Portfolio News Archive

Roost
Roost Unveils New Business Model

Inman News
date: 09.01.2010
...the company announced a categorical shift this week to a business model focused on helping agents and brokers gain referral business through the social networking site Facebook.
Zenprise
Mobile Devices Threaten Enterprises From Within
darkREADING
date: 08.23.2010
Security researchers are focusing increasingly on mobile devices. The result: your next insider attack could come from a smartphone
Zenprise
Aberdeen Publishes Comprehensive Enterprise Mobility Management Vendor Landscape
marketwire
date: 08.11.2010
The study, The Enterprise Mobility Management Solution Landscape, details vendor support of the six major phases of the EMM lifecycle
Lithium Technologies
Forbes Video - What Lithium Knows About Social Hierarchy in Community
Forbes.com
date: 08.11.2010
Great insights from CEO Lyle Fong
Zenprise
McAfee Doubles Down With tenCube
Seeking Alpha
date: 08.11.2010
Finsphere
Launching: The First Location-Based Fraud Monitoring Service, Finsphere's PinPoint
netbanker
date: 08.09.2010

I’ve been looking forward to the day when financial companies begin leveraging mobile phone location to fight payments fraud. That day has arrived with the launch of Finsphere’s PinPoint which began its private beta a few hours ago.

Zenprise
Smartphone wave challenges enterprise security
SFGate
date: 08.05.2010
Good Technology, Zenprise, Trust Digital (recently acquired by McAfee), MobileIron, Tangoe and Box Tone are possibilities in what's called enterprise mobility management for multi-OS smartphone management and security...
Zenprise
Gartner: iPhone inches towards the enterprise
itnews
date: 08.04.2010
For organisations that want control over a wider variety of mobile devices, Simpson recommended MobileIron, ZenPrise and FancyFon.
Spiceworks
New Study Sees Rise in Cloud Services Adoption Among Small and Medium Businesses in First Half of 2010
PRLog
date: 07.28.2010
The "SMB Cloud Computing Adoption: What's Hot and What's Not" survey was conducted by the Spiceworks Voice of IT (VoIT) market research program
Zuora
Salesforce.com Veteran's Cash Register For Cloud Services
Forbes.com
date: 07.20.2010
The idea for Zuora came from a meeting between the leaders of Salesforce and WebEx, where Zuora cofounder K.V. Rao had been working as a top executive, to discuss a possible new venture.
Zuora
Zuora Launches Z-Force 3.0 - Changing the World One Release at a Time
Diversity Limited
date: 07.14.2010
Zuora...is today releasing the latest version of it’s billing and subscription product built on the force.com platform, Z-Force.
Spiceworks
Spiceworks Community Becomes 'Facebook Of IT'
InformationWeek
date: 07.13.2010
Now Spiceworks has built yet another successful paradigm. This one is a very "Facebook-esque" online forum where ITers can mingle with their peers to talk shop.
Zuora
NetSuite and Zuora Partner to Deliver Best-Of-Breed Solution for Subscription-Based Businesses
NewswireToday
date: 07.07.2010

NetSuite, Inc....and Zuora, Inc...today announced a partnership to jointly develop and offer combined solutions to companies that need to meter, price and bill for subscription- and usage-based products.

Zenprise
5 Enterprise Smartphone Facts That Will Surprise You
Zenprise Blog
date: 07.07.2010
Zenprise
Zenprise Grows Revenue 110% Over Previous Years
Iphone.TMCnet
date: 06.30.2010
Zenprise, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise mobile management and mobile device management software, today announced record year over year revenue growth of 110 percent between 2007 and 2009.
Spiceworks
Spiceworks Launches Cloud Partner Program
InformationWeek
date: 06.25.2010
Spiceworks...this week launched the Reach channel program, designed to give cloud-based service providers access to the 1 million users of the Spiceworks social IT management application.
Zuora
Zuora Launches Billing Service For Cloud Providers
TechCrunch
date: 06.23.2010
Today, Zuora is announcing a subscription billing model for cloud computing, called Z-Commerce for the Cloud.
Zenprise
Zenprise Announces Support for iPhone OS4 Software
SmartBrief
date: 06.22.2010
Zenprise Inc., a leading provider of enterprise mobile management and device management software, today announced that its award-winning MobileManager platform will support Apple's iPhone OS 4 software.
Zuora
Zuora first billing provider in Microsoft cloud platform
Connected Planet
date: 06.21.2010
Late last week, Zuora became the first on-demand billing and subscription management provider to be chosen by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Windows Azure Technology Adoption Program.
Zenprise
Zenprise's Blackberry Monitoring Solution Named A Winner In The 8th Annual eWeek Excellence Awards Program

Zenprise
date: 06.10.2010
Zenprise announced today that eWEEK, the industry leader for strategic technology information, has named Zenprise for BlackBerry® the winner in eWEEK's 8th annual Excellence Awards program in the Mobile and Wireless category.
Spiceworks
1 Million Strong and Makin' History
Spiceworks
date: 06.02.2010
In just under 4 years, 1 million IT pros have rallied to join Spiceworks' "free IT" revolution!
