• Google to double encryption key lengths for SSL certs by years end

  Google is about to start the first upgrade to its SSL certification system in recent memory, and will move to 2048-bit encryption keys by the end of 2013. The first tranche of changes is planned for August 1. The new requirements are laid out in ...

• KC business owner charged in $2.8M scheme to defraud Army

  The owner of a Kansas City office supply company has been accused of a $2.8 million scheme to defraud the U.S. Army. Virgie Dillard, 70, of Lee's Summit, the CEO of Missouri Office Systems & Supplies Inc., sold counterfeit computer equipment to the Army, according to a 12-count indictment unsealed Thursday. An employee, Roland Evans, 43, of Lee's Summit, was also charged, along with Mark ...

• Homegrown talent An answer to Silicon Valleys STEM shortage Video

  If youve heard it once, youve heard it a million times: Silicon Valley has a serious tech talent problem. Microsoft Corp,s can attest to that first hand. We have 6,000 job openings more than half of which are for high tech jobs that we cannot fill, said Sid Espinosa, Microsofts director of corporate citizenship at an event at the tech giants Mountain View campus on Thursday. We have to go ...

• How DrupalCon coders are helping Oklahoma City recover

  About 70 DrupalCon attendees helped conceive and develop the help4ok.org website to assist with recovery efforts in Oklahoma City. More than 70 developers attending DrupalCon in Portland this week took time out to make a major contribution to the recovery effort in Oklahoma City. Twenty-four people were killed and more than 1,000 homes were damaged or destroyed when a massive tornado swept ...

• The unanswered question after earnings Will HPs bets pay off

  Hewlett-Packard is way up. Is its salvation at hand? Hewlett-Packard Co.'s earnings yesterday weren't great, but the stock price closed up more than 17 percent at $24.86 today. A deeper dive into the financials reveals the reason why: While revenue is slipping in basically every category besides printers, HP has slashed its expenditures, increased its cash flow, paid down debt, and has ...

• Demandbase Named to JMP Securities Hot 100 List of Best Privately Held Software Companies

  business to business marketers, has been named to JMP Securities’ ';Hot 100: Best Privately Held Software Companies for 2013″ list for the fourth straight year. Issued in May 2013, the list profiles 100 of the leading private companies in the software industry as identified by the software research team at JMP Securities, a full-service investment bank. The ‘Hot ...

• No Longer Dominating Its Market TiVo Plots a Software Comeback

  TiVo has become the Kleenex of the TV world — a once dominant brand that’s become a generic commodity. Yes, we still call recording a TV show ';TiVoing.'; But as cable and satellite companies started offering their own DVRs and cheap streaming boxes from Roku, Apple and others flooded the market, TiVO has been increasingly marginalized and risks irrelevancy. That’s ...

• Yahoos design chief Parsey to depart

  Tim Parsey, Yahoo Inc.'s SVP of user experience design, will be leaving his position, according to AllThingsD. Parsey's work as Yahoo's design chief can be seen in the major redesigns of several of the company's products, including the homepage, Flickr, and email, among others. There's no telling what his next stop will be, but it may be seen as a significant loss to Yahoo. ...

• Pandora Media loses $28.6 million in first quarter

  Pandora Media Inc. lost $28.6 million in the April quarter, pushing its accumulated deficit -- that's how much money it has lost or written off since it started -- to $168.1 million. The Oakland company (NYSE: P) lost $20.2 million a year ago in the first quarter. Sales rose to $125.5 million in the quarter, up from $80.8 million a year ago, with strong gains in both advertising sales and ...

• Will Phillip Frost bid for TLO in bankruptcy

  Phillip Frost, Tom Glocer and Jules Kroll. Wealthy entrepreneur Phillip Frost has joined a new acquisition company making an appearance in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedure of Boca Raton data company TLO LLC. Frosts new company, conspicuously named Data Acquisitions Group LLC, filed papers with the state of Florida on Tuesday. Other members include Jules Kroll of Kroll Inc. and Tom Glocer, ...

• Confio Software and Forrester Consulting Present Data Quantifying 268 Percent Return on Investment with Ignite

  commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on the Total Economic Impact of Confio’s flagship software, Ignite, which shows that the database performance management software provides more than 268 percent return on investment and generates millions in economic value for corporations that implement it. The Forrester study concludes that companies benefit financially from ...

