Aaron Levie, Box CEO: We Should Have Bought Yammer | Waze navigates users to exclusive discounts on gas | Zendesk Adds UK Government To Its List Of European Clients | Moped strips down and rebuilds Twitter direct messages | Uber Hires European Kees Koolen As COO, To Help It Scale Globally

Aaron Levie, Box CEO: We Should Have Bought Yammer

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It was clearly meant as a joke. Yammer is, according to many reports, just moments away from a big acquisition by Microsoft, so on stage at LeWeb in London today my colleague Mike Butcher asked Aaron Levie, the outspoken CEO of cloud storage player Box, if he had been interested in the enterprise social networking service. “Yeah, we should have bought Yammer, but they didn’t come knocking.”
But like all good jokes, it’s built on some kind of truth. Levie used the comment as a springboard to talk about the M&A potential for Box and the enterprise space in general, noting that deals like Vitrue and Taleo at Oracle, and Buddy Media at Salesforce, have contributed to[...]
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Waze navigates users to exclusive discounts on gas

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Waze, the crowdsourced traffic app, isn’t just trying to save people some time. It’s now in the business of saving people money too. The company is unveiling a discount fuel service that lets users receive five to 10 cents off each gallon they buy from more than 200,000 gas stations across the country. It’s part of a new live gas prices functionality that allows users to update each other on the latest gas prices at various stations they spot while on the road.
The new real-time gas prices features adds more utility to the Waze app, which is nice, but there are other apps that surface this information. Waze’s appeal is that it has crowd-sourced data, so it might be mo[...]
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Zendesk Adds UK Government To Its List Of European Clients

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Plenty of news coming out of Le Web London this morning. Aside from Box announcing a new London office to scale it’s 15% annual growth in Europe, today we also have news that cloud-based CRM platform Zendesk has landed a UK Government contract for its recently launched new GOV.UK portal for government services.The usual Zendesk ticketing system will be used to alert the GOV.UK team to inbound customer enquiries allowing them to prioritise queries, and this also incorporates social media customer service. Zendesk has been ramping up the social side with Facebook integration late last year and a Twilio-powered VoIP system[...]
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Moped strips down and rebuilds Twitter direct messages

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Less is more, as one of the great design principles dictates. It’s a lesson that Twitter picked up when it launched its (initially) simple service, and now it seems to be guiding Moped, a startup that’s effectively taking one of Twitter’s secondary features, stripping it down and building it into a new product.
Direct messaging is the feature, and Moped reckons it can do it better. And it’s not just self-confidence either ? as well as launching with web and iPhone apps on Wednesday, Moped has also revealed a $1 million seed round with Earlybird, Betaworks, Lerer Ventures and SV Angel taking part.
“Twitter’s DM is just a ‘feature’ of Twitter,[...]
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Uber Hires European Kees Koolen As COO, To Help It Scale Globally

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Car service dispatch company Uber has hired a European Chief Operating Officer, making the announcement today at LeWeb London. �Kees Koolen, who scaled booking.com to $9 billion in revenue during his tenure, will now be “the number two” in the company, next to CEO Travis Kalanick. �Koolen, who is from Amsterdam, will be based half of the time out of Uber HQ in San Francisco and half the time will be traversing the globe spearheading the startup’s international expansion.
The company currently has offices in London and Paris. Will Amsterdam be next for the lifestyle-focused personal transportation startup?
“Why would you hire a European to be a COO?” asked profes[...]
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