Walmart, via its Silicon Valley innovation lab @WalmartLabs, today announced the acquisition of two startups: cloud computing newcomer OneOps and the software development shop Tasty Labs, from Delicious founder?Joshua Schachter. Tasty Labs offered two services Jig.com and Human.io – both domains which are now redirecting to Walmart’s?acquisition?announcement, along with that of their corporate parent. Walmart declined to disclose deal terms. OneOps?developed a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capability that Walmart explains will enable it to “significantly accelerate” its PaaS and Private Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) strategies. The company offered developer tools built from the ground up for those who host their applications on cloud services like Amazon’s Web Services, for example, as well as Rackspace and HP Cloud. Developers could publish to any cloud, and seamlessly port their apps elsewhere as needed, eliminating lock-in. The company offered a library of predefined building blocks to quickly bootstrap an application, which could be visually assembled in its interface. A variety of categories such as content management (ex. Drupal, WordPress), e-commerce (ex. Magento), enterprise portals (ex. Liferay), and more were available. OneOps was named one of?12 Hot Cloud Computing Companies Worth Watching by Network World, and was a finalist at the?GigaOM?LaunchPad Competition. “Walmart is looking to create a best-in-class global eCommerce platform to power ‘anytime, anywhere’ shopping for our customers. The Platform team has been working tirelessly to build the tools to help our developers deliver big site changes faster,” explains Walmart Public Relations Director Ravi Jariwala in a statement. “We are innovating on a very large scale, and OneOps brings us tools that will allow us to move even faster toward a global platform.” Meanwhile, Tasty Labs was founded in 2010 by a team which includes ex-Mozillian?Nick Nguyen, HousingMaps creator Paul Rademacher, and Joshua Schachter, who was best known for founding of of “web 2.0″‘s finest: the social bookmarking service Delicious. The company had raised $3 million?in Series A funding from?Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and other unnamed angel investors. The startup launched its first product Jig.com in 2011, which was described as a “marketplace for needs” – meaning users would post “I need…” and others would respond to help them. The following year, it debuted Human.io, a micro-task service operating in the space general space. This application targeted businesses with small requests – like wanting to know how many people were in line at a store, for example, or getting people to take short surveysSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/G3q2CNEENzA/
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