Friday, February 19, 2016

Enterprise - Startup Digest - February 19th - February 26th

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February 19, 2016

The latest news about growth and innovation within the enterprise space.

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Enterprise Startup Digest is curated by:
Mohammad Albattikhi

Mohammad Albattikhi - Acceleration Manager at Oasis500

Contact Mohammad Albattikhi at mohd.albattikhi@startupdigestmail.com

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Alphabet Now Has Its Own Think Tank, as Google Ideas Becomes Jigsaw

ReCode

"Jigsaw is where Google thinks up ways to solve the world's biggest problems, like privacy or Web security or even money laundering. Among the other challenges Jigsaw is trying to solve: Organized crime, police brutality, human trafficking and terrorism"

SAP Acquires Datango's Software, Entering Enterprise Training Race

Information Week

"The move is significant in that Datango offers a new paradigm for enterprise software training, but that significance is tempered by the sorry state of training content and the unfortunately legitimate attitude of many a CIO that spending big on training is wasted."

SAP buys Factory Logic

Lean Blog

"Lean software provider Factory Logic, based in Austin TX, has been purchased by powerhouse SAP (who had been an investor in recent years). Rumor has it that the purchasing price was less than the $30 million+ that was invested in Factory Logic by venture capitalists over the past six years"

EMC, VMware unveil hyperconverged VxRail appliance

ZDNet

"The aim is to create software defined storage natively integrated with vSphere in a single product family with one point of support"

Droplr's screenshotting app for Slack takes the pain out of sharing

The Next Web

"The new app – called Screenbot – not only lets you share screenshots by plugging into the Slack API (a little like Snip and Share for Chrome), along with annotations, screencasts or an entire Web page too"

SAP to acquire SAF for $100 mn

Live mint

"New Delhi: Global IT firm SAP on Thursday said it is looking to acquire Switzerland-based software developer SAF AG for around $100 million"

Toss Lab, the Creators of Enterprise Communication Platform JANDI, Raises Capital From Qualcomm and HnAP

Digital Journal

"Qualcomm, through its venture investment group Qualcomm Ventures, and HnAP led the raise, bringing Toss Lab's total pre-Series A funding to over USD 4.5M - JANDI grew over 40% a month in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea last year and is eyeing new geographies in 2016"

Nlyte Software Buys FieldView for Added Data Center Insight

E Week

"Nlyte Software, which last year created a new IT market segment (data center service management), disclosed toeWEEK Feb. 3 the acquisition of FieldView Solutions, which provides real-time event correlation, alarming and analytics software to the data center industry."

SAP acquires Maxware, Wicom Communications

Tech Target

SAP acquired two European companies Wicom Communications and Maxware and fill in its contact center functionality.

Microsoft's SwiftKey Purchase Is About Artificial Intelligence, Not Software Keyboards

ReCode

"Microsoft's purchase of Britain's SwiftKey software keyboard company has less to do with the mechanics of entering text on a touchscreen and everything to do with the growing role that context is playing in artificial intelligence"

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