Cisco (San Jose, CA, USA) yesterday announced that it has acquired privately-held Versly (San Francisco, CA, USA). Versly integrates collaboration capabilities via a plug-in into Microsoft [...]

Jive is supposed to be Facebook for businesses (I know it doesn’t say much, but hang on a little longer). Jive has been loosing money for 5 years in a row. Jive has just filed the papers for an [...]

Do you share the perception that software engineering jobs are moving east? Is India, Vietnam, Ukraine, Estonia…. taking all the software development positions? Apparently not. The headline [...]

NextDocs Corporation (KING OF PRUSSIA, PA, USA) announced that the Company has received $10.3 million in a Series A financing from OpenView Venture Partners. NextDocs will use the financing to [...]

  6fusion (Raleigh, NC, USA) has completed a $7 million round of funding. 6fusion is a provider of utility-metered public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure management software and services.

Acquisition Designed to Allow Cisco to Enable Service Providers to Generate New Revenue Opportunities Cisco (San Jose, CA, USA)has announced its intent to acquire service fulfillment software [...]

The titel of this post comes from an essay in the Wall Street Journal written by Marc Andreessen.  It is a very positive outlook for the software industry and a warning to the physical industries [...]

  Hewlett-Packard Co (Palo Alto, CA, USA) are working on acquiring Autonomy Corp. Plc (Cambridge, UK). HP has confirmed the discussions with Autonomy for possible buy, reportedly for about [...]

SGI (Fremont, CA, USA) has completed the acquisition of OpenCFD Ltd. (Reading, UK). OpenCFD is the leader in open source CFD software and has a large, active user base across commercial [...]

New market forecasts from Juniper Research indicate that currently less than 1 in 20 smartphones and tablets have third party security software installed in them, despite a steady increase in [...]