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Clutter acquires The Storage Fox for $152M to add self-storage to its on-demand platform
The world of on-demand storage has seen some ups and downs, with some of the biggest hopefuls pivoting into new areas, some as unrelated as cryptocurrency, in the search for better product-market fit
Twitter discloses another 10,000 accounts suspended for fomenting political discord globally
Twitter’s ongoing, and possibly Sisyphean, effort of policing and removing nefarious content disseminated on its platform is taking another step forward today. The company’s safety team ha
Payments giant Stripe is raising another $250M at a $35B pre-money valuation
After a week of launching new services to bring payments giant Stripe into the areas of lending and credit, the company is announcing another big step forward to fuel its growth: it’s raising an
HappyOrNot raises $25M for its customer satisfaction terminals for stores and other locations
Customer experience in the physical world has been getting a major infusion of tech in recent years. We now have systems being built to replace cashiers, sensors in stores and other physical locations
Aliro comes out of stealth with $2.7M to ‘democratize’ quantum computing with developer tools
It’s still early days for quantum computing, but we’re nonetheless seeing an interesting group of startups emerging that are helping the world take advantage of the new technology now. Ali
Andrew Mason’s Descript snags $15M, acquires Lyrebird to let users type text to create audio in their own voices
The boom in popularity for podcasting has given a new voice to the world of spoken word content that had been largely left for dead with the decline of broadcast radio. Now riding the wave of that gro
LinkedIn launches skills assessments, tests that let you beef up your credentials for job hunting
LinkedIn, the social networking service for the working world, is today taking the wraps off its latest effort to provide its users with better tools for presenting their professional selves, and to m
Snapchat is adding a 3D Camera Mode, the latest salvo in its feature race with Instagram
The newest version of Snap’s Spectacles already has a 3D feature that lets you see the world with immersive filter effects, and now the company’s flagship app Snapchat is levelling up. Tod
Under pressure, The We Company now only says it expects to go public ‘by the end of the year’
The We Company, beleaguered parent of the short-term real estate property management and development company WeWork and other We-related subsidiaries, has issued a statement that says it “expect
Trigo raises $22M for an automated grocery check-out platform, similar to Amazon Go
Automated check-out systems in supermarkets, where cashiers are replaced by barcode-readers and touchscreen interfaces for taking payments, have become a commonplace fixture in many parts of the world
Salesforce doubles down on verticals, launches Manufacturing and Consumer Goods Clouds
As legacy industries make the migration to cloud-based digital solutions to run and grow their businesses, Salesforce is hoping that it will get a cut of the action when it comes to their IT investmen
Element AI raises $151M on a $600-700M valuation to help companies build and run AI solutions
While tech giants like Google and Amazon build and invest in a multitude of artificial intelligence applications to grow their businesses, a startup has raised a big round of funding to help those tha
Fair acquires Canvas from Ford to expand its on-demand vehicle subscription business
Fair, the $1.2 billion startup backed by SoftBank that has built a smartphone-based car leasing platform that lets people takes cars for as little as one month, is making another acquisition in the on
SmartDrive snaps up $90M for in-truck video telematics solutions for safety and fuel efficiency
Trucks and other large commercial vehicles are the biggest whales on the road today — are they also, by virtue of that size, some of the most dangerous and inefficient if they are driven badly.
Spotify acquires SoundBetter, a music production marketplace, for an undisclosed sum
Spotify today took another step in its efforts to build out services for artists to help diversify itself away from a business model predicated on paying music streaming royalties to labels: it has a
The Wikimedia Foundation taps $2.5M from Craig Newmark to beef up its security
Last week, users around the world found Wikipedia down after the online, crowdsourced encyclopedia became the target of a massive, sustained DDoS attack — one that it is still actively fighting
Payments giant Stripe debuts a credit card in its latest step into the financing fray
Last week, when the popular payments startup Stripe made some waves with its first move into money lending through the launch of Stripe Capital, we reported that the company was also soon going to be
Snyk grabs $70M more to detect security vulnerabilities in open-source code and containers
A growing number of IT breaches has led to security becoming a critical and central aspect of how computing systems are run and maintained. Today, a startup that focuses on one specific area — d
Q-CTRL raises $15M for software that reduces error and noise in quantum computing hardware
As hardware makers continue to work on ways of making wide-scale quantum computing a reality, a startup out of Australia that is building software to help reduce noise and errors on quantum computing
Syte snaps up $21.5M for its smartphone-based visual search engine for e-commerce
Visual search has become a key component for how people discover products when buying online: If a person doesn’t know the exact name of what he or she wants, or what they want is not available,