Sometimes Box Size Does Matter
(ummm – any double entendre taken from that title was unintentional, sort of!) Box.net, the cloud content management vendor, is today upping the ante in the war of storage space. They’re moving all...
View ArticleBox Raises $81M and Raises the Stakes at the Same Time
Big news last week was the confirmation of a massive new funding round for perennial crowd favorite box.net. For those that didn’t see the news, Box snagged $81M from existing and new investors...
View ArticleOn Privacy, US Legislation and Cloud Vendors
While in the US a week or two ago I spent some time talking with vendors about the security of Cloud data, in particular the impact of the DCMA and Patriot Act on non US customers of vendors. As part...
View ArticleHuddle Picks Up Massive Series C Round
Exciting news this morning from Cloud content management and collaboration company Huddle. The UK founded but now US/UK headquartered company is this morning announcing a Series C funding round to the...
View ArticleEx Jive CMO Comes Back with Awesome Sales Tool–Crushpath
Three or years ago I went out on a limb criticizing the new startup of ex Jive CMO Sam Lawrence – Blackbox Republic was a site that was going to reinvent online relationships for “sex positive”...
View ArticleBox Counters Salesforce Smackdown
At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff leaked his own company’s news of a new content collaboration and sharing service dubbed ChatterBox. I’ve actually known about the product...
View ArticleBoxWorks 2012–Predictions and Prognostications
Next week sees me in San Francisco for the annual Box user conference (disclosure – Box is covering my T&E account), it’s an interesting time for the company, only a couple of weeks ago Salesforce...
View ArticleBox Counters the Threat of ChatterBox–The Switzerland of Content Collaboration
When Salesforce announced their ChatterBox content collaboration solutions a couple of weeks ago, the one vendor most impacted by the news was Box – partly because they’d previously been an important...
View ArticleReflections on BoxWorks
Having had a little while to reflect on a month that saw me attend both DreamForce and BoxWorks, I wanted to get down some thoughts on what is happening with Box, one of Silicon Valley’s current...
View ArticleCelebrity Engineers–Software’s Equivalent of Arts Patronage
Back in the days gone by, if you were part of the landed gentry, lording over your landholdings and the common folk who lived on said land, you’d look to becoming a patron of the arts as a way to...
View ArticlePlease Don’t Market By Eviscerating Your Competitors–It’s Unseemly
Last November I covered the launch of Filelocker – a company looking to build a cloud backup and collaboration service that meets the needs of enterprise IT. In their launch blurb they came out with...
View ArticleCrushpath Picks up $6M and Launches Tailored Pitch Sites
I’ve written before about Crushpath, the startup founded by ex-Jive marketing wunderkind Sam Lawrence. As I said when I first covered there slightly stealthy launch, the premise of Crushpath is that...
View ArticleRumors Surface That HP Is Acquiring Box
Note – Despite contacting both HP and Box, neither company would comment on acquisition rumors. Last night I wrote about the rumor circulating on anonymous application Secret that cloud file sharing...
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