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Opendoor files to raise another $200M at a $3.7B valuation, documents show
The housing market is predicted to cool this year, but the market for startups selling houses? It seems to be heating up. Opendoor, the company that aims to bypass real estate agents and brokers by p
DriveNets emerges from stealth with $110M for its cloud-based alternative to network routers
Software is eating the world, and today a startup that’s taking this maxim to the world of telecoms has raised a big round of funding as it comes out of stealth. DriveNets, a company out of Isra
Amazon Moments lets developers reward customers with actual gifts, not just virtual ones
App and web developers are always trying to figure out better ways of keeping their users engaged on their platforms for longer. Today, Amazon is launching a service that it hopes those developers wil
First look at Twitter’s Snapchatty new Camera feature
Twitter has been secretly developing an enhanced camera feature that’s accessible with a swipe from the home screen and allows you to overlay captions on photos, videos, and Live broadcasts befo
Ebay restructures regional operations, lays off a percentage of its workforce
E-commerce marketplace eBay has been rethinking its operations in a bid to bring the company back to growth amid strong competition from the likes of Amazon and a plethora of other online marketplaces
Amazon, Western Union debut PayCode to sell goods in emerging markets and let shoppers pay in cash
While Amazon has been methodical (read: a little slow) in launching local versions of its site for various global markets, it has now embarked on a secondary track to snag more business outside the 14
Alibaba’s Ant Financial buys UK currency exchange giant WorldFirst reportedly for around $700M
Ant Financial, the financial services behemoth affiliated with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has made its first big move into Europe. It’s acquired London-headquartered payments company Worl
SEC charges former Apple compliance lawyer with insider trading, avoiding $382K in losses
The shine on Apple is getting a little tarnished. Today, the SEC filed a suit against Gene Levoff, a lawyer who used to work for the iPhone giant, accusing him of insider trading, selling millions of
Rapyd nabs $40M led by Stripe and GC for ‘fintech as a service,’ a single API for payments, money transfer and more
As ever more transactions move onto digital platforms, a startup that is building a Swiss army knife of financial services — from payments to currency transfers, ID verifications and card issuin
Dandelion Energy, the Alphabet X spin out, raises another $16M led by GV and Comcast
As tech companies continue their race to control the smart home, a promising energy startup has raised a round of funding from traditionally tech and strategic investors for a geothermal solution to h
Google takes Hire, its G Suite recruitment platform, to its first global markets, UK and Canada
The recruitment market is big business — worth some $554 billion annually according to the most recent report from the World Employment Confederation. In the tech world, that translates into a b
Jobvite raises $200M+ and acquires three recruitment startups to expand its platform play
Jobvite, the company that was once an early mover in leveraging social networks to help source job opportunities and find interesting candidates for openings, is today announcing two big moves to doub
LinkedIn debuts LinkedIn Live, a new live video broadcast service
LinkedIn — the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users globally — says that video is the fastest-growing format on its platform alongside original written work
Item tracking startup Adero is laying off 45% of staff, just weeks after it pivoted
Pivots can be the making of a startup, helping teams refocus on a good idea when previous things haven’t worked. But sometimes, they are just one more step on a difficult track. TechCrunch has l
Twitter Q4 beats on sales of $909M and EPS of $0.33, but MAUs slump to just 321M
After strong results from Facebook and Snap this quarter, all eyes were on Twitter to see if the other big, publicly listed social network could deliver a hat trick of growth. If we judged the company
Spotify reports 29% rise in MAUs to 207M but misses on Q4 revenues of $1.702B
Spotify continues to see growing uptake for its all-you-can-eat streaming music (and increasingly podcast) services, even as it fell short of analyst expectations on sales in its earnings. In Q4 resul
vArmour, a security startup focused on multi-cloud deployments, raises $44M
As more organizations move to cloud-based IT architectures, a startup that’s helping them secure that data in an efficient way has raised some capital. vArmour, which provides a platform to help
Retail technology platform Relex raises $200M from TCV
Amazon’s formidable presence in the world of retail stems partly from the fact that it’s just not a commerce giant, it’s also a tech company — building solutions and platforms
Hatch, Rovio’s ‘Netflix for gaming,’ picks up NTT Docomo as a strategic investor
Rovio’s efforts to diversify beyond its Angry Birds franchise is getting a little investment boost today. The company announced that Japan’s NTT Docomo is taking a stake in Hatch, a Rovio
Amazon invests in Hatch Baby, launches Baby Skill Activity API as it eyes up the next generation of parenting products
Amazon today is one of the biggest retailers of gear for babies and other parenting aides, and today the company is taking another two steps into that business and how it might develop in the future.