Smule
Thank You, SonicMule, For Having Fun With A Press Release
The Wall Street Journal
date: 05.25.2010
...a release today from SonicMule Inc., a venture-backed maker of audio applications for Apple mobile devices, drew chuckles from our news team for its brazen attempt to insert humor in an otherwise routine announcement.
Zuora
Billing Startup Zuora Signs Over $1 Billion In Subscription Revenue In Q1
TechCrunchIT
date: 05.12.2010
Zuora has signed over $1 billion in contracted subscription revenue in the first quarter of its new fiscal year, which ended April 30.
Lucid Imagination
Open Source Developers Go 2 Prague
IrishDev
date: 04.30.2010
The First Apache Open Source search technologies conference for European developers takes place in Prague this month, presented by Lucid Imagination.
Zenprise
Delta Airlines and Vodafone Join Zenprise to Discuss Best Practices for Mobile Management Automation at WES
PR-inside.com
date: 04.21.2010
Zenprise, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise mobile management and device management software, today announced it will be leading a panel discussion with two of its flagship customers, Delta Airlines and Vodafone, during the BlackBerry Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) 2010 event in Orlando
Smule
Lang Lang wraps up a concert with Flight of the Bumblebee on the iPad
ZDNet
date: 04.21.2010
Chinese pianist Lang Lang has performed Flight of the Bumblebee using just the iPad.
Smule
Lang Lang Plays iPad at Concert
Wal lStreet Journal
date: 04.21.2010
When Smule came out with its iPad piano app, called Magic Piano, earlier this month, it sent an iPad preloaded with the app to the Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who was part of the inspiration behind the idea.
Smule
Lang Lang Plays Rimsky-Korsakov on an iPad at Concert
Wall Street Journal
date: 04.21.2010
As reported in fellow Journal blog Digits, tech company Smule sent an iPad loaded with its new app, Magic Piano, to Chinese prodigy Lang Lang earlier this month
Smule
Chinese pianist Lang Lang plays Flight Of The Bumblebee. On an iPad
Music :) Ally
date: 04.21.2010
Chinese pianist Lang Lang outdid himself by walking on-stage for the encore playing Flight Of The Bumblebee on an iPad
Spiceworks
New Report Finds Technology Spending Rising Among Small and Medium Businesses in First Half of 2010
WindowsNetworking.com
date: 04.19.2010
“The technology spending slowdown among small and medium businesses seems to be over,” said Jay Hallberg, co-founder and vice president of Marketing for Spiceworks
Smule
Smule unveils Glee for iPhone and iPad
Macworld
date: 04.15.2010
Smule on Thursday unveiled Glee for iPad and iPhone, an app created in partnership with the hit Fox television series of the same name.
Smule
Unleash Your Inner Gleek on the iPad
New York Times
date: 04.15.2010
Fans of Glee, Fox’s campy comedy about the misadventures of a high school show choir, now have one more way to “gleek” out: Using their iPhones and iPads.
Smule
Gleeks Rejoice! Smule Packs Fox's Glee Into A Fantastic iPhone App
MobileCrunch
date: 04.15.2010
Today Smule is launching the official Glee app for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
Spiceworks
Microsoft's latest small-business plan
CNET
date: 03.31.2010
A study from Spiceworks finds that small businesses are speeding up their plans to move to the new operating system.
Spiceworks
Virtual systems management for the masses
NetworkWorld
date: 03.31.2010
Ipswitch and Spiceworks this month separately announced additional features that tackle virtualization for their low-cost and free management products, respectively.
Smule
The Accidental Investment
Entrepreneur
date: 03.29.2010
Mobile app maker Smule wasn't looking for more funding but saw the value when the right backers came knocking.
Lucid Imagination
Lucid Imagination Secures $10 Million in Series B Funding
Lucid Imagination
date: 03.11.2010
Lucid Imagination, the commercial company for Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, today announced it has raised $10 million in venture capital funding, completing its Series B round with a new investment from Shasta Ventures and participation from existing investors Granite Ventures and Walden International.
Smule
Visions for the Future of the Web
BBC News
date: 03.04.2010
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Smule co-founder Ge Wang share their visions
Spiceworks
CDW and Spiceworks to Present on Innovative B2B Social Media Marketing Strategies at IAB Marketplace Conference
Your Story
date: 02.04.2010

Spiceworks is enabling ‘Social IT’ by combining systems and network management software with a rapidly growing and active Facebook-like community of IT professionals...

Makara
Makara turns the cloud into a virtual layer

CNET
date: 02.02.2010
On Tuesday, Roth and company are announcing the developer edition for their Cloud Application Platform with a newer, catchier name: Makara.
Makara
Andreessen-Backed Makara Unveils Cloud Application Deployment And Management Platform
TechCrunch
date: 02.01.2010
Stealth startup Makara is launching publicly tonight with its cloud-based application deployment and management platform.
SpiderCloud Wireless
SpiderCloud Wireless Raises $25 Million
The Washington Post
date: 02.01.2010
SpiderCloud Wireless provides the industry?s first Enterprise Radio Access Network (E-RAN), a combination of Enterprise WLAN system architecture and UMTS small cell technologies designed to scale mobile broadband deployments inside the enterprise.
SpiderCloud Wireless
Cellphone traffic jam at the office?
