Category Archives: messaging

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→

Threads emerges from stealth with $10.5M from Sequoia for a new take on enabaling work conversations

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The rapid rise of Slack has ushered in a new wave of apps, all aiming to solve one challenge: creating a user-friendly platform where coworkers can have productive conversations. Many of these are based around real-time notifications and “instant” messaging, but today a new startup called Threads coming out of stealth to address the other […] Continue reading Threads emerges from stealth with $10.5M from Sequoia for a new take on enabaling work conversations→

Facebook Faces Hurdles as it Attempts to Unify Messaging Platforms

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Facebook announced plans this week to begin work on integrating the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp messaging platforms. Integrating these three massive platforms will not be an easy task, and the news has caused some backlash from privacy … Continue reading Facebook Faces Hurdles as it Attempts to Unify Messaging Platforms→

Microsoft’s latest Teams features take aim at shift workers

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Collaboration tools tend to be geared towards workers who are sitting at a desk for much of the day, but there are plenty of shift workers, also known as first line workers, who rarely use a computer, but still need to communicate with one another and management. Microsoft released several new features today aimed at […] Continue reading Microsoft’s latest Teams features take aim at shift workers→