Author Archives: Ingrid Lunden

PubNub nabs $23M as its IaaS network hits 1.3T messages sent each month

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There’s been a huge boom in the last decade of applications and services that rely on on real-time notifications and other alerts as a core part of how they operate, and today one of the companies that powers those notifications is announcing a growth round. PubNub, an infrastructure-as-a-service provider that provides a real-time network to send and […] Continue reading PubNub nabs $23M as its IaaS network hits 1.3T messages sent each month→

PubNub nabs $23M as its IaaS network hits 1.3T messages sent each month

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There’s been a huge boom in the last decade of applications and services that rely on on real-time notifications and other alerts as a core part of how they operate, and today one of the companies that powers those notifications is announcing a growth round. PubNub, an infrastructure-as-a-service provider that provides a real-time network to send and […] Continue reading PubNub nabs $23M as its IaaS network hits 1.3T messages sent each month→

Online university degree provider 2U acquires Trilogy for $750M to expand into tech bootcamps and training

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As more universities turn to offering online degrees to expand their student bodies by way of cyberspace, one of the pioneers in enabling that trend has made an acquisition to expand into new territory around skills training and continuing education. 2U, which helps build online degree programs for a number of top universities, is paying $750 […] Continue reading Online university degree provider 2U acquires Trilogy for $750M to expand into tech bootcamps and training→

Onfido, which verifies IDs using AI, nabs $50M from SoftBank, Salesforce, Microsoft and more

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Security breaches, where malicious hackers obtain snippets of information that then get used to impersonate individuals in order to gain access to individuals’ and businesses’ sensitive financial and other private information, have become par for the course in the world of digital services. More than 2.7 billion records were  breached in a single incident this year […] Continue reading Onfido, which verifies IDs using AI, nabs $50M from SoftBank, Salesforce, Microsoft and more→

TradingView acquires TradeIt to add instant trading APIs to its investor toolkit

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After raising $37 million to bring its on-the-spot stock market analytics tools to a wider range of publishers and other internet partners, TradingView today has announced its first acquisition to supercharge the services that it offers to investors, wherever they happen to be online. The startup has acquired TradeIt, which has built an API for […] Continue reading TradingView acquires TradeIt to add instant trading APIs to its investor toolkit→

Microsoft teams up with BMW for the IoT-focused Open Manufacturing Platform

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Car companies are making big investments in technology to help ensure that they are not cut out of the next generation of transportation and automotive manufacturing, and today came the latest development in that trend. The BMW Group and Microsoft announced they would team up in a new effort called the Open Manufacturing Platform, aimed […] Continue reading Microsoft teams up with BMW for the IoT-focused Open Manufacturing Platform→

German LinkedIn rival Xing is rebranding as ‘New Work’ acquires recruitment platform Honeypot for up to $64M

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Xing, the business networking platform that has been described as Germany’s answer to LinkedIn, has made an acquisition to beef up its recruitment business ahead of a rebrand of the business as “New Work.” The company has acquired Honeypot, a German startup that has built a job-hunting platform for tech people, for up to €57 […] Continue reading German LinkedIn rival Xing is rebranding as ‘New Work’ acquires recruitment platform Honeypot for up to $64M→

Alibaba has acquired Teambition, a China-based Trello and Asana rival, in its enterprise push

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Alibaba has made an acquisition as it continues to square up to the opportunity in enterprise services in China and beyond, akin to what its US counterpart Amazon has done with AWS. TechCrunch has confirmed that the e-commerce and cloud services giant has acquired Teambition, a Microsoft- and Tencent-backed platform for coworkers to plan and collaborate […] Continue reading Alibaba has acquired Teambition, a China-based Trello and Asana rival, in its enterprise push→

Before breaking up with Shopify, Mailchimp quietly acqui-hired LemonStand, a Shopify competitor

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Here’s an interesting twist on the story from last week about the break-up between Shopify and Mailchimp, after the two said they were at odds over how customer data was shared between the two companies. It turns out that before it parted ways with Shopify, Mailchimp had quietly made an acquisition of LemonStand, one of the […] Continue reading Before breaking up with Shopify, Mailchimp quietly acqui-hired LemonStand, a Shopify competitor→

Lola.com raises $37M to take on SAP and others in the world of business travel

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Business customers continue to be a huge target for the travel industry, and today a startup has raised a tidy sum to help it double down on the $1.7 trillion opportunity. Lola.com — a platform for business users to book and manage trips — has raised $37 million to continue building out its technology and […] Continue reading Lola.com raises $37M to take on SAP and others in the world of business travel→