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Ignition News
Another day, another big investment for Ignition in a cloud startup
January 19, 2012
Airbiquity and Allstate Roadside Services to Integrate Connected Vehicle Services for Automotive Customers
January 9, 2012
Ignition’s John Connors joins board of AppSense
January 9, 2012
Hipmunk launches mobile app for booking hotels
January 9, 2012
Keas Scores $6.5 Million Series B Financing From Atlas Venture, Ignition Partners
January 6, 2012
Start-Ups Look to Social Gaming to Make Health Care Less of a Pain
January 3, 2012
Keas Scores $6.5 Million Series B Financing From Atlas Venture, Ignition Partners
December 21, 2011
Xeround Gets $9M for New Cloud Mission, at New HQ
December 15, 2011
Ignition backs San Francisco cloud application service Iron.io
December 8, 2011
Cloudera upgrades Hadoop management tools, offers free version for startups
December 8, 2011
MasterCard Makes Its First Mobile Payments Investment in mFoundry
December 1, 2011
Fotopedia Brings Brand Advertising To The iPad In Magazine Form (First Stop: Japan)
November 16, 2011
Servicemesh nets $15 million for enterprise software push
November 16, 2011
Redfin picks DocuSign for electronic signatures
November 15, 2011
Ignition Partners leads $40 million round for Cloudera
November 13, 2011
Ignition invests in Calif. gaming startup headed by teen
November 11, 2011
Ignition scares up another deal in San Fran, backs 19-year-old’s MinoMonsters
November 11, 2011
Ignition leads $5.5M round in Parse; John Connors joins board
November 10, 2011
Some supermarkets are bagging use of self-checkout
November 9, 2011
Smartphone app works as a super-fast self-checkout
November 9, 2011
BlueStacks App Player Wins CES Innovations Honor
November 9, 2011
Ignition's Cameron Myhrvold Joins the Lineup for Mobile Maddness NW Dec 6
October 26, 2011
Travel search service Hipmunk adds Google Calendar integration
October 25, 2011
BlueStacks raises cash to run Android apps on Windows PCs
October 20, 2011
BlueStacks runs Google Android apps on Windows
October 12, 2011
Grocers Test Smartphones
October 11, 2011
Travel app Trover makes its Android debut
October 11, 2011
Done Deal: Nuance Buys Swype for $100M
October 7, 2011
Tier 3 to Bring Enterprise-Grade Virtual Private Cloud to New Yokr with New Data Center
October 5, 2011
Tier 3 Adds Predictive Autoscaler, Virtualized Load Balancer to Enterprise-Class Hybrid Cloud
October 4, 2011
Travel search Hipmunk launches new Android app
September 29, 2011
Social Media monitoring firm Visible raises $4 million
September 22, 2011
Looking to take on Quora, Avvo rebrands as a Q&A site
September 21, 2011
Fotopedia Creates A Flipboard Photo Magazine
September 20, 2011
Seven Questions for Splunk CEO Godfrey Sullivan
September 19, 2011
Bezos, Schmidt, Ignition and other toss support behind API marketplace Mashape
September 7, 2011
Tier 3 Lanches Client Backup App for Enterprise Cloud
August 29, 2011
Q&A: Ignition's Frank Artale is one very busy VC
August 26, 2011
Cloud Foundry adds PHP, Python; AppFog now a user
August 25, 2011
Tier 3 PaaS Automates Multiple Server Cloud Deployments
August 24, 2011
Happy Birthday, Hipmunk: 1 million monthly searches served and still growing
August 18, 2011
Ignition Leads $8M Round for AppFog
August 11, 2011
Ignition Continues Blistering Pace, Leads $14M Round for Couchbase
August 10, 2011
Tier 3 Accelerates Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Adoption, Opens Data Centers with Equinix
August 9, 2011
Ignition Leads $10M Round in New York's Apprenda
August 9, 2011
August 5, 2011
Topsy Searches Twitter Better Than Twitter
August 4, 2011
