan company Lending Club and algorithms that project future income and allow "someone to borrow from their future selves."
Revolution Analytics lines up Hortonworks, Intel Hadoop pacts
Revolution Analytics competes with legacy analytics players such as SAS. By forging a host of Hadoop partnerships, Revolution Analytics is aiming to be a front-end platform for the big data wave.
Silver Lake VCs: Time to anoint cleantech winners
Silver Lake venture capitalists Adam Grosser and Cathy Zoi talk about a new clean-tech fund they are starting backed by billionaire investor George Soros.
Now playing at Pandora: Net losses, rapid growth, IPO plans
Pandora has filed for an initial public offering and the streaming music service shows rapidly accelerating advertising revenue, but losses remain on the playlist.
AOL acquires Pictela, rounds out ad lineup
Since becoming independent from Time Warner, AOL has focused on smaller acquisitions instead of the big deals such as Bebo that historically have been a disaster.
VC funding in third quarter falls off pace; Early stage deals stable
In the third quarter, VCs invested $4.8 billion in 780 companies, down from the second quarter and year ago figures.
SmartPlanet: Real time monitoring of your energy consumption
Would you conserve energy if you could monitor your consumption by the hour? Lucid Design Group has developed new software that provides users with instant feedback on how much energy they're using. SmartPlanet visits the start-up to see their dashboard up close.