VentureBeat
date: 02.01.2010
Office workers now use their smartphones to get the job done, regardless of what phone system is actually installed in the workplace. But relying on a remote radio tower, one that could be miles away, to route calls is a recipe for full-on fail. You can have five bars on your phone and still be unable to connect a call or run an app.
Spiceworks
Spiceworks is Becoming a Force in the IT Community
Ruby Zone
date: 01.22.2010
Spiceworks is taking IT departments by storm.  Its IT community of 850,000 strong in 196 countries is quickly becoming the Facebook for IT managers
Spiceworks
Spiceworks' Success Proves Ad-Supported SaaS Can Succeed
Seeking Alpha
date: 01.14.2010
...Spiceworks calls itself “iTunes of Network Management” and calls its business model, “Social IT”.
Mochi Media
Shanda Games to Acquire Mochi Media
WSJ
date: 01.12.2010
Chinese online game developer Shanda Games Ltd. agreed to acquire U.S. online game network Mochi Media in a deal valued at $80 million, furthering its global expansion ambitions.
Spiceworks
Spiceworks Is Becoming The Facebook For IT Managers; Raises $16 Million Series C
TechCrunch
date: 01.11.2010
Spiceworks, a startup that develops Web-connected social IT management software, has raised $16 million in Series C funding round led by Institutional Venture Partners with Austin Ventures and Shasta Ventures participating
Mochi Media
Shanda Games to Acquire Mochi Media
date: 01.11.2010
Shanda Games Limited, a leading online game developer, operator and publisher in China, today announced an agreement to acquire Mochi Media, Inc., a leading platform for distributing and monetizing browser-based games worldwide.
Lithium Technologies
Lithium Technologies Raises $18 Million in Series C Financing
Lithium Technologies
date: 01.06.2010
Lithium Technologies, the leading provider of Social CRM solutions to power the customer network, announced today that it completed an $18 million round of Series C equity funding in December 2009, adding two new venture capital partnerships – DAG Ventures and Tenaya Capital.
Eye-Fi
Eye-Fi Pro enters its next generation
CNet
date: 01.05.2010
Eye-Fi heads into the new decade with a completely rearchitected design for its Wi-Fi-enabled SD cards for digital cameras.
Click Forensics
Click Forensics to Help eBay Protect Online Advertisers
BusinessWire
date: 12.17.2009
Click Forensics, Inc., the industry leader in audience verification and traffic quality improvement for the online advertising community, today announced that it is working with eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, to help protect eBay advertisers from fraudulent traffic and to improve conversion rates for merchants using eBay’s AdCommerce advertising platform.
Smule
App Store Champ Smule Raises Another $8 Million
MobileCrunch
date: 12.16.2009
...Smule is announcing that they’ve secured an $8 million dollar round of Series C funding.
Gowalla
Geolocation wars heat up: Gowalla raises $8.4 million
CNET
date: 12.09.2009
Could the geolocation wars be the next browser wars? Maybe. There's a fresh $8.4 million in venture funding for Gowalla...
Gowalla
Best App for Urban Social-Networking Game
O'Reilly Best iPhone Apps
date: 12.09.2009
Gowalla gives you and your pals colorful passports to fill with stamps as you roam your city (or anywhere in the world).
Gowalla
A Scavenger-Hunt Social Network Finds Funding
The New York Times
date: 12.09.2009
Gowalla announced it raised $8.4 million in a Series B investment round.
Lithium Technologies
Squeezing Web Sites Onto Cellphones
The Wall Street Journal
date: 12.02.2009
Lithium wants to take those forums, blogs and other social-networking elements to cellphones with a service it plans to roll out next year...
Outright
Outright Lends A Hand To Small Businesses With $5.5M Funding
The Wall Street Journal
date: 11.16.2009
One of the key things that esteemed venture firm Sequoia Capital looks for in a potential investment is an entrepreneur solving a problem they experienced firsthand, says Partner Bryan Schreier.  That was the case with Sequoia’s recent bet on Bootstrap Inc., operator of Web-based bookkeeping service Outright.com.
Caring.com
Caring.com raises $10M in 2nd round
Silicon Valley Business Journal
date: 11.12.2009
Caring.com, a site designed for people who are caring for aging parents and loved ones, said Thursday it raised $10M in a second round of funding.
Asterpix
Contextual Search Tools Improve SEO
digital media buzz
date: 11.04.2009
Search engine optimization algorithms and policies continue to be in a constant flux as new software and tools emerge every day. Entering this foray is a company called Asterpix, which focuses on the search and discovery of all content.
Zuora
Zuora Announces Z-Payments 2.0, the First Subscription Commerce Solution Built With PayPal X
PR Newswire
date: 11.03.2009
Zuora, Inc., the fastest growing billing and payments service, today announced its newest product, Z-Payments 2.0 powered by PayPal X, the world's first truly global payments platform.
Mochi Media
Mochi Media Makes Flash Games More Social with Facebook Connect
Inside Social Games
date: 10.14.2009
Mochi Media, a company that distributes developers’ Flash games across the web, is now introducing a few ways to make its service more social.
Asterpix
Asterpix Launches SearchLight Service to Help Users Discover Content and Boost Online Publisher Revenues
EarthTimes
date: 10.13.2009
Asterpix today announced the formal launch of its SearchLight publisher offering that helps users discover relevant content and drives additional revenue for publishers.