• Network-1 Commences Patent Litigation against Vendors of Operating System Software and Computer Systems

  NEW YORK, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Network-1 Security Solutions, Inc. (OTC BB: NSSI) announced today that its subsidiary, Mirror Worlds Technologies, LLC ("MWT"), has initiated patent litigation against several vendors of document system software and computer systems in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, for infringement of U.S. ...

• Microsoft Names SherWeb 2013 World Hosting Partner of the Year

  SherWeb , a leading provider of Microsoft business cloud solutions, today announced it has been named the 2013 World Hosting Partner of the Year by Microsoft ...

• China Silicon Valley nonprofit boosts ties Video

  Why Silicon Valley is important to China and what San Jose and the region is doing about it, according to Victor Wang of Hanhai Investments and zPark Venture, and Kim Walesh, San Jose's Economic Development. Interviewed by Senior Technology Reporter Cromwell Schubarth after they spoke at the Silicon Valley Business Journal's International Business Forum on May 23. Victor Wang of Hanhai ...

• Attention non-tech companies Ignore Google+

  Businesses overwhelmed with social medias buffet of current options can ignore at least one dish, a Kansas City social media professional advised Thursday. Not having a full-time social media staffer means focusing resources where the customers are, said Alisha Templeton, social media manager for Ameristar Casinos Inc. To be the most efficient, she recommended beginning with Twitter and Facebook ...

• Is protecting intellectual property from cyber thieves futile

  Mandiant report earlier in the year linking China's People's Liberation Army ongoing and massive cyberattacks against U.S. corporations, government agencies, universities and other organizations, policy makers and industry experts have been trying to figure out how to better secure their intellectual property against cyberattacks. Call it a work in progress. "The frustration for ...

• Messaging app imo.im raises $13.3 million

  MSN , Steam, VKontakte and Yahoo. The service enables private and group chat, sharing of multimedia files and photos, voice and text messaging and searching of chat histories. The company claims more than 7 million mobile downloads, 750,000 unique daily visitors and delivery of an average of 50 million messages per ...

• SolarImpulse could inspire a generation pilots say

  Pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andr Borschberg stand with a flag marking the historic flight at DFW airport Thursday morning. Breaking the world record for distance in a solar-powered aircraft wasnt easy for Andre Borschberg. The more than 18-hour flight went 860 miles from Phoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Weather is a constant challenge for the SolarImpulse because of its ...

• Software maker Datical raises $1M financing

  From left, Robert Reeves, Daniel Nelson and Pete Pickerill are the founders of Datical Inc. Software maker Datical Inc. completed a $1 million financing. The Austin-based company collected the capital from 10 investors, according to a Thursday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Datical, which was founded in 2012, develops database management software. It was launched by ...

• GVTC Foundation raises record amount at its annual golf tournament

  The GVTC Foundation raised a record$110,344 for area non-profit agencies during its annual Charitable Golf Classic. The GVTC Foundations 2013 GVTC Charitable Golf Classic raised $110,344 for area non-profit agencies, besting last years record by $1,000. The foundation affiliated with Hill Country telecommunications provider GVTC Communications Inc. will use the funds to support nonprofit ...

• Six ways to bridge the Silicon Valley-China gap

  What's your company's strategy for doing business with China? Not news: Chinese investment is pouring into Silicon Valley, and local companies are going after a piece of that action. News: This morning I spoke with six executives at that business crossroads who delivered six tips on bridging cultural and economic divides between Silicon Valley and China. Those were just some of the tasty ...

• Expert Panel Web Real-Time Communications Transforming Customer Service

  Macadamian's Jean-Francois Morin (right) used Web Real-Time Communication technology today in Ottawa to activate a browser-to-browser video call from a laptop to an Android tablet held by Macadamian's Doug Michaelides during WebRTC: Transforming Enterprise Communication. Experts agreed immediate customer service opportunities exist for content providers, contact centres and online ...

