Category Archives: Twilio

As companies accelerate their digital transitions, employees detail a changed workplace

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The U.S.’s COVID-19 caseload continues to set records as major states move to re-shutter their economies in hopes of stemming its spread. For many workers the situation means more time in the home office, and less time in their traditional workplace. What the world will look like when safety eventually returns is not clear, but […] Continue reading As companies accelerate their digital transitions, employees detail a changed workplace→

Laundry Monitor Won’t Generate Static with Roommates

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Laundry. It’s one of life’s inescapable cycles, but at least we have machines now. The downside of this innovation is that since we no longer monitor every step — the rock-beating, the river-rinsing, the line-hanging and -retrieving — the pain of laundry has evolved into the monotony of monitoring the …read more

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Why we’re doubling down on cloud investments right now

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We believe that the next generation of transformative cloud companies will emerge even faster as a result of the new normal created by COVID-19. Continue reading Why we’re doubling down on cloud investments right now→

Checkly raises $2.25M seed round for its monitoring and testing platform

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Checkly, a Berlin-based startup that is developing a monitoring and testing platform for DevOps teams, today announced that it has raised a $2.25 million seed round led by Accel. A number of angel investors, including Instana CEO Mirko Novakovic, Zeit CEO Guillermo Rauch and former Twilio CTO Ott Kaukver, also participated in this round. The […] Continue reading Checkly raises $2.25M seed round for its monitoring and testing platform→

Twilio 2010 board deck gives peek at now-public company’s early days

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Twilio is best known for its communications API, which allows developers to add messaging, voice or video to their apps with just a small slice of code. The company’s tools are used by customers like Lyft, Airbnb, Salesforce, Box and Duke University. The former startup went public in 2016 at $15 a share. Yesterday Twilio’s […] Continue reading Twilio 2010 board deck gives peek at now-public company’s early days→

APIs are the next big SaaS wave

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While the software revolution started out slowly, over the past few years it’s exploded and the fastest-growing segment to-date has been the shift towards software as a service or SaaS… Continue reading APIs are the next big SaaS wave→

Atlassian’s co-CEO Scott Farquhar will join us at TC Sessions: Enterprise

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Few companies have changed the way developers work as profoundly as Atlassian. Its tools like Jira and Confluence are ubiquitous, and over the course of the last few years, the company has started to adapt many of them for wider enterprise usage outside of developer teams. To talk about Atlassian’s story from being a small […] Continue reading Atlassian’s co-CEO Scott Farquhar will join us at TC Sessions: Enterprise→

Twilio partners with Microsoft Azure and adds a new feature for its IoT SIMs

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Twilio, the leading cloud communications platform, announced Trust Onboard, a feature for its IoT SIMs that enables developers to identify and authenticate cellular connected devices against cloud services. Twilio launched Programmable Wireless in Apri… Continue reading Twilio partners with Microsoft Azure and adds a new feature for its IoT SIMs→

Vonage brings number programmability to its business service

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Chances are you still mostly think of Vonage as a consumer VOIP player, but in recent years, the company also launched its Vonage Business Cloud (VBC) platform and acquired Nexmo, an API-based communications service that competes directly with many of Twilio’s core services. Today, Vonage is bringing its VBC service and Nexmo a bit closer […] Continue reading Vonage brings number programmability to its business service→

Sudo Find Me a Parking Space; Machine Learning Ends Circling the Block

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If you live in a bustling city and have anyone over who drives, it can be difficult for them to find parking. Maybe you have an assigned space, but they’re resigned to circling the block with an eagle eye. With those friends in  mind, [Adam Geitgey] wrote a Python script that takes the video feed from a web cam and analyzes it frame by frame to figure out when a street parking space opens up. When the glorious moment arrives, he gets a text message via Twilio with a picture of the void.

It sounds complicated, but much of the …read more

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