Geodelic Systems
Geodelic Wins People's Choice Award at 3rd Annual Location 2.0 Summit
Geodelic Systems
date: 10.09.2009
Geodelic, makers of a leading location-triggered discovery application, today announced it was chosen by top LBS industry leaders for a People’s Choice award at the recent SiRFecosystem’s Location 2.0 Summit in the Consumer Applications & Services Category for its Geodelic mobile application.
Zuora
DEMO: Zuora Says It Has a Bold Plan to Save Journalism - Subscriptions
VentureBeat
date: 09.22.2009
Zuora has already signed up more than 100 customers for its online software, which helps companies automate subscriptions and billing.
Zuora
Buying Into Subscriptions
Forbes.com Video
date: 09.16.2009
Mint
With Deal, Intuit Adds to Offerings
The Wall Street Journal
date: 09.15.2009
Intuit Inc. agreed to buy personal-finance site Mint.com for $170 million, adding to the tax and financial-management company's offerings in the burgeoning business of providing software as a service.
Mint
Mint Software Takes $170M Intuit Offer For Access To Customer Base
Dow Jones VentureWire
date: 09.15.2009
Personal finance Web start-up Mint Software Inc. has attracted a respectable 1.5 million users since its founding in 2006, but now the company has access to tens of millions of potential users as part of finance-software pioneer Intuit Inc.
Mint
Intuit Buys Mint, a Web-Based Finance Competitor
The New York Times
date: 09.14.2009
Mint.com, a start-up whose Web site helps people organize their money, rolled into some cash of its own on Monday, selling out to the personal finance giant Intuit for $170 million.
SayNow
Miley Cyrus Is on the Line Just for You
The New York Times
date: 09.13.2009

Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are now considered essential parts of the entertainment factory’s marketing arsenal. Add another service to the list: SayNow.  SayNow has been quietly amassing huge numbers of callers and winning celebrity converts. The free service says it averages 10 million fan calls a month, or about one million voice minutes each day.

Zuora
How Zuora Benefited From Recession
BNET
date: 09.11.2009
An interesting thing happened on the way to the business plan for Zuora, which sells software intended to help online service vendors bill their customers, and its CEO and co-founder Tien Tzuo. It was the recession.
Plastic Jungle
Doing Good With Unused Gift Cards
NYTimes
date: 08.24.2009
[Plastic Jungle] recently added the option of donating the full face value of the cards to schools through DonorsChoose.org.
Outright
On to Plan B: Starting a Business
NYTimes
date: 08.22.2009
Kevin Reeth, chief executive of Outright, says, “We realized these people, who have had careers and worked for other people most of their professional life, are not at all prepared to go out and become a business owner.”
Spiceworks
How Spiceworks grew by giving its product away
Austin American-Statesman
date: 08.17.2009
Focusing on the often-neglected information technology manager is paying off for Spiceworks Inc.
Outright
Outright: Simple Online Bookkeeping for Sole Proprietors
Small Business Trends
date: 08.12.2009
...The main benefit of Outright is that it asks you to keep track only of the income and expenses; it does the rest.
Geodelic Systems
Meet Sherpa, the Hottest Android App
GigaOm
date: 08.05.2009
Sherpa, a location-based services application developed by Santa Monica, Calif.-based startup Geodelic, is among the fastest-growing applications for Google’s Android.
Doostang
Online career matchmaker helps MBAs land jobs
CNN.com
date: 07.31.2009
LONDON, England (CNN)-- In a tough job market, MBA graduates seeking top-tier jobs are turning to a career networking site created by and catering to young professionals.
Doostang
Outsourcing the MBA Job Hunt
BusinessWeek
date: 07.27.2009
...Doostang has become an exclusive destination for students and alumni from top universities to source jobs and to network.
Mochi Media
Mochi Media Announces Launch of Mochi Coins, a New Premium Flash Game Platform
marketwire
date: 07.21.2009
Mochi Media, the largest online games network, today announced the release of Mochi Coins, a new micro-transaction and distribution platform for Flash games that enables game developers and site publishers to generate revenue from virtual goods in high-quality games.
Mochi Media
Can this save the Flash game market? Mochi Media launches virtual currency
VentureBeat
date: 07.21.2009
Flash games on the web started out as a hobby. Now there are tens of thousands of them that, through advertising, are generating steady incomes for their creators. And today, Mochi Media is launching a virtual currency that could extract even more revenue from those Flash games.
Mochi Media
Mochi Media bets big on micro-transactions
CNET
date: 07.21.2009
According to Mochi Media co-founder Jameson Hsu, the big difference between Flash and console games is quality--of graphics, service, and general game-play.
Mochi Media
Mochi Media Launching Payments Platform For Flash Games. Early Results Are Stunning
TechCrunch
date: 06.25.2009
Mochi Media continues to quietly build out monetization and reporting tools for Flash game developers.
Spiceworks
Spiceworks Spices Up Social IT Management Software
TechCrunch
date: 06.15.2009
IT software maker Spiceworks is launching version 4.0 of their desktop software suite that helps a company’s IT staff collaborate with each other and manage “everything IT.”
Plastic Jungle
25 Ways to Save Money Every Day
Oprah.com
date: 06.11.2009
There are millions of dollars' worth of unused store gift cards lying around. If you have one, you can sell or swap it at PlasticJungle.com.