Stop & Shop Pilots Mobile Check-Out Application to Enhance In-Store Shopping Capabilities
August 2, 2011
Up and Away! Trover Travel App Now In Wide Release
July 28, 2011
Tier 3 Enterprise Cloud Platform Attains VMware Vcloud Powered Validation
July 26, 2011
Motif Raises $20M to Allow Investors to Invest in Ideas
July 26, 2011
Startup Q&A: Tier 3's Adam Wray on a billion-dollar future
July 22, 2011
Startup Q&A: Mark Upson of Scout Analytics on revenue growth
July 22, 2011
With A Half Billion Pages Signed, DocuSign Launches Free Edition
July 19, 2011
3 Big Ideas from Frank Artale
July 19, 2011
Swype Grabs More Funding for its Virtual Keyboard Push
July 12, 2011
Latest Funding Establishes StorSimple as the Safe Bet in Enterprise Cloud Storage
June 23, 2011
Bromium Gets $9.2M To Make The Cloud More Secure
June 22, 2011
Glympse Raises $7.5 Million To Help You Share Your Location, A Few Hours At A Time
June 22, 2011
Ignition backs ScaleXtreme
June 22, 2011
Airbiquity Congratulates Nissan Motors Japan on Nissan Leaf Mobile Application Award
June 8, 2011
Splunk wants to webify big data
June 8, 2011
For Hipmunk, it's all about the users– and the UI
June 8, 2011
How To Lose Weight By Competing With Your Co-Workers
June 7, 2011
Start-Up BlueStacks Raises Cash to Bring Android Apps to Windows PCs
May 25, 2011
Check out the future of shopping
May 24, 2011
Trover: The Best Location-Based Discovery App You’re Not Using (Yet)
May 20, 2011
Splunk sees growth as customers go above and beyond
May 20, 2011
Visible Technologies Reports Soaring Sales, Surge In Social Media Data
April 11, 2011
Fast-growing Swype scores cash from Ignition, hints at Apple iOS integration
April 7, 2011
Swype Grabs More Funding, Looks to Trace Path Into New Areas
April 7, 2011
DailyBooth Wants Your Next Status Update to Be a Photo, Gets Investment to Help
March 9, 2011
DocuSign Named Commercial Product/Service of the Year at WTIA Industry Achievement Awards
March 2, 2011
Rob Glaser's SocialEyes: Facebook-connected videophone
February 28, 2011
Hipmunk Takes Simple Flight Search And Makes It Even Easier On The iPhone
February 28, 2011
Travel Search Gets Convenient With Hipmunk
February 16, 2011
Splunk: Extracting Business Ideas from IT Logs
February 11, 2011
'Laptop is dead,' proclaims MDM company: Helps IT push software images to tablet platform instead
February 9, 2011
Frank Artale Joins Ignition Ventures as Managing Director
February 7, 2011
Former Microsoft tech fellow Brad Lovering to open R&D office for Splunk
February 7, 2011
Hipmunk’s Official Round: $4.2 Million Led By Ignition And A Group Of Online Travel Experts
February 3, 2011
AVST Completes Exclusive Long-Term Agreement with VMI for UC Cloud Technology
February 2, 2011
Ignition leads investment in online sports site Korrio
January 28, 2011
Splunk News: Macy's Ramps Up Online Operations
January 27, 2011
BlueKai Buys TrackSimple
January 27, 2011
New SEVEN Solution Optimizes Mobile Apps Traffic and Cuts Device Data Consumption by 70%
January 26, 2011
Airbiquity to Provide Connected Vehicle Services for Ford Electric Vehicles
January 7, 2011
Cloudmark Nominated for Prestigious Telecom Industry Award
January 6, 2011
Skytap Secures $10 Million to Accelerate Business Growth for Cloud Automation
January 3, 2011
Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212 Million In Cash
December 30, 2010
E-Signature Company DocuSign Lands $27 Million, Expands Management Team
December 29, 2010
GlobalScholar Acquired By Scantron
December 16, 2010
SeaMobile Connecting the Oceans
December 2, 2010
Airbiquity and Bosch Announce Long-Term Agreement
November 12, 2010
Avvo Launches Free Doctor Ratings Directory...Contains Profiles for Over 800,000 U.S. Doctors
