Recent News
01 March 2010
Financial Times
Tim Bradshaw in London and Joseph Menn in San Francisco
Competition between Spotify and MOG is intensifying as the new digital music services race to win support from investors, record labels and listeners.
The transatlantic rivals - aided by two veterans of the online music industry - are both raising new funds to build a service which they hope will lure music fans away from piracy and provide a new r..
26 February 2010
Press Release
MOG, the digital music and music blogging network, today announced that it has closed a round of funding totalling $9.5 million, led by Balderton Capital and Menlo Ventures.MOG is an innovative digital music site that provides a music discovery service through a community of 13 million hard core music fans, across hundreds of blogs in the MOG netwo..
22 February 2010
TechCrunch
Sarah Lacy
What do a trucker, an Israeli entrepreneur, Al Gore and Richard Branson all have in common? Proof that the real goldmines are old, neglected industries.
The name of that proof is GreenRoad. While so many entrepreneurs bang their heads against a Web and social media advertising brick wall, GreenRoad has applied common technology to an industry techn..
19 February 2010
The Irish Times
Intune Networks, the Irish maker of telecoms equipment for high bandwidth transmission, has won a major EU-funded research contract to design a telecoms network for cloud computing. Intune is part of a consortium that includes telecoms operators Telefónica in Spain and PrimeTel in Cyprus. The consortium also includes Italian software company..
16 February 2010
Siliconrepublic.com
Paddy Houlihan’s mobile software company NewBay has secured a major deal with Deutsche Telekom to drive the Germany telecoms giant’s next generation of cloud-computing services.Under the deal, NewBay’s LifeCache Social Networking Gateway (SNG) and LifeCache Media Upload Client have been deployed to power the upload of photos, vide..
25 January 2010
Information Management Online
Jim Ericson
January 25, 2010 -- Open source data integration specialist Talend today released what it calls the first comprehensive enterprise master data management solution on an open source platform supported by a large community of users. Citing "typical" MDM deployment costs of $500 thousand to $1.2 million, Talend executives predict the new platform will..