UK-based startup game company reaches one million players…and counting
VentureBeat, April 11, by Jacob Lopez The makers of child-aimed social trading-card game Fight My Monster have just announced that they have reached their one [...]
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nginx Continues Its Rise to the Top of the Web Server Market
By Josette Rigsby (@techielicous) Apr 5, 2012 We reported in January that open source webserver nginx was gaining adoption and had managed to surpass Microsoft IIS in the number [...]
Russia’s Fast Lane flips again with Shopping Live sale
GigaOM, by Bobbie Johnson Apr. 5, 2012 Just two years after launching its incubator for Russian web companies, Moscow-based Fast Lane Ventures is making its second significant exit with [...]
Eucalyptus Inks Deal With Amazon
Santa Barbara-based Eucalpytus Systems, the developer of cloud software deployment tools, has inked a major deal today, with Amazon.com. Amazon is tapping Eucalyptus to make it easier [...]
Groupon floats subscription plan
Groupon Inc. is testing a new program called Groupon VIP, a subscription-based loyalty program that represents the Chicago-based daily deals company’s first foray into a [...]
Peanut Labs Makes Online Market Surveys Quick And Cheap With CrowdVi.be
Having built a socially-driven market research business on Facebook and across the web, Peanut Labs is launching a new iteration of its crowd-sampling tool today called CrowdVi.be. The [...]
Eucalyptus Launches Enterprise-Class Cloud Test Lab
February 13, 2012 – CLOUD CONNECT – CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE: COR), a U.S. provider of powerful, network-rich data centers, today announced that Eucalyptus Systems, creators of the most [...]
How Sonos Outshines Apple in Home Audio
Sonos should have been roadkill beneath Apple’s tires. The Santa Barbara, Calif., start-up was formed by a software entrepreneur, John MacFarlane, in 2002 with a plan [...]
nCircle Announces Identity and Access Management Premium Scorecard Pack for nCircle Benchmark
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 08, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — nCircle, the leader in automated security and compliance auditing solutions, today announced the release of the nCircle [...]
BlueKai: DMPs can hold high value for publishers
A new report out from BlueKai could help publishers put a value on Data Management Platforms (DMPs). While creating targeting segments, a quality DMP will help publishers [...]