There’s a certain kind of geek who gets excited about Twilio. Who among software developers wouldn’t jump at the chance of adding voice-calling and text-messaging options to a public-facing application? Companies like eBay unit StubHub, Salesforce...
When you really get down to it, when we’re at work, we’re really just a bunch of school kids. When I was in first grade, my teacher Mrs. Dorwort would draw stars and happy faces on a paper that was largely correct. I preferred stars myself and onc...
Amid the current craze for enterprise collaboration software, somehow Atlassian had escaped my attention. Ten years old, based in Sydney and San Francisco, backed by a $60 million investment from Accel Partners, and sporting annual revenues north ...
The rumors are true. But, boy, were they ever off on the numbers. Social enterprise software player Yammer has landed a whopping $85 million in a fifth round of venture capital funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, with Meritech Capital Partners...
Shares of Jive are getting a lot of love today, in part because of a positive mention over the weekend by our friends over at Barron’s. As of 2:20 pm ET, Jive’s share price was up 7.5 percent to $18.36, which is nearly as high as it has traded eve...
I recently spent the weekend at a unique event that brought founders, entrepreneurs and investors together. I was fortunate enough to spend time with the original pioneer of social networking – Andrew Weinreich, the founder and original CEO of Six...
Okay, okay, we get it: Morgan Stanley got the coveted left-hand lead position on Facebook’s blockbuster IPO filing. Goldman Sachs is there too, but in the third-place, always-a-bridesmaid spot and is crying big salty tears about the injustice of i...
You should and this week you will, given the less well known exec has been one of the prime movers behind what is expected to be the blockbuster offering of Web 2.0 — Facebook’s impending IPO. And while the social networking site’s movietastic Co-...
As AllThingsD.com wrote two weeks ago it would be — Facebook is close to filing its documents for a long expected public offering that is on track take place in late May. The Wall Street Journal said last week the filing would come Wednesday, alth...
When the early social search engine Wowd started to wind down last year, its assets were divided among three parties: Facebook, which “acqhired” seven of its engineers and licensed its technology; Jildy, a new start-up created by a Wowd co-founder...
Another company building human resources software that runs in the cloud has just been acquired, and the buyer is Salesforce.com. Salesforce just announced that it is buying Rypple, an oddly-named outfit that specializes in performance management ...
Shares of Jive Software, the social enterprise and collaboration software company, will price today and will debut on the Nasdaq exchange tomorrow morning, sources familiar with the matter tell AllThingsD. The debut will cap a process that began i...
