Weekly Money Trail- 08/01/2008
by urbantech
Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire software company Pure Networks for $120 million in cash as the networking giant expands its consumer product portfolio.
This is Cisco’s first acquisition of a venture-backed company since it announced in November that it would acquire Securent, a provider of policy management software, for $100 million in cash. Cisco, which [...]
The Weekly Money Trail- July 13, 2008
by urbantech
Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To Life
A few years ago, investors poured more than $18 million into Alerts.com, a developer of software that alerted users when content changed on high-traffic Web sites.
http://www.alerts.com
Weekly Money Trail 7-4-2008
by urbantech
Microsoft throws it’s weight behind Semantic light weight, POWERSET.COM
Powerset has been closely watched as a potential challenger to Google because of its search engine’s ability to understand both the meaning of search queries and the language of a Web page in order to match the two together. Google has generally eschewed natural-language search in favor [...]
Microsoft Releases Preview of New of Robotics Platform, and new portal called robochamps
by urbantech
Microsoft released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008, the new version of its robotics programming platform. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 contains improvements in its runtime performance, distributed computational capabilities and tools.
Scheduled for release later this year, the first preview of the product is now available for evaluation and [...]
Google Launches App Engine
by Markus Robinson
Last night at Campfire One, Google announced the preview release launch of the Google App Engine, “a tool enabling developers to run web applications on Google’s infrastructure.” Google’s goal is to “make it easy to get started with a new web app, and then make it easy to scale when that app reaches the point [...]
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