This will definitely help with the adoption of Android by the enterprise, similar to when iOS rolled out secure profiles, remote wipe, and other enterprise security requirements. Device fragmentation will continue to be an issue but according to a few reports that is slowly improving.
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Great data in this report from Business Insider.
Some great stats in here:
- 80% of smartphones globally run Android.
- 60% of tablets globally run Android.
- 60% of all new computing devices run Android.
- Android is now as popular with global developers as iOS.
- Android device fragmentation is improving: 61% of users are on Jelly Bean.
- iOS is very strong in the U.S., but weaker globally.
- “Mobile-first” is now “Mobile-also”; phablets and tablets are growing fast.
- Wearables are “new and next” but still in the early stages of adoption.
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LinkedIn and Delta create partnership to match up mentors and mentees on planes en route to industry events.
Traveling + networking at the same time? Add scotch and I’m in.
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NYC invaded Austin, TX at SXSW Interactive and at the NY Tech Meetup event on Saturday, March 8th, where our home-grown startups demoed their products for the global tech community to see. As a member of the NYC tech community myself, I recognized quite a few of the prominent faces in the room that made it a great event for those who wanted an authentic taste of the NYC tech scene. Present were the leading men of Fueled, Social Media Week and Startup Threads, in addition to representatives from NYCEDC and, of course, David S. Rose, Founder and Chairman Emeritus…
Long live Mongo!
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We’ve heard that Google Voice is getting dragged to the trash can and most of its functionality will be incorporated into the G+ Hangouts apps on both Android and iOS. This has already happened to …
I’m really, really not enjoying the Hangouts app on my Android device. Since it’s a Nexus 5 I have no choice but to use it for SMS; it’s slow, sometimes crashes, and makes me miss iMessage (one of the few iOS things I really miss, a lot).
It is good, however, to see the convergence Google is doing (as a consumer). I can’t wait to see how big of a lid the big carriers are going to flip when Google allows you to drop your normal carrier and map your number to Hangouts.
Google plans to kill Google Voice in coming months, integrate features into Hangouts
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Fleep is adding Android, Mac and Windows to the list of supported platforms for its team-messaging app.
We’re trying out Slack right now instead of Skype. Considering this one too.
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The week in cloud: Oracle and Microsoft put the finishing touches on a surprise alliance announced in June. What brought these two rivals together? A common adversary.
Interesting (powerful) move by MS and Oracle in their fight against AWS.
Microsoft and Oracle solidify cloud coexistence as Amazon’s cloud turns 8
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Event ticketing startup Eventbrite has raised a new round of funding at around $50 million, Fortune’s Dan Primack reports, which values the company at over $1..
Eventbrite valued at $1 billion. Wow.
Eventbrite Raises Around $50M At A Valuation North Of $1B, Fortune Reports | TechCrunch
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These companies have everyone — Silicon Valley and Wall Street alike — excited for their initial public offerings.
Gotta love enterprise software.
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San Francisco-based MuleSoft announced today that it has raised a $50 million round that was led by existing investors New Enterprise Associates and Lightspeed Venture Partners as well as new inves…
More money headed towards the enterprise space. Lots of focus lately on integration (SkyGiraffe, Zappier, etc.) as companies see the need to bring order to the chaos which is their (typically) complex IT environments (cloud or on-prem).
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