THE BUSINESS OF TECHNOLOGY
Piazza, a question and answer sharing platform for students and professors, recently landed $6 million in Series A funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Kapor Capital and Felice Ventures. The company also has backing from SV Angel and Sequoia Capital. Piazza enables a Q&A platform in which students share and answer … [Read more...]
As companies move data from behind firewalls and into the cloud and employees increasingly use their own mobile devices to access that data, security must adapt to meet the demands of a new era. To increase its arsenal in the cyber security war, ThreatMetrix has acquired TrustDefender, a detector of malware based attacks, as first reported by … [Read more...]
Automation software provider Synchronoss bought Miyowa, a mobile social network maker, $45.5 million in cash, plus earn outs of up to $13.5 million if performance targets are met over the next several quarters. A leading provider of social network and messaging software for mobile devices, Miyowa can be found on over 100 million devices … [Read more...]
Microsoft was recently awarded a patent designed to provide walking directions that not only avoid crime ridden neighborhoods, but windy breezeways to boot. First discovered by Geekwire, the “Pedestrian route production” patent is designed to create an intelligent maps application that adjusts directions to the surroundings, schedule, preference … [Read more...]