Outright
Out of work? Start your own business
ABC TV
date: 06.05.2009
...The good news is technology is making it more affordable to start a business. Outright.com, for example, is the autopilot version of bookkeeping.
Lithium Technologies
Lithium Acquires Moderation Platform Leader Keibi Technologies
Reuters
date: 06.02.2009
...Lithium Technologies, the leading provider of on-demand customer community solutions for the enterprise, announced that it has acquired Keibi Technologies, Inc., the leader in automated content discovery, analysis, and moderation for online communities
Mochi Media
Mochi Media Network Attracts Nearly 100 Million Online Gamers A Month (comScore)
TechCrunch
date: 05.29.2009
Looking at worldwide traffic, comScore pegs the Mochi Media network to have received a little over 91 million unique visitors last April, or roughly 8.2 per cent of the total traffic measured in the ‘Online Gaming’ category for that month.
Plastic Jungle
Harris: Help for the gift-card challenged
MercuryNews.com
date: 05.27.2009
...Plastic Jungle, a gift-card exchange service that on Tuesday announced it had landed first-round funding of $4.8 million, led by Shasta Ventures.
Mint
The Medium Blog - Home Economics
The New York Times
date: 05.21.2009
Not long ago, Aaron Patzer, the founder of a personal-finance Web site called Mint, posted an update to his Facebook page, marking a milestone for his company...: “To celebrate our one-millionth user, we took the whole team to Napa for the day.”
Mochi Media
WildTangent And Mochi Media Partner For Ads
Virtual Worlds News
date: 05.12.2009
WildTangent and Mochi Media announced that they had partnered today to combine audiences across their collective advertising networks.
Tumri
Tumri Adds Former Platform-A Executive Michael Peralta to Growing Management Team
Tumri
date: 05.05.2009
Global sales and marketing leader brings extensive track record for success to Tumri as Chief Revenue Officer
Zuora
1-Year-Old Zuora Is Paving the Way
E-Commerce Times
date: 04.29.2009
In its first year of doing business, Zuora has changed the way 100 companies handle their billing.
Lithium Technologies
Customer Service? Ask a Volunteer
New York Times
date: 04.25.2009
Verizon explored the alternative of building the Web site and managing the forums itself, but it decided to call on outside expertise...Verizon chose Lithium Technologies, a fast-growing start-up based in Emeryville, Calif.
Outright
Outright software tools free to freelancers
San Francisco Chronicle
date: 03.23.2009
A South Bay company has developed free, Web-based software tools to help freelancers track income, calculate self-employment taxes and do basic bookkeeping.
Doostang
Doostang Inks Collaboration With The Wharton School to Give Students Access to the Best Jobs
Yahoo! Finance
date: 03.11.2009
Doostang, an exclusive online career advancement network for elite professionals, today announced its collaboration with The Wharton School's MBA Career Management Center to provide first and second year MBA students with complimentary access to Doostang's premium job and internship listings.
Mint
Making a Mint on personal finances
CNNMoney.com
date: 03.02.2009
...consumers increasingly are turning to free, Web-based personal finance tools to manage their money. The leading online site is Mint.com...
Zuora
Facebook as an enterprise cloud platform?
Webware
date: 03.02.2009
On the surface, it sounds like an odd couple: Facebook, one of the most recognizable successes in the Web 2.0 firmament, and Zuora, a start-up with a suite of subscription commerce products based on the software as a service model.
Mint
The Six Best Budgeting Sites
Kiplinger
date: 03.01.2009
For a fresh view of your big financial picture, Mint.com is our favorite.
Mochi Media
Mochi Media Games Played By 100M Monthly Uniques
GigaOM
date: 02.23.2009
Today, casual game advertising network Mochi Media is reporting some pretty impressive user numbers: nearly 100 million monthly uniques across the network.
Outright
A Better Way To Keep The Books
Forbes.com
date: 02.20.2009
A chat with ex-Intuit entrepreneur Kevin Reeth about the many benefits of the software-as-a-service model.
Eye-Fi
Photo Geo-Tagging on the Cheap
The New York Times
date: 02.18.2009
Recently I invested $129 in an Eye-Fi Explore SD card. The card, which just won a Good Housekeeping Very Innovative Product award, is a wonder of miniaturization: a two-gigabyte memory card outfitted with a Wi-Fi chipset, which not only allows it to automatically upload photos to my home computer and to my Flickr account but also lets it perform a kind of quasi-GPS, by triangulating nearby Wi-Fi hot spots.
Mocana
Android Vulnerability So Dangerous, Owners Warned Not to Use Phone's Web Browser
The New York Times
date: 02.12.2009
To get a second opinion, we checked in with James Blaisdell, CTO of Mocana, a company who provides embedded security solutions for a litany of devices, including Android. His company recently became the first to provide enterprise-level security solutions to the Android platform with the launch of their NanoPhone Suite for Android, a software package that lets developers add in security into their devices and applications. His company also puts out an anti-malware tool for Android. In other words, he gets Android security.
Outright
Outright.com launches with $2M funding
BusinessJournal
date: 02.10.2009
Outright.com has emerged from stealth mode with $2 million in funding from early-stage investors.
