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TechCrunchIT May 27 09
There is a heated competition taking place for which Twitter/Facebook desktop client is the fairest of them all. We've written about about TweetDeck, Twhirl / Seesmic Desktop, AlertThingy, Sobees, and the clients that focus only on Twitter (Tweetie, Nambu, Twitterific, etc.). Now, PeopleBrowsr, is entering beta with a free Adobe AIR-powered desktop app that integrates Twitter, Facebook and other social networks into one platform.
While in alpha, PeopleBrowsr was able to differentiate itself because it was a web browser based dashboard for social networks, sort of like what Streamy is now. Full story...
Kony Solutions, the unfortunately named makers of a write once, run everywhere mobile app development platform today announced that it has closed a $15 million series C round of financing.
Confirming rumors from last week, HP just publicly announced a layoff plan that will result in a reduction of 8% of its workforce.
Within HP's quarterly results today, a bit of a development for Autonomy, the company's $10.2 billion enterprise software purchase from last year that was profitable when HP bought it but in the last quarter saw "significant" declines in its core licensing revenue: its founder and head Mike Lynch is stepping down, and he is getting replaced by a HP man: chief strategy officer and EVP of enterprise software Bill Veghte.
Business software giant SAP announced today that it will acquire Ariba's cloud -based business commerce network for approximately $4.
Most businesses need to be able keep in touch with their customers and provide customer service over the phone, but rolling out a call center can be expensive.
Software is eating another part of the world. (Or at least the next generation of software is eating the older 1970s-era kind.
If you are in the business of needing to process shopping for your ecommerce startup then this is going to be of interest.
Yotta, the Cambridge-based startup that offers cloud-based web performance monitoring and optimization services for small businesses, is today announcing that it has closed a $9 million series B financing round.
The team behind Salesforce.com's enterprise social networking app Chatter is making a big push for real-time communication with two new features — Chatter Messenger and Chatter Screensharing.
GitHub, the source code hosting and collaboration service, has been growing like gangbusters. The site now has over 1.