November 1, 2010
Visible Technologies Unveils Vision for Social Intelligence
October 29, 2010
Why the best entrepreneurs are both cheerleaders and scientists
October 27, 2010
Business Move Toward Accepting Tablets, But Hurdles Remain
October 26, 2010
ChinaCache Jumps 95% for Biggest U.S. IPO Rally in Three Years
October 4, 2010
ChinaCache skyrockets on Wall Street
October 4, 2010
StorSimple to Accelerate Expansion Plans in High-Growth Cloud Storage Market
September 15, 2010
DataSphere, Backed by OVP and Ignition, Raises $10M to Tap into Hyperlocal Online Ad Market
September 9, 2010
Zenprise Launches Management Offering for iPads and iPhones
August 27, 2010
Fotopedia Heritage Shows the Web Isn't Dead
August 27, 2010
Likewise to preview CIFS Appliance edition at VMWorld (booth #1606): August 30 - September 2, 1010
August 26, 2010
Airband, Sparkplug merge to create largest US fixed-wireless company
August 24, 2010
Zenprise extends security controls to employee-owned iPhones, other devices
August 18, 2010
Fotopedia Introduces The Endless Photo Book On The iPad (Video Demo)
August 10, 2010
Visible Technologies Featured: How savvy firms monitor customers' online chatter
July 14, 2010
Keas Makes Online Care Plans Pay
June 30, 2010
Docusign Names Mike Dinsdale CFO
May 28, 2010
CDC Chooses Azaleos to Manage New Microsoft Exchange 2010 Email System
May 27, 2010
LocalTV LLC and DataSphere to Launch Community Websites in 11 U.S. States
May 17, 2010
Azaleos Broadens Management Partnership with EMC to Encompass SharePoint 2010
May 13, 2010
New Azaleos Service Does the Dirty Work to Keep SharePoint 2010 Humming
May 11, 2010
Heroku Raises $10M for Its Ruby Platform
May 11, 2010
Shell Selects Airbiquity to Connect Shell FuelSave Partner
May 5, 2010
Bonanzle Raises $1M from Angel Investors, Plus Three VC Firms, to Expand Its Online Marketplace
April 29, 2010
Osterman Research: 44 Percent of Orgs will Migrate to Exchange 2010
April 29, 2010
Hitachi Automotive and Airbiquity Partner to Provide Global Connected Services for Electric Vehicles
April 28, 2010
VM6 Software - Canadian startup connects with cross-border cash
April 14, 2010
Virtualization Infrastructure Software Company VM6 Raises $4 Million
April 14, 2010
IPhone -Zenprise to Support Apple iPad in the Enterprise
April 2, 2010
USA.Net Selects Cloudmark To Extend Messaging Security For More Than One Million Mailboxes
April 2, 2010
Cloudmark Server Edition Wins ‘Security Product Of The Year’ At 2010 Network Computing Awards
April 2, 2010
Likewise Software to be Included in VMware vSphere™ for Privileged User Access Management
April 2, 2010
Bluetie Selects Cloudmark Gateway To Protect 1.6 Million Mailboxes For Best-In-Class Business Email
April 2, 2010
Topsy Surfaces Hottest Real Time Links, Hits Bit.ly And TweetMeme Head On
April 2, 2010
Topsy Search Launches: ReTweets Are The New Currency Of The Web
April 2, 2010
Avvo Raises $10M from New Investor, Looks to Expand Online Legal Services
March 22, 2010
How Semantic and Social Search Are Evolving: Lessons From the Evri-Twine Merger
March 16, 2010
Winner! Talyst for AutoCool! 2010 WTIA Industry Achievement Award Winner for Commercial Product or Service
March 5, 2010
$23 Million Round for San Francisco-based Cloudmark
March 5, 2010
Shell Selects Airbiquity to Connect FuelSave Partner
February 23, 2010
A Good Start? WA Companies Raised $57M in January, Up from $22M in Previous Month
February 11, 2010
Topsy Becomes An Even More Powerful Alternative To Twitter’s Offical Search Engine
February 10, 2010
Pfizer and Keas Partner to Help Consumers Take a More Active Role in Their Health and Wellness
