Salesforce.com backs cloud solutions company Appirio world domination plans

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Solution provider Appirio cloud this morning announced that it will expand at the international level to better serve its customers in the markets of Europe and Asia.

The expansion, which the company says, will be implemented through a combination of organic and inorganic growth, funded by the strategic investment from two existing investors: VC firm GGV capital and partners of Salesforce.com.

Appirio works with organizations, such as Facebook, NYU, Thomson Reuters and Home Depot to integrate and extend cloud applications and platforms like Google, Salesforce.com and workday. This month, Appirio celebrates its 5 year anniversary, and the company claims to have over 1 million people in the cloud since its inception.

The first International Office was opened in Tokyo, Japan, at the end of the 2008 year.

Earlier this year announced the acquisition of Appirio Infowelders, full-service Salesforce.com implementation consultancy firm (VMG).

One of the company's high-profile supporters, Sequoia Capital, apparently were not involved in the latest funding round of Appirio, which is not disclosed in the company.

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Online video platform company Brightcove files for IPO of $ 50 million

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Online video platform company Brightcove announced this morning that it has filed a registration statement S-1 form with the SEC in connection with the proposed IPO of its ordinary shares. The company expects to raise up to $ 50 million through the sacrifice.

Brightcove offers cloud-based solutions for publishing and distributing video and other digital media.

Brightcove in income grew from USD 24.5 million for the financial year ended December 31, 2008 to 43.7 million in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, shows the filing.

Revenue came to 28.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2011 year.

The company was not profitable, they reported a net loss in the first half of this year to 9.7 million dollars and Brightcove said that he did not expect to be in the black until the end of 2012.

Company filing said that she had about 3300 customers in more than 50 countries, June 30, 2011, including The New York Times Company Oracle, AOL, Philips Electronics, Macy 's, Bank of America, United States Army and Honda. Currently accounted for approximately 300 employees.

The company has also shown that he signed a new lease for more than 80000 square feet of office space in Boston, Massachusetts. The company says that it expects the move to new Office April 1, 2012 year.

In May 2011, Brightcove announced the release of "the Cloud App, software applications and management platform designed to help users to publish and distribute video across software applications across multiple devices connected to the Internet. The company said it expected its first commercial sale in the second half of 2011.

Brightcove has a list on the NASDAQ Global market under the ticker "BCOV".

Whether this is the right time to file for an IPO, for discussion, of course. Global economic turmoil a bunch of recent IPO candidates simply decided to delay their proposals.

Brightcove offering is made through Morgan Stanley, Stifel Nicolaus, RBC Capital Markets, Pacific Crest securities and Raymond James.

List of company investors include Accel Partners, General Catalyst partners, Allen & Company, Mack and Hearst enterprises, among others.

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Time Warner Cable buys cable company communications for $ 3 billion

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Rumors swirled news yesterday, but time Warner Cable just confirmed that it has acquired West cable operator Insight for $ 3 billion in cash. Insight serves more than 750 000 customers in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, according to a press release.

Insight offers bundled video, high-speed Internet and voice telephony, residential and business customers and operates the cn | 2, news and information network that provides a subset of their clients.

Founded more than 25 years ago, the Carlyle Group and Insight Management has taken private in December 2005, the company, other investors, such as the MidOcean Partners acquired Crestview and significant share of the company in April 2010.

This operation may be getting FCC approval on franchise and other customary closing conditions.

Time Warner Cable is the second largest cable company in the United States, after Comcast and boasts some 12 million cable customers.

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30 years of publishing software Maker, Quark has acquired a private equity company

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Private Quark Publishing, which develops software for professional designers and businesses and is best known for his QuarkXPress (QXP) layout the layout editor, gained Platinum Equity, private equity firm that specializes in mergers and acquisitions.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Brian wall, partner at Platinum Equity, which was headed by engaging in procurement, said that the PE firm has kick-started the process focuses on the transition to a new property of Quark.

Based in Denver, Colorado, Quark provides a set of software applications that allow you to create, manage, publish and deliver content in various media, including print, email, web, social media, as well as e-readers, tablets and mobile devices. His main rival to Adobe.

The company was founded in 1981 under the name "Quark engineering". Quark previously owned by the family Ebrahimi, which acquired founder Tim Gill in 2000.

Platinum Equity was founded in 1995 by the billionaire (and the owner of the Detroit Pistons) Tom Gores and since completed more than 115 acquisitions. The Los Angeles company owns companies in both the San Diego Union-Tribune, United States Robotics, Vanguard networks, canvas and MegaPath.

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E-commerce platform for retailers Plimus, acquired the company PE for $ 115 million.

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Plimus company offering SaaS to power e-commerce for retailers, has acquired a private company great Hill partners for $ 115 million. Plimus previously raised $ 18 million from Susquehanna growth equity.

Plimus builds and manages online businesses for thousands of software publishers, Web hosting companies and online stores. Business, you can choose the Plimus hosted applications, which covers the entire lifecycle of e-Commerce, or you can deploy ' Plimus buy Anyware "API that allows retailers to integrate technology with existing solutions.

Using Plimus software, retailers can deliver customer newsletters, coupons and promotions, real time reporting, live chat and much more. Plimus has a user base of more than 6500 small and medium-sized enterprises, and enterprises around the world.

Plimus competitor BigCommerce has just raised $ 15 million in new funding sources.

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Dashwire HTC buys mobile Web services company for up to $ 18.5 million

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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC today announced that it agreed to acquire through its HTC America holding, 100% of the company Dashwire Seattle-based mobile web services for maximum purchase price of $ 18.5 million to increase their mobile cloud services gifts HTCSense.com.

Dashwire offers a wide range of consumer, social and device management software services for mobile operators, device makers and retailers. The company's platform is available for Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian and BlackBerry.

On its Web site the Dashwire said he relies on investors ' built wireless industry and technology in cellular McCaw, Western wireless, Voicestream, Nextel, China Unicom and Microsoft.

Another investor is the best buy capital, retail giant investment arm.

At the end of last year, Dashwire raised $ 1 million in debt financing.

The company was founded by CEO Ford Davidson, former product manager in the mobile group at Microsoft. Dashwire, Technical Director, James Prudente, helped build the essential elements of the Amazon web operation in the early days and helped to establish the Amazon mobile group.

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Dashwire offers the leading mobile-web connected services platform for mobile operators, device manufacturers and retailers to seamlessly deliver a new generation of real-time consumer and social control.

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