Click Forensics
Battling Click Fraud is Important for All Involved
SEW
date: 01.30.2009
Click Forensics published its numbers for click fraud during Q4 2008 and it appears the fraud numbers are climbing.
Zuora
Zuora: Inside One Software Startup's Multi-Cloud Strategy
AMR Research
date: 01.23.2009
Zuora’s mission is to extend the reach and appeal of cloud services/software-as-a-service products by adding new functionality for subscription management and billing payment.
Zuora
Cash is the new black for cloud apps
ZDNet
date: 01.21.2009
Announced yesterday and currently in private beta pending a full launch once deployment has ramped up, the Z-Commerce Platform from SaaS billing startup Zuora is a set of APIs that expose functions from the company’s existing product set, Z-Billing, Z-Payments and Z-Force...
Outright
Online bookkeeping; Marion Wright Adelman; Joseph Epstein's Fred Astaire
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network
date: 01.06.2009
Kevin Reeth and online bookkeeping; Marion Wright Adelman; Joseph Epstein presents his book, "Fred Astaire"
Roost
Shasta's Pressman swimming with the sharks
TheDeal
date: 12.10.2008
"I would consider myself naturally a contrarian," he said on Tuesday while discussing his firm's investment in online real estate search firm Roost Inc. "In my point of view -- and I certainly could be wrong -- is that when the macro-economic environment is poor, it's a good time to build startups."
Roost
Roost, Inc. Secures $8 Million in New Funding
MarketWatch
date: 12.09.2008
Roost, Inc., the fastest, most comprehensive search engine for finding your dream home, today announced it has secured $8 million in new funding
Tumri
Web Marketing That Hopes to Learn What Attracts a Click
The New York Times
date: 12.02.2008
Online advertisers are not lacking in choices: They can display their ads in any color, on any site, with any message, to any audience, with any image.
Tumri
Online shoppers jump the gun seeking bargains
San Francisco Chronicle
date: 12.01.2008
Hewlett-Packard and Sears, for example, are using new advertising software from Tumri, a venture-funded startup in Mountain View, to offer ads that can change depending on who's looking at them, what Web site they're on, what product is being offered, what region is being targeted or what time period the ad is covering.
Recurve
Green homes: solar vs. energy efficiency
The Christian Science Monitor
date: 11.26.2008
Solar gets more subsidies, but home energy efficiency may be more cost-effective.
Tumri
Re-Imagine Online Advertising with Calvin Lui
Monty C. M. Metzger Blog
date: 11.14.2008
Calvin Lui, CEO of Tumri, is talking about new opportunities for Online Advertising.
Tumri
Tumri CEO, Calvin Lui speaks at Monaco Media Forum 2008 (video)
Monaco Media Forum
date: 11.13.2008
Mochi Media
Mochi Media names new chief executive to spur further growth
VentureBeat
date: 11.13.2008
Mochi Media is announcing today that it has named a new chief executive, George Garrick, who will take over the Flash game advertising company from founder Jameson Hsu.
Zuora
Zuora raises $15M to manage online subscriptions
The New York Times
date: 10.28.2008
Zuora, which offers online services to automate customer subscriptions and payments, has raised $15 million in a second round of funding.
Right90
Forecast: significant chance of more forecasting
The Inside CRM Blog
date: 10.24.2008
Sales forecasting is a tricky task to get right, but several companies are making an effort to tackle it. Standing out from a rather small crowd is Right90, which has relationships with two CRM powerhouses, Salesforce.com and Oracle.
Mint
Mint Out of Beta, Loaded with New Features
lifehacker
date: 10.14.2008
Personal finance webapp Mint.com has graduated from beta development and now offers a variety of new features.
Click Forensics
Google allies with click-fraud detection firm Click Forensics
Computerworld
date: 10.10.2008
In a development that would have seemed impossible two years ago, Google is cooperating publicly with Click Forensics Inc., a click-fraud detection company with which it has had a rocky relationship.
Zuora
If the economy tanks, will subscriptions become a panacea?
CNET
date: 10.07.2008
Chalk it up to happenstance, but Zuora founder Tien Tzuo couldn't have timed it any better. The company on Tuesday morning announced Z-Payments, an online payment service for subscription-based businesses.
Mint
Where's It All Going? Find Out Online
The New York Times
date: 10.03.2008
“Most people don’t know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas,” said Aaron Patzer, the founder and chief executive of Mint, a Web site that collects your financial data and helps you sort it out. “There are big discretionary categories like restaurants, entertainment and shopping that you have a lot of control over, and it’s pretty easy to dial them back.”
Recurve
Sustainable Spaces secures $6MM in funding
Sustainable Spaces
date: 09.23.2008
Sustainable Spaces, a national leader in the growing field of home energy efficiency and health, today announced it has closed its Series A funding. The company secured $6 million dollars from RockPort Capital Partners and Shasta Ventures.
Zenprise
Zenprise Named 2008 Editor's Best Award Winner By Windows It Pro Magazine
PRWeb
date: 08.04.2008
Zenprise announced today that Zenprise for BlackBerry® was named a gold medal winner of the "2008 Editor's Best Awards" in the Mobile and Wireless category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro magazine.
Response Logix
Belo Corp. Invests in ResponseLogix(TM)
PR Newswire
date: 07.22.2008
Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC) announced today that it has made a minority equity investment in ResponseLogix, Inc. and entered into a multi-year agreement to resell the ResponseLogix Internet-based lead management system to its automotive advertisers.