• Russia-Backed Software Company Files for $80 Million US IPO

  WASHINGTON, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Luxoft Holding, Inc., a subsidiary of Moscow-based information technology services provider, IBS Group Holding Limited, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange. The regulatory filing with the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) shows the company is preparing for an $80 million IPO. The number of shares to be ...

• TechStars Boston class touts throng of paying customers slideshow

  LinkCycle - Software which aims to help manufacturers reduce energy use, without deploying any extra hardware. The software, which can be used on an iPad, works by mapping the flow of electricity through manufacturing equipment and finding inefficiencies. LinkCycle has five customers so far using the software, in a total of seven facilities. Among the customers is Rubbermaid, which has found $1 ...

• Game change with these ten types of innovation

  Larry Keeley is co-author of Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthrough and co-founder of an innovation strategy firm, Doblin, the innovation practice of Monitor Deloitte within Deloitte Consulting LLP. So heres a question: Which are more innovative: big companies or little companies? Bet your instinct was little companies, right? Our faith in brilliant entrepreneurs is ...

• Shazams new app turns your iPad into an insatiable eavesdropper

  If using an iPad, Shazam users will no longer have to actively tag a sound byte from a song or TV show. It can be done automatically. New Yorkers, you may have a new reason to bring your iPads along for your commutes -- or to leave them behind, depending on how you feel about a device eavesdropping on your entire day. Shazam has announced from London that the company has launched a complete ...

• Ironwood to raise $136M to support launch of IBS treatment drug

  Peter Hecht, CEO, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals On Friday, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq:IRWD) will close on an offering which will raise $136 million for the company to use to fuel the recent launch of its first drug on the market. The offering of 1.5 million shares at $13 a share was announced on Tuesday, and is the Cambridge, Mass.-based biotechs companys second offering so far this year. ...

• Ridesharing startup Lyft picks up a $60M round led by Andreesen Horowitz

  Lyft is swimming in fresh cash, having raised a $60 million round of Series C funding, led by Andreesen Horowitz. Pink mustachioed ridesharing startup Lyft is cruising in the fast lane, having picked up a cool $60 million Series C, led by Palo Alto-based power investors Andreesen Horowitz. The San Francisco startup has now raised a total of $82.5 million in venture funding since 2009. It raised ...

• Michael Chasen finally explains how SocialRadar works

  SocialRadar founder Michael Chasen At long last, Michael Chasen former Blackboard CEO and current chief of SocialRadar very publicly explains what his new startup does. Here's Chasen, being interviewed this week at the CTIA 2013 expo in Las Vegas. First, the why: Today there's over 1 billion smartphones in the world, and a smartphone for all intents and purposes is a location beacon ...

• Phil Zimmerman creator of PGP encryption talks about the importance of privacy software online

  meets CEO and founder of Silent Circle Phil Zimmerman. Phil discusses how he created one of the earliest online email encryption software, PGP, and why his new venture in the app market is proving a popular with security services and businesses around the world.In her latest Email from ...

• Dream software boosts power of DNA

  The new software, called STRmix, has the ability to unscramble DNA found at crime scenes from up to four people - giving results that were previously not possible. It has already caught the attention of the United States Army, which sent a team of people to Auckland for a workshop at the Environmental Science and Research (ESR) Mt Albert laboratory to learn more about the software, with a ...

• GSA announces governmentwide BPA to consolidate wireless service

  The General Services Administration has signed a blanket purchase agreement with four telecommunications companies to consolidate its wireless service plans and centralize management, FedScoop reports. AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp., T-Mobile USA Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. are part of the agreement, which could bring approximately $300 million in savings over the next five years, ...

• Imo.im raises $13.3 million from company cofounder

  Mobile- and desktop-based messaging app imo.im raised $13.3 million this week to compete with bigger incumbents like WhatsApp. Palo Alto-based messaging app imo.im this week closed a $13.3 million round of funding, led by the companys cofounder (and early Google employee) Georges Harik. The messaging space is incredibly crowded right now, with big players like Santa Clara-based WhatsApp handling ...

• SRA International promotes David Keffer to corporate controller role

  SRA International Inc. promoted its chief financial officer to corporate controller, the Fairfax-based company announced Wednesday. David Keffer will lead the companys accounting organization, including financial reporting, treasury and cash management, accounting systems, and financial planning and analysis. He previously was CFO of the Intelligence, Homeland Security and Law Enforcement, and ...

