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It always stings to hear a prospect say, "Oh you’re like a cheaper/newer version of [your biggest competitor]." It stings even more when you know you have a superior product.

Viola Ventures, an Israeli VC, has closed its sixth fund of $250 million. It now has $1.25 billion in assets under management, largely early-stage tech companies. Viola says the fund was oversubscribe

Outbrain, an adtech company that provides clickbait ads below news articles, has raised $200 million in funding — Outbrain didn’t disclose the valuation of the company for this deal. The Baupo

As remote work continues to solidify its place as a critical aspect of how businesses exist these days, a startup that has built a platform to help companies source and bring on one specific category

A massive content recommendation merger falls apart, Microsoft reveals the release date and pricing for its flagship game console and Alexa enables phone calls for AT&T customers. This is your Dai

Online advertising is a game of scale, but one attempt to consolidate two competitors to better take on Google and Facebook has fallen apart. Taboola and Outbrain, startups that each provide publisher

The emergence, and now seemingly extended presence, of the novel coronavirus health pandemic has made remote working into a pretty standard part of office life for so-called knowledge workers. Today,

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Some consolidation is afoot in the world of advertising. Taboola and Outbrain, rivals that both operate advertising-based content recommendation engines for publishers — which typically appear i

Outbrain, the network known for distributing garbage clickbait articles and ads on sites across the internet, is now going to offer a premium product that ensures that the articles recommended to folk

Taboola and Outbrain -- two content recommendations companies that employ roughly 500 people, were formed the same year (2006) and have each raised substantial sums of venture capital -- are in advanc

Israeli startups look to America for inspiration, money and, of course, exits. But recent events indicate a change in course, at least for Israeli advertising and marketing technology companies that h

Outbrain is announcing that it has raised $35 million in new funding. If you've ever read an article and found a widget at the bottom recommending stories you might also like (which can come from m

Content discovery service <a target="_blank" href="http://www.outbrain.com">Outbrain</a> is announcing that it has hired Jeff Davison as its chief financial officer. The news comes about a day afte

Today, content discovery platform <a href="http://www.outbrain.com/">Outbrain</a> is announcing it has secured $35 million in Series D funding in a round led by Index Ventures. Existing investors Ca