Response Logix
ResponseLogix(TM) Closes $8 Million in New Funding
Forbes.com
date: 07.22.2008
ResponseLogix, Inc. announced today the close of an $8 million Series A round of financing, led by GRP Partners and Shasta Ventures with support from A. H. Belo Corporation and the Belo Corp.
Mochi Media
Casual Games, Hard Money
Forbes.com
date: 07.22.2008
Eric Smith went to summer camp a few years ago, learned to code and in October started creating Web games that have so far earned him $10,000.  The key to the 15-year-old's success has been a sweet game he called "Flash Empires" and a hefty dose of advertisements served up in part by Mochi Media, the casual gaming industry's emerging broker of advertising.
Lithium Technologies
Lithium scores money to grow corporate social networks
VentureBeat
date: 06.30.2008
Lithium Technologies, which builds and operates social networks for enterprises, has raised $12 million in venture capital today.
Eye-Fi
When Your Camera Knows Where You Are
The New York Times
date: 06.26.2008
You know how your digital camera gives every photo an invisible time and date stamp? Well, the Eye-Fi Explore ($130) card invisibly stamps every photo with where you took it. That's right: photo geotagging has finally come to a camera near you.
Doostang
Social Networking on Wall Street
New York Times
date: 06.20.2008
For workers on Wall Street — or those that aspire to be — a site called Doostang has built up considerable cachet, which might make it appealing to investors.
Zenprise
Zenprise's Blackberry Monitoring Solution Named A Winner in the 8th Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards Program
Zenprise
date: 06.10.2008
Zenprise announced today that eWEEK, the industry leader for strategic technology information, has named Zenprise for BlackBerry the winner in eWEEK’s 8th annual Excellence Awards program in the Mobile and Wireless category.
Apptio
Apptio Emerges From Stealth to Give Enterprises Worldwide More Visibility Into the Costs of IT
Apptio
date: 06.09.2008
Apptio, the pioneer of on-demand IT Cost Transparency solutions, made its official debut today.
Clickability
Clickability Wins 2008 CODiE Award for Best Content Management Solution
PR Newswire
date: 05.22.2008
Clickability, Inc., the global leader in on demand Web Content Management (WCM), today announced that it was awarded Best Content Management Solution by the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA) at the 23rd Annual CODiE Awards Gala in San Francisco, California.
Mint
Tracking Your Money Without Paying a Mint
WSJ
date: 04.30.2008
Mint hopes to help users get a better handle on where their money is going, how much is in each account, and what can be done to budget that money more efficiently.
Mint
Tracking Your Money Without Paying a Mint
The Wall Street Journal
date: 04.30.2008
Free Web Service Follows Accounts And Spending
Right90
Right90 Named to JMP Securities' Hot 100
Reuters
date: 04.30.2008
Right90, the leading provider of sales forecasting and performance management software, has been included in the JMP Securities March 2008 report, "Hot 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies."
Spiceworks
Gartner Names Spiceworks One of Six 2008 ''Cool Vendors in IT Operations''
Business Wire
date: 04.10.2008
Spiceworks(TM), Inc., the provider of the industry's first free ad-supported IT management software, today announced it was named a 2008 "Cool Vendor in IT Operations" by Gartner, Inc., a leading information technology research and advisory company.
Mint
Making a Mint
Forbes Magazine
date: 04.10.2008
Mint is a gold mine for those looking to take the tedium out of budgeting.
Flock
In Browsers, Flock may lead the Flock
BusinessWeek
date: 04.08.2008
The new service still has hurdles to overcome, but after two weeks this reviewer is already a convert.
SayNow
Dialing it up with SayNow
Billboard
date: 04.04.2008
SayNow Helps Stars And Devotees Keep In Touch
Arch Rock
Arch Rock Builds Internet Protocol Links Into Wireless Sensors
Information Week
date: 03.31.2008
Wireless sensor vendor Arch Rock has Internet Protocol-enabled its end points to eliminate the need for a separate router with each sensor and to enable wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to interact more richly with enterprise systems and applications.
Lithium Technologies
Lithium Technologies Wins 2008 WizKids Award
Business Wire
date: 03.27.2008
Lithium Technologies today announced its selection as a recipient of the 2008 WizKids Award, presented by Beagle Research Group, LLC. The award is presented annually to a select group of emerging companies that provide business solutions designed to advance new or improved business processes. Lithium was the only community provider selected.
UpTake
Kango Announces Name Change to UpTake
Marketwire
date: 03.26.2008
Kango, a travel search and discovery application, announced today that it has changed its name to UpTake.  "'UpTake' refers to a quick understanding of key facts. We believe the new name, UpTake, describes our core offering -- the aggregation and analysis of collective wisdom such as reviews, blogs and articles from across the Web to help consumers plan their trips," said Yen Lee, UpTake president and founder.
Right90
Right90 Named 'Cool Vendor' by Leading Analyst Firm
PR Newswire
date: 03.25.2008
Right90, the leading provider of sales forecast performance management tools, has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the "Cool Vendors in Consumer Goods, 2008" report published on March 17, 2008 and authored by Gartner analysts Peter Bambridge, Dan Miklovic and Dale Hagemeyer.
