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Thinknum Raises $1 Million As Company Evolves From Two-Man Startup
Monday, July 28, 2014 - 1:02pm | 428Five months ago, Thinknum was a bootstrapped, two-man startup. The company built an open Web platform for financial analysis and had already attracted the likes of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM). Now, the company has announced that it has raised $1 million in a seed round...
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Google And Others Join Forces To 'Troll-Proof' Their Patents
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 3:38pm | 594That old saying, “strength in numbers” rings true, especially when those numbers include the likes of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). To that end, Re/Code reported, the tech giant, along with Canon (NYSE: CAJ), SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), Newegg, Dropbox and Asana have all joined forces to...
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Box Just Did Something Rare For A Company About To Go Public
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 11:57am | 596It is rare for a company that has already filed for an IPO to seek new financing. Box Inc. did just that Monday, raising $150 million from private equity firm, TPG Growth and from Coatue Management, L.L.C. According to The Wall Street Journal, data from Dow Jones VentureSource indicated that...
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Could Bitcoin Disrupt More Than Finance?
Monday, July 7, 2014 - 3:39pm | 696Many people are still trying to understand bitcoin. The underlying technology -- a person-to-person digital exchange -- appears to be moving forward at a breakneck pace. And this year, unprecedented business models are being built on top of bitcoin-like technologies. Many investors have a hard...
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Sources: Box Now Planning July Or August IPO
Friday, June 20, 2014 - 9:39am | 679Cloud storage company Box will arrive late to its own IPO party, but it will arrive. At least that’s according to sources who spoke with Re/Code Thursday. In addition, those same sources said the company was not for sale. Period. According to the sources, Box hopes to complete its initial...
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Dropbox Acquires MobileSpan To Bolster BYOD Security
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 10:12am | 585Dropbox is in full acquisition mode; Tuesday it bought startup MobileSpan, a company that helps employees access corporate firewalled content from their personal devices in a secure manner. According to the MobileSpan website, the company will shut down at the end of 2014, and active...
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Dropbox Acquires Startup Droptalk
Friday, June 6, 2014 - 10:56am | 700Dropbox, the startup that won’t stop, has acquired another startup called Droptalk according to TechCrunch. Droptalk developed a tool, available so far only in limited beta, that allows users to share links privately with friends via a Chrome extension. The plan was to offer iOS and...
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Could A Ruling Against Aereo Kill The Cloud?
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 10:09am | 825U.S. Supreme Court justices Tuesday seemed to be wondering aloud whether the case against startup Aereo was also linked to cloud computing. The Associated Press reported Justice Stephen Breyer saying, “Are we somehow catching other things that would really change life and shouldn’t?” The “...
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Dropbox Continues Its March Towards An IPO, With Carousel Launch
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 4:20pm | 550Privately-owned Dropbox isn’t on the stock exchanges, yet. But with each new move, the company seems to be heading in the direction of an initial public offering. Most recently it unveiled Carousel, a product designed to store and manage your photos and videos. The app incorporates features...
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Google Gmail To Add 'Snooze Button' And Much More
Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 11:58am | 520In an attempt to make Gmail more useful, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is reportedly in the process of developing several new features. One of them is a Snooze Button. According to Geek.com, email you consider important, but not critical, could be “snoozed.” This would cause the message to go into...
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Box Files For Initial Public Offering
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 11:15am | 629Enterprise-focused cloud-based file-management service Box said Monday, via tweet that it was planning a $250 million IPO. A short while later, re/code said the filing had gone live. Box launched in 2005 as an academic project created by CEO Aaron Levie in his dorm room at USC. According...
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The Ins & Outs Of The GoDaddy IPO Plan
Monday, March 17, 2014 - 10:47am | 454According to a story first reported by The Wall Street Journal, GoDaddy is preparing for an IPO. GoDaddy, the internet domain registrar and web host, is now the largest internet domain registrar in the world. The company is owned by a consortium of private equity groups including Kohlberg...
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Box Appears To Have Secretly Filed For IPO, Could Go Public As Soon As April 2014
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 12:53pm | 372Box, the online cloud-storage company, has quietly filed for an initial public offering, according to a report from Quartz and confirmed by Forbes. Box, one of the main competitors to the extremely popular cloud-storage service Dropbox, took a page out of Twitter's playbook by opting to secretly...
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Would You Buy Twitter's IPO?
Friday, September 13, 2013 - 1:03pm | 686In what can only be described as the biggest surprise announcement of the week, Twitter announced that it has confidentially submitted an S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission for a planned IPO. It did not take more than a few hours for this became the most talked about story in technology...
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Barron's Recap: Netflix Versus The TV Titans
Sunday, August 4, 2013 - 9:56am | 872This weekend in Barron's online: the future of TV, what's next for the Dell buyout, upcoming IPOs and the prospects for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Franklin Resources. Cover Story "The Future of TV" by Alexander Eule. Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is having a good summer, points out Barron's,...