Tonight, Google has unveiled their Google Apps Marketplace - an app store for enterprise apps in the cloud.
The Google Apps Marketplace offers products and services designed for Google users, including installable apps that integrate directly with Google Apps. Installable apps are easy to use because they include single sign-on, Google's universal navigation, and some even include features that integrate with your domain's data.
Using a set of APIs, third-party apps can deeply integrate their products within Google Apps which are already being used by millions of individuals, startups, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies.
Toronto's FreshBooks announced this evening that their online invoicing service has been included in the Google Apps Marketplace.
"We believe that small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy," said Sunir Shah, Chief Handshaker and head of integrations for FreshBooks. "Tools like Google Apps have helped millions of small businesses chase their dreams by giving them an affordable, powerful leg up in a difficult economy. By extending into the Google Apps ecosystem, FreshBooks is proud to be able to give these businesses another vital key to their success: getting paid faster."
FreshBooks makes you look professional when it matters the most: when asking your clients for money. FreshBooks keeps your company's time and expenses organized; provides easy online payment options by Google Checkout™, credit card, or eCheck; and gives your clients detailed account statements. By making it easy for Google Apps customers to create and log into FreshBooks accounts from their Google Apps account, they'll have just one more leg up on the competition by impressing their clients and getting paid faster.
Take a minute to browse through the 3rd party applications that were included with the Google Apps Marketplace - you'll be impressed.
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They might be used to working at the level of the invisible and the intangible, but today they struck a deal that was both very real, very tangible and very ambitious.
Researchers from the University of Waterloo and the Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies signed a deal today to pool resources and collaborate in a race to build a quantum computer - a supercomputer capable of performing advanced calculations at the speed of light.
Traditional computers use a series of 1's and 0's (called bits) in order to perform long, tedious calculations. But a quantum computer harnesses the unique properties of molecular building blocks so that these 1's and 0's can occur at the same time, opening the door for the infinitely large computing speeds.
With both institutions in command of significant resources, talent and quantum computing know-how, this agreement simply concretizes a de facto relationship that has been enjoyed by the two for years. Researchers have regularly been sharing discoveries, ideas and experimental data with one other even before this agreement was finalized on paper.
Back in January, at the Consumer Electronics Show, Chevrolet announced a joint venture program with OnStar which unveiled the auto industry’s first working smartphone application that will allow Chevrolet Volt owners 24/7 connection and control of vehicle functions and OnStar features remotely. The app allows drivers to communicate with their Volt from the following smartphones: Droid by Motorola, Apple iPhone and Blackberry Storm.
The application uses a real-time data connection to perform tasks from setting the charge time to unlocking the doors.
Here's what the application can do:
Walt Dorfstatter is the President of OnStar:
The Chevrolet Volt ushers in a new era of automotive technology and calls for a new level of connectivity and control. Nearly 6 million vehicles on the road today use OnStar to stay connected, and our new smartphone app will make that even easier for Volt drivers.
For more information please visit http://media.gm.com/volt
On March 23rd the Vancouver Enterprise Forum is hosting Winning the Cleantech Game – Real Growth Stories hosted by Yaletown Venture Partners' Kirk Washington.
Cleantech is one of the fastest growing areas of technology and currently the attracting much of the new investment and media attention. British Columbia is recognized as one of the world leaders in developing new and potential game changing technologies.
This month we have assembled a panel of Cleantech CEO’s who have companies are winning the game. The have customers, revenues and are growing.
Panelist for the event include:
Register online if you're interested in attending.
If you have a tech startup that you'd like to tell the VEF audience about, be sure to apply for their pre-event Lightning Pitches. There are five, strictly controlled, 100 second time slots at the beginning of the VEF presentations and they're a great opportunity to get the word out.
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Today Business Week's Michael Arndt added Vancouver's Indochino to their America's Most Promising Startups list - an ongoing series profiling new companies from across the country that embody the creativity and resilience common among today's entrepreneurs.
In a profile titled This Business Suits the Internet, Arndt tells the story of how two college pals - Kyle Vucko and Heikal Gani - turned their business idea into a dot-com success with customers in 60 countries and financial backing that includes former Yahoo! President Jeffrey Mallett.
Kyle Vucko and Heikal Gani came up with the idea of custom-tailoring men's suits via the Internet in 2006, when both were students at the University of Victoria in Canada. (Vucko, now 24, was studying commerce, while Gani, 27, was majoring in political science and psychology.) Gani needed to buy his first suit for a conference. He wanted something from Hugo Boss but ended up with a cheaper pair of pants and jacket that needed $100 worth of tailoring to fit well.
Through a university mentoring program, Vucko met Hannes Blum, CEO of Internet book retailer AbeBooks, who fronted them $40,000. The duo dropped out of school and went to Shanghai to line up a network of tailors who could assemble suits, one at a time, from measurements supplied by each customer. They launched their Web site in September 2007 and booked their first order a few days later. Since then, Vucko and Gani have raised $650,000 more from other investors, including $175,000 from Mallett, who is now IndoChino's chairman.
Congrats to Vucko and Gani on the main stream media mention. We won't be mentioning that they're based in Vancouver, British Columbia not Vancouver, Washington.
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