TeeBeeDee
The 10 Best Sites for Baby Boomers
PC Magazine
date: 03.24.2008
These online resources cater specifically to the 50-and-up crowd, with attractions like social networking, jobs after retirement, health tips, and more.
Click Forensics
Click Forensics Expands Management Team with Appointment of Paul Pellman as CEO
Yahoo Finance
date: 03.21.2008
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Click Forensics™, Inc., the leading provider of traffic quality management solutions, today announced the appointment of Paul Pellman to the position of CEO. Following the company’s recently closed $10 million Series B funding round, the addition of Mr. Pellman is part of its strategy to support growing demand for the Click Forensics traffic quality and click fraud monitoring solutions.
Click Forensics
Click Forensics tracks down $10 million in funding
CNET
date: 03.12.2008
Click fraud is the search industry's dirty little secret--one that Google and Yahoo like to keep mum about. But a company that tracks the rates at which people, or bots, fraudulently click on paid search links just got a financial boost to work a little harder on its beat.
Mint
Personal finance site nabs $12 million from Benchmark
CNET
date: 03.05.2008
Mint, a personal finance site akin to Quicken, said Wednesday that it raised $12 million in a series "B" round of financing led by Benchmark Capital, the venerable VC behind eBay and Amazon.com.
Turn
Start-up Turn offers automated online ad market
CNET
date: 03.03.2008
A Redwood City, Calif. start-up called Turn is launching on Monday a beta of what it says is the first fully automated market for online advertising.
Zenprise
Zenprise on BlackBerry Outage
TMCnet
date: 02.12.2008
With so many BlackBerry users wondering what caused yesterday's network outage, and whether it will happen again, TMCnet took some time to speak with Zenprise, a provider of automated troubleshooting software, for a closer look.
Mint
The Best Free Software 2008
PCMag
date: 02.08.2008
Mint isn't like Quicken, where you enter in all your transactions. Instead, it syncs with your bank and credit card accounts online, checks your spending habits, and tells you how to improve to save money.
Eye-Fi
Eye-Fi keeps on rolling
Macworld
date: 01.31.2008
Eye-Fi, the company that makes the 2GB SD card with wireless access built-in, continues to build momentum in the market.
Tumri
Google Mafia Update: AdSense's Gokul Rajaram Joins Tumri Board
TechCrunch
date: 01.28.2008
Ever since Google options finished vesting, people have been wondering what will become of the Googlers after they take their money and jump into something new. Google’s former Product Management Director for AdSense, Gokul Rajaram has decided to take a position on the board of Tumri, a display advertising startup that delivers dynamically targeted ads.
Mint
Got cash?
Fortune
date: 01.25.2008
The one getting the most buzz is Mint.com; it was named startup of the year at a tech conference last fall. Mint has picked up 100,000 members in less than six months.
Mint
Making A Mint
Forbes.com
date: 01.03.2008
In March 2007, Patzer created Mint.com, a free Web application that allows users to automatically track and analyze their financial transactions, set budgets, and even send balance updates in text messages to cell phones.
Spiceworks
The Man Behind Ad-Supported Software
Information Week
date: 12.15.2007
Spiceworks was founded on the idea that network administrators would embrace easy-to-use management tools. Giving those tools away was an afterthought, but one that has forced people to rethink long-held assumptions about software distribution and licensing.
Mint
A MapQuest for Our Money
New York Times
date: 11.22.2007
I signed up at the personal-finance site Mint.com, which promised to organize our accounts to show me on a single Web site exactly where my money goes.
Eye-Fi
No Excuses: a Wire-Free Way to Upload Photos
Wall Street Journal - The Mossberg Solution
date: 11.21.2007
I thought this thing was too good to be true and set out to find its flaws. But after using it with two digital cameras (one brand new and the other over three years old), three different computers (each with different operating systems) and five photo-sharing sites, I'm convinced that the Eye-Fi is a terrific little tool.
Mint
Video: Mint at TechCrunch40 2007
TechCrunch
date: 09.18.2007
Aaron Patzer on Productivity & Web Apps
Mint
Mint Wins TechCrunch40 Top Company Award
TechCrunch
date: 09.18.2007
Jason Calacanis just announced that Mint was chosen as the best presenting company at TechCrunch40.
Tumri
The Next Small Thing
Business Week
date: 07.23.2007
There's a land grab under way in Silicon Valley. Not in real land, but on the Web. What's fueling the frenzy is something that couldn't sound more prosaic: widgets. Any little guy with a Web page can sign up for the Tumri widget stores and pick which product categories to advertise or sell on their site.
Click Forensics
Click Fraud Goes Viral
Forbes
date: 07.19.2007
As the Web giant gets fatter, so do its parasites. The percentage of clicks on online ads that were fraudulent climbed to 15.8% in the second quarter of 2007, an increase of a full percentage point in just three months.
Logoworks
HP buys into SaaS with LogoWorks acquisition
ZDNet
date: 04.25.2007
The HP-Logoworks marriage will undoubtedly be fruitful, it follows a two year courtship.
Logoworks
HP to buy LogoWorks
Reuters
date: 04.24.2007
HP said its acquisition of Logoworks' technology and services would give the computer and printer maker an opportunity to offer small businesses access to professional design solutions at a fraction of market cost.