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8×8 announced the appointment of Stephanie Garcia as Chief Human Resources Officer, reporting to CEO Dave Sipes. Garcia, a human resources executive with experience at several high-growth technology companies, will be responsible for leading the H… Continue reading Stephanie Garcia joins 8×8 as Chief Human Resources Officer
8×8 announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fuze for approximately $250 million in stock and cash. The acquisition will accelerate 8×8 XCaaS (eXperience Communications as a Service) innovation and expand 8×8’… Continue reading 8×8 acquires Fuze to expand enterprise customer base and global presence
RudderStack, a startup that offers an open-source alternative to customer data management platforms like Segment, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed round led by S28 Captial. Salil Deshpande of Uncorrelated Ventures and Mesosphere/D2iQ co-founder Florian Leibert (through 468 Capital) also participated in this round. In addition, the company also today announced […] Continue reading RudderStack raises $5M seed round for its open-source Segment competitor
Wavecell, a cloud-communications platform for companies in Southeast Asia, announced today that it has been acquired by 8×8 in a deal worth about $125 million. The acquisition will help San Jose, California-based 8×8 expand in Asia, where Wavecell already has offices in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Hong Kong. Wavecell’s cloud API platform, which […] Continue reading Southeast Asian cloud communications platform Wavecell acquired by 8×8 in deal worth $125 million
8×8, a leading cloud provider of voice, video, chat and contact center solutions for over one million users worldwide, launched 8×8 Managed Technical Services, a fully managed service for network optimization that combines SD-WAN and new 8… Continue reading 8×8 Managed Technical Services, a fully managed service for network optimization, now available
In this era of 4K UHD game console graphics and controllers packed full of buttons, triggers, and joysticks, it’s good to occasionally take a step back from the leading edge. Take a breath and remind ourselves that we don’t always need all those pixels and buttons to have some fun. …read more
For anyone who’s been fiddling around with computers since the days before VGA, “Hunt the Wumpus” probably brings back fond memories. Developed in 1973, this text game has you move around a system of caves searching for the foul-smelling Wumpus, a vile creature which you must dispatch with your trusty bow and arrow. Some consider it to be one of the very first survival horror games ever developed, a predecessor to the Resident Evil franchise as well as the video game version of Hannah Montana: The Movie.
If the concept of “Hunt the Wumpus” sounds interesting to you, …read more
For this year’s office holiday party, [Gavan Fantom] wanted to do something really special. Coworkers were messing with LEDs to come up with displays and decorations, but they lack that old-school feel of mechanical displays. He wanted to create something that had retro look of moving elements, but didn’t want to just recreate the traditional flip mechanism we’ve all seen over and over.
What [Gavan] came up with is breathtakingly impractical 8×8 display that sounds as cool as it looks. Each “pixel” in the display is a 3D printed screw mechanism rotated by a hobby servo. As the pixel is …read more
Continue reading A Gloriously Impractical Electromechanical Display