Engine Yard takes Orchestra to add PHP support to its PAAS

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Engine Yard, provider solutions platform as a service (PAAS) this morning announced that it acquired developer platform for Orchestra, deployment, scaling and managing PHP applications.

Engine Yard, which is based on the investors as benchmark capital, new Enterprise Associates, and Amazon.com, decided not to disclose the financial terms of the acquisition.

San Francisco company is best known for his PAAS for Ruby on Rails applications, but the acquisition will allow the company to add support for PHP applications.

Engine Yard statement said will continue to develop PHP platform and the Orchestra continue to invest in both Ruby on Rails and PHP open source communities and projects. There are no plans to discontinue support or development of any Orchestra's offerings.

The Orchestra is echolibre, an Irish company avid contribution to community PHP and the creators of the open API framework FRAPI, source (among other projects).

The whole team will be joining engine yard Orchestra due to the acquisition.

To date, engine yard was raised $37,5 million in financing. The company competes with other venture-backed startup Heroku, which was acquired by Salesforce for 212 million dollars in cash at the end of last year), among others.

Announcement-August 23, 2011 Orchestra from the Orchestra on Vimeo.

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Erply takes on the square and Intuit with NFC-Enabled Mobile credit card reader for iOS

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Erply, a company that develops retail inventory management software takes on the square, Intuit and VeriFone today with new mobile credit card reader for device iOS. Erply credit card device connects to the iPad or iPhone and will transmit data encrypted credit card customer to point of sale and inventory management suite software payment processing.

With Erply reader retail iPhone charger attached to the port or the iPad and it communicates with the POS software company for transaction processing and accounting for the sale of stocks. Actually, credit card data is encrypted inside the device, ensuring that the transaction is safe and secure.

The advantage for the reader to link with inventory management, offers a complex solution for retail instead of user different software. And it works particularly well in the retail environment, where there are a large number of stocks. Plus, the founder of the Christian Hiiemaa said that the NFC reader, mobile-enabled transactions.

Erply credit card reader at a price of $ 50 with 1.9% transaction fee is a bit smaller than the square, VeriFone and Intuit charges. The area has recently dropped its transaction fee of $ 0.15 and charges merchants a flat 2.75%. Intuit made a similar move. But the square reader software for free, while software Erply nowhere varies from $ 70 to $ 1000 per month. You can also use Erply their existing user base of 20000 retailers who use the company's software for inventory management.

Of course it is important to note that Intuit GoPayment reader integrates with popular accounting software Quickbooks, and also developed a more comprehensive point of sale system with his latest iPad app. And the square grows quickly, especially among small businesses.

Erply actually is the winner of Seedcamp and has raised $ 2 million in funding from Redpoint and Index Ventures, Marten Mickos, Zack Urlocker (both formerly of MySQL), Kenny Van Zant (SolarWinds), Aydin Senkut, David McClure and the accelerator group. Erply mobile credit card reader is available now for iPad and will be provided within three months for the iPhone.

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Twitter takes additional measures to protect sensitive documents

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Twitter cooperates with a German company called Brainloop in an effort to more effectively safeguard and enhance its ability to share and collaborate on confidential documents.

Brainloop offers online platform that helps companies such as Twitter, but also clients as BMW and Nokia protect sensitive documents and automatically apply security policies required for the files that they want to protect from strangers.

Needless to say, that we are not too happy with the recent development.

News of the partnership between Twitter and Brainloop comes less than two weeks after it appeared on the former, raising 800 million dollars in financing for investors and employees cash out until the final sale or IPO.

Twitter declined to comment on the reports.

In the statement of the Twitter VP Finance Luca Baratta said the company was "delighted" to work with Brainloop and that companies are protected online workspace solution will help Twitter as it expands its global footprint. Brainloop CEO Peter Weger explains what his company does, in a nutshell:

"We make it easy for employees, partners, investors and other interested parties, whether they are inside or outside the network to carry out their work, knowing that they comply with the rules of confidentiality that their intellectual property is protected and the best thing that they do not have to worry about that."

In short: Brainloop helps prevent sensitive information from leaking for people like us, Twitter.

Some of the features available in the company's compliance management solution include ' nowhere ', Web access, paper, jointly-controlled user access control, two-factor authentication via SMS contacts, 256-bit encryption, and integration with Microsoft and Adobe's rights management to prevent unauthorized forwarding, printing, and saving documents at any time.

Further details of the deal between Brainloop and Twitter were not leaked.

Brainloop is located in Munich, Germany, and has an Office in Boston, Massachusetts (United States). The company raised 2 million euro funding to date.

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