February 10, 2010
Azaleos CEO Phil Van Etten: Mutiny In IT
February 3, 2010
Mpire Partners With comScore to Enhance AdXpose's Demographic Campaign Performance
February 3, 2010
Datasphere News - Fisher Invests $1.5 Million in Hyperlocal Partner
February 3, 2010
SEOmoz Hands Off Consulting Biz to U.K. Firm, Doubles Down on Software and Tools
February 2, 2010
DocuSign gets a new CEO as it aims to dominate electronic signatures
January 27, 2010
5 Recent Big Moves In Hyper-Local News
January 19, 2010
Three Questions on Hyperlocal Advertising with Satbir Khanuja, CEO of DataSphere
January 19, 2010
Marketing in the Age of Google: Vanessa Fox Interview
January 19, 2010
Visible Technologies Raises A Whopping $22 Million For Social Media Monitoring Software
January 13, 2010
Venture Capitalists' Best Tech Predictions for 2010
January 7, 2010
DocuSign Raises $2 Million For E-Signature Software
November 18, 2009
Keas Launches Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health
October 6, 2009
Xeround Wins Billing & OSS World Excellence Award for Best OSS Transformation
April 17, 2009
Twisted Pair Solutions and Fpweb.net Partner to Deliver Interoperability as a Service (IaaS)
April 14, 2009
Is It Time for a Postal Service 2.0?
February 11, 2009
The Recession. Isn't It Romantic?
February 11, 2009
Cleantech Firm Fat Spaniel Calls for Action
February 2, 2009
Fidelity Introduces E-Signature Capability with Docusign Product
August 11, 2008
Sparkplug CEO Dishes on Broadband Expansion, Differentiation
June 11, 2008
Plugging Into Your System's Vital Signs
May 1, 2008
Citrix Will Enhance Relationship With and Provide Alternative to Microsoft
August 16, 2007
XenSource Acquired by Citrix
August 16, 2007
First Data Corp Completes Acquisition of Intelligent Results
April 16, 2007
Linksys and Sotto Wireless Team to Streamline Telecommunications and Networking for Small Businesses
March 16, 2007
Mpire Online Shopping Mashup for $144 Billion eCommerce Opportunity
March 13, 2007
HyperQuality Secures $10 Million in Second-Round Venture Financing
January 26, 2007
Sparkplug Inc. Secures $22.5 Million Funding Round to Drive Expansion of Wireless Broadband Networks
January 17, 2007
BioPassword – Telltale Fingertips
December 18, 2006
Mpire Adds Amazon.com, Community Features, and Enhanced Search Engine
August 20, 2006
Fangtek Concludes Financing Round of $12MM
June 8, 2006
Wireless Services Buying Mobile Media North America
May 19, 2006
Noble Systems and Intelligent Results Form Strategic Partnership
May 16, 2006
Ignition Press Releases
Airbiquity Named Winner of Two International Telematics Update Awards
June 9, 2011
GlobalScholar’s Kal Raman, Fresh Off $160M Deal, Seeks to Build an Oracle for K-12 Schools
December 20, 2010
Zenprise MobileManager Protects Business-Critical Applications in Mobile Environment
December 7, 2010
Zenprise Tries to Bring Serenity to Mobile Security Management
December 7, 2010
Sparkplug Names Former Hawaiian Telecom Leader New CEO
August 18, 2008
Ice.Com Secures Growth Equity Investment from Polaris Venture Partners and Ignition Partners
January 25, 2008
Ignition Partners Names Three New Partners at Investment Group
November 19, 2007
Ignition Partners Announces formation of Ignition Ventures IV Fund
October 1, 2007
Ignition Partners Announces Affiliate Fund Focused on Later, Growth Stage Investments
October 1, 2007
Full Capture Secures $7 million in Series B Funding
September 25, 2006
Ignition Partners adds $80MM to Most Recent Fund
June 1, 2006
SeaMobile Acquires Maritime Telecommunications Network
May 11, 2006
Online Jewelry Retailer Ice.com Acquires Diamond.com Business from Odimo, Inc.
May 11, 2006