• Alkermes posts fourth quarter gains changes fiscal year

  Alkermes CEO Richard Pops Just weeks after biopharmaceutical company Alkermes plc (Nasdaq: ALKS) released positive preliminary results of a Phase 2 clinical study of its drug to treat major depressive disorder, the Waltham, Mass. and Dublin-based company released even stronger fourth quarter results for its fiscal year ended March 31. The company, which says it will change its fiscal year-end ...

• Marissa Mayers startup shopping spree continues with PlayerScale acquisition

  Marissa Mayer on Thursday purchased her 12th company as Yahoo's CEO, acquiring Belmont-based PlayerScale. Another day, another acquisition from Sunnyvale-based Yahoo. The Internet giant on Thursday announced it was buying Belmont-based gaming infrastructure startup PlayerScale. Terms of the deal were not released. Todays news comes just days after Marissa Mayers $1.1 billion acquisition of ...

• Wibidata raises $15 million

  WibiData, a maker of technology that uses data to make better computer applications, has raised a $15 million in a Series B round of funding led by Canaan Partners, with other investors including NEA and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. Founded in 2010 by CEO Christophe Bisciglia, previously founder of the hot data software company Cloudera, and Aaron Kimball, creator of Apache Sqoop, San ...

• ChannelAdvisor Riding The E-Commerce Megatrend

  ChannelAdvisor pulled off its IPO, raising $81 million. So far, the shares are up about 34% to $18.70. That's pretty good in light of today's bear move in the markets. "I got the kernel of the idea for ChannelAdvisor while ...

• Intellectual property Fighting China’s hackers

  IT SOUNDS like an airport thriller: a near-future in which American firms wage private cyber-combat against Chinese rivals. But precisely that scenario is being considered by former senior American officials, who report that intellectual property (IP) is being stolen on an unprecedented scale, and that passive defences no longer work. Annual losses from the theft of American IP are probably on ...

• UPDATE 1-E-commerce software maker ChannelAdvisor soars in debut

  Thu May 23, 2013 12:15pm EDT * Shares jump as much as 39 percent * Investors bet company will benefit from global e-commerce growth * ChannelAdvisor plans to help companies sell through Alibaba marketplaces By Alistair Barr and Tanya Agrawal May 23 (Reuters) - ChannelAdvisor Corp shares soared as much as 39 percent in their market debut on Thursday as investors bet the e-commerce software ...

• Clean Harbors stands by to help with Oklahoma tornadoes

  Clean Harbors is on standby and may be deployed to assist in the clean up of the damage, shown here at Plaza Elementary School, caused by the Oklahoma tornadoes. Norwell, Mass.-based environmental management firm Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) is on standby in the efforts to clean up Mondays devastation in Oklahoma from tornadoes that killed 24 and caused millions of dollars in damage. Jim Buckley, ...

• Auctioning .art New top level domains could sell for tens of millions of dollars

  Top-level domain auction house Cramton Associates created a word cloud to visually represent the domains with the most applications. Bellevue-based Donuts will be part of 63 private auctions of some of these words in June. Great art has always been valuable, but the word art itself may never have been more valuable than it will be this summer. The right to distribute some of the most attractive ...

• InnovateVMS startups report $43 million in 2012 revenue

  Phyllis Ellison, executive director, Innovate Venture Mentoring Service Innovate Venture Mentoring Service (IVMS) last night celebrated its sixth birthday and released an annual report that tracks the progress of the companies the organization has mentored. The mentor group is part of the non-profit Innovate St. Louis and has actively mentored 187 companies since its inception. The event last ...

• 10 things Martha Stewart taught me about business

  We also found out at Tuesday's Face 2 Face event that Martha Stewart is a bit of techie but knows its limits. Read more here. Earlier this week as part of the ABJs Face 2 Face event series, I spent an hour with Martha Stewart talking almost exclusively about business. This is an entrepreneur who has amassed a reported net worth of $638 million as she has built one of the worlds most ...

• F5 Acclerates Web Content and Optimizes the WAN

  F5 is converging its application and WAN optimization solutions into a new unified offering, known as the BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager ...

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