Fidelity Investments joins the OpenStack crowd
Rackspace’s OpenCloud has been getting some backing from technology companies, but the company also announced a major financial services company as a customer. Read more »
Need a quick $30K? Recommend the right developer and it’s yours
photo: Flickr/401(K) 2012
In a sign of scorching demand for star developers, Hubspot is willing to pay a $30,000 bounty to whoever recommends the right person it ends up hiring. Read more »
Why OpenStack is like kale — it’s cheap, easy to source and good for you
photo: Nick Saltmarsh
OpenStack, like kale, can be baked, roasted, sliced, diced, sauteed and pureed to be made part of anything. Or at least that’s what its backers hope. Read more »
Top 5 lessons learned at OpenStack Summit
photo: Aaron Hockley
There was lots of hubbub Tuesday at the OpenStack Summit. Actual customers talking about real implementations of the open-source cloud. Here’s what I learned. Read more »
Marketing automation boom continues with Marketo’s $75 million IPO filing
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Marketo’s filing for an initial public offering is just the latest in a flurry of activity in the super-hot marketing automation space; stay tuned for more. Read more »
Infusionsoft rakes in $54M to automate marketing for small businesses
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Marketing automation SaaS vendors remain hot properties. Oracle bought Eloqua for $871 million, Hubspot nabbed a $35 million mezzanine round, and now Infusionsoft has $54M in fresh cash from Goldman Sachs and others to attack the small business audience. Read more »
Oracle beefs up marketing applications savvy with $871M buy of Eloqua
For its $871 million buyout of Eloqua, Oracle will get more marketing automation expertise and access to more than 1,000 customers. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2013 and continues Oracle’s fourth quarter buying spree. Read more »
Hubspot nets $35 million in new cash to fuel hiring and M&A
A new $35 million funding round gives inbound marketing SaaS specialist Hubspot the wherewithal to buy companies and hire staff as needed, says company CEO and Co-founder Brian Halligan. It also paves the way to an IPO. Read more »
NVIDIA at CES — the Year of the Tablet
Earlier today, I hit up the Nvidia press event at CES. As expected, the newest Tegra chip was announced and then demonstrated. This ARM Cortex-A9 is poised to kick the mobile market up a notch or two, based on what I saw and heard. It’s a […] Read more »
Ironic But True — Many On Twitter Are Just Silent
Yesterday we heard from Harvard Business School researchers that only 10 percent of Twitter users are generating almost 90 percent of the content. Today, HubSpot, a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup, has released a study that not only backs up the findings of the HBS report, but also […] Read more »
