Salesforce.com Acquires DimDim
Image via CrunchBase Salesforce.com (see previous CloudAve coverage) today announced that it is acquiring DimDim, a low priced Webex competitor, for approximately 31 Million in cash. DimDim was founded in 2007 with its development office in Hyderabad, India. They offered real time collaboration service with video, presentation, whiteboard, etc.. I have been using/following DimDim ever [...]
Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”
This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. I wanted to look at what [...]
Yuuguu Takes on the Corporate Market
Last week Yuuguu (previous coverage here) lifted the wraps on its corporate edition, a tool that brings together web conferencing, a business-class instant messenger and presence via a single, customizable and secure collaboration platform. Yuuguu is tailoring their offering to corporate users by giving them some added features, namely: the ability to embed web conferencing into [...]
Why Is It So Hard to Innovate in Online Education?
With the number of totally cool tools that Schools can use, why are we still waiting for online education to move past blackboard and other systems that are essentially static, unfriendly to social connections, and in general, just unfriendly. The online educational experience can be cold, disjointed and sterile, but it does not have to [...]
Living In The Clouds: Team Apart (50 Beta Invites)
In this edition of Living In The Cloud Series, I am going to discuss online collaboration software, Team Apart. Touted by some bloggers as Webex killer (no, it is not webex killer at this point), this recently launched app has the potential to reshape the collaboration landscape. Another such startup, DimDim, with its extensive set [...]
How Software Can Be Resilient to Recession
Are we heading into Recession? The “Big R” talk of early this year quickly subsided, economic growth returned, the markets appeared to vindicate the optimists. US Presidential Candidate John McCain repeatedly said the economy was fundamentally strong… until just days ago, when he quickly switched to declaring a crisis. The Wall Street Journal says we’re [...]
