Nearshore Journal

WorkFlex Solutions LLC, a Cincinnati-based Web-based developer of software for managing call center staffing, has raised $1.5 million in VC funding led by CincyTech.
PRESS RELEASE
WorkFlex Solutions LLC, a Cincinnati-based startup company that has created Web-based software for managing call center staffing, has closed a $1.5 million venture capital investment round led by CincyTech with an [...]

By JULIA ANGWIN and TOM MCGINTY
The largest U.S. websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time—a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.
The tracking files represent the leading edge of a lightly regulated, emerging industry of data-gatherers [...]

Fred Wilson, a New York City partner in the venture capital firm Union Square Ventures, struck gold in the late 1990s, when he helped in the multibillion-dollar sale of Geocities to Yahoo. Since then, Mr. Wilson’s firm has invested in a number of big-name Web brands including MeetUp, Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga, Outside.in and Etsy. Below [...]

Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Download the transcript, or read a full copy. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints.
Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint’s ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight.
The latest BriefingsDirect Analyst [...]

Lots of talk this week about Apple’s 4G iPhone, after Gizmodo found a prototype left behind at a local watering hole. The device is believed to use an internally-designed application processor, just like Apple used with its recently-released iPad. Both chips were borne of Apple’s $278 million acquisition of P.A. Semi in 2008.
Many of P.A. [...]

Two developments last week really solidified for me the collision course between social media concepts and traditional enterprise IT. This is by no means a train wreck, but rather a productive, value-add combination that is sure to make IT departments more responsive to the needs of the businesses and the [...]

By Mark Hachman
Video platform and services company Episodic has been acquired by Google, Episodic confirmed on Friday.
“We are thrilled to announce that Episodic has been acquired by Google,” Noam Lovinsky and Matias Cudich, the co-founders of Episodic, wrote in a blog post on Friday. “The entire Episodic team is extremely excited about this new [...]