Collaborate Disseminate
The market for social media and collaboration services for enterprises — made popular by the recent, rapid growth and emergence of platforms like Slack, Facebook’s Workplace and Microsoft Teams — continues its hot streak. Today,… Continue reading Igloo, a Jive-style enterprise collaboration platform, raises $47M
Patents may sometimes get a bad rap for how they are abused (and misused) by some companies for commercial gain, but they also remain a marker of how a tech company is progressing with its R&D and pushing ahead on innovation. For one measure … Continue reading IBM led on patents in 2017, Facebook broke into top 50 for the first time
August Home, the smart lock startup that was acquired by lock giant Assa Abloy in October last year, is stepping up its delivery game. At CES today, the company announced a service it’s calling August Access, where retailers can work with A… Continue reading August Access, an in-home delivery service first tested with Walmart, opens to all retailers
While Google dominates the world when it comes to search, portals for those looking for products and services in specific niches continue to have a place in our online world. In one of the latest developments, Smava, a German startup that has bui… Continue reading Germany’s Smava raises $65M to expand its consumer loan portal
While apps continue to grow in popularity as a primary route for people to interface with the digital world, there remains a very significant role for the web, and today, a startup that helps businesses build and run websites, specifically on Wor… Continue reading WP Engine, a managed WordPress platform, raises $250M from Silver Lake
On the heels of Lemonade raising $120 million from Softbank for its new “peer-to-peer” spin on insurance services, another company aimed at disrupting the insurance market is announcing a major round of its own. Bima, a European start… Continue reading Bima raises $97M from Allianz for microinsurance aimed at emerging markets
iZettle — the payments startup based out of Stockholm that competes against companies like Square, Paypal and SumUp to provide card transactions using smartphones and tablets as well as related accounting services — has raised another… Continue reading Payments startup iZettle raises $47M, reportedly at a $950M valuation
A company that is seizing the opportunity to provide predictive analytics to the industrial world — regardless of whether a business has made the (often costly) transition to internet-of-things “smart” systems — is today a… Continue reading Uptake nabs $117M at $2.3B valuation for industrial predictive analytics
Here, the mapping company that powers location services in 100 million cars, is today announcing an acquisition to vastly improve how it distributes and updates its data. The company is buying Advanced Telematic Systems (ATS), a Berlin-based deve… Continue reading Mapping company Here buys ATS to boost its over-the-air tech
Video is what consumers are paying attention to these days, and Amazon’s AWS is hoping to capitalise on that with one of its latest launches. Doubling down on its video services for media companies, app publishers — and actually any o… Continue reading Amazon debuts Elemental-based AWS Media Services for video app creation