ON THE SAME SIDE The idea of offering to extend your lease, in the previous item, underscores a point that is often overlooked during renegotiations, Dee Gill writes in Inc.
But they may soon extend their offerings to compete with the likes of Vonage, Skype, 8X8 and a host of other new firms that concentrate on providing VOIP services.
On Tuesday, the company is announcing that it has raised $3.1 million in a Series A round of venture financing, led by Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital, to extend its offerings.
The funding will enable Socialbakers, which was founded in 2009 and says it is already profitable, to extend its offerings for social media monitoring.
After the success CloudShare has seen with its enterprise customers, it makes sense for the startup to extend its offerings to SMBs and individuals.
It will extend offerings farther by making available a free trial of social networking services LotusLive Engage and LotusLive Connections in Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Spanish.
"Smiths drilling technologies, other products and expertise complement our own, while the geographical footprint of Schlumberger means we can extend our joint offerings worldwide," said Schlumberger CEO Andrew Gould.
It brings total funding to $102 million since being founded in 2011, while the new capital will be used to develop new products and to extend its service offerings.
Earlier this year, Intel acquired Mashery and Layer 7 was bought by CA. Apigee CEO Chet Kapoor said the funding will help it to extend its mobile offerings.
Symantec says the acquisition will extend its governance offerings to the cloud, providing customers with the choice between on-premise, cloud or hybrid delivery of Symantec archiving.
Lidl has sold basic clothing in the past (underwear and childrenwear), but this is the first time it will extend its offering to womenswear.
