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Vidyo has raised a $22.5 million Series D round of financing led by QuestMark Partners, with participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures, Rho Ventures, Star Ventures and Four River Group. Since being founded in 2005, the startup has raised a total of $96 million. Read more »

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The iPad is leading the tablet charge in small and medium-sized businesses (SMB), resulting in a growth spurt that puts the Apple device out in front of nearly all other comers. I say nearly, because there’s still one device that sees even more activations: the iPhone. Read more »

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Many companies are slashing budgets to improve the bottom line — or at least postponing purchases until later — but not all. Thirty-nine percent of small and medium businesses reported budget cuts this year, averaging a 22 percent reduction in IT funding, according to Spiceworks’ annual […] Read more »

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One of the key concepts at the core of traditional marketing is the 80-20 rule — that some 80 percent of the effects (or in this case, profits) are the result of 20 percent of the causes (here, customers). Indeed, if you’re able to target just […] Read more »

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The iPhone has a lot of potential for enterprise use. It’s a powerful device, and it supports Exchange synchronization, and more and more, businesses are integrating Apple computers into their current IT loadout. Still, BlackBerry dominates the business market. Especially in more traditional corporate climates, the […] Read more »

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I apologize for the last minute notification of this but I can’t believe the Microsoft Small Business Summit is upon us already. The Small Business Summit is a free three day online conference featuring a host of experts sharing the secrets of their success. This series […] Read more »

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Looks like Cisco Systems (CSCO) is dead serious about turning the screws on the competitors of its Linksys line of products. Today, Netgear (NTGR) announced its first-quarter 2008 financial results and they were, to put it mildly, terrible. Sure, revenues were up 14 percent on a […] Read more »

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PC Advisor, a UK-based magazine, reports that Cisco Systems (CSCO) may phase out its Linksys brand all together, making the company it acquired in March 2003 for $500 million a product category, according to Cisco’s VP of SMB solutions marketing, Rick Moran. Last year, Cisco CEO […] Read more »

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[qi:086] RingCentral, a Redwood City, Calif.-based VoIP company, has raised $12 million in Series B funding, doubling the amount it raised in its Series A round. New investor DAG Ventures led the latest funding, with existing investors Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures participating as well. The […] Read more »

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Dell has announced a solid state disk option for their Latitude D420 and D620 notebooks according to Akihabaranews.  The 32 GB SSDs aren’t the biggest capacity flash drives out there but it’s great seeing a major notebook maker offering these drives.  SSDs provide faster performance and […] Read more »

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Alereon, which is developing the Ultrawideband (UWB) and Wireless USB (WUSB) markets, today showed off a fully integrated prototype running at 480Mbps. The demonstration at the Wireless USB Developers Conference included a WUSB Media Access Controller (MAC) from Intel, and a WUSB physical layer (PHY) from […] Read more »