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Sinch snaps up MessageMedia for $1.3B to compete with Twilio in business SMS services

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Sinch — the Swedish company that provides a suite of services for companies to build communications and specifically “customer engagement” into their services by way of APIs — has made yet another acquisition in its global march to scale up its business and compete more squarely with Twilio. The company today announced that it has […] Continue reading Sinch snaps up MessageMedia for $1.3B to compete with Twilio in business SMS services→

Spam over phone and email is changing consumer communication preferences

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Of today’s main communications mediums – text, phone calls and email – consumers get the most spam over phone and email: 70% said they receive spam often over email and 51% said the same for phone calls, a Zipwhip survey reveals. Fifty-four percent of … Continue reading Spam over phone and email is changing consumer communication preferences→

Zipwhip nabs $9M from Microsoft + others to let landlines send and receive SMS texts

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zipwhip-app Consumers have made a big shift to using mobile phones as their primary, and often sole, telephone, but as they have done so, they’ve also created something of a rift in the business world: many of the companies that count those consumers as customers are still using landlines — 275 million businesses in the U.S. alone — resulting in a feature gulf between how the two… Read More Continue reading Zipwhip nabs $9M from Microsoft + others to let landlines send and receive SMS texts→