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Cashback app Dosh raises $44M on a $240M valuation from PayPal and more
In an era where we can buy whatever we want from wherever we want nearly in the blink of an eye, loyalty, rewards and membership programs have become a major lever in capturing repeat consumer spend &
IFTTT raises $24M led by Salesforce to expand its platform to ‘connect everything’
IFTTT, a startup that was an early mover in API integrations by creating a platform for people to write easy scripts to connect different apps to each other (the name stands for “if this, then t
Allegro.AI nabs $11M for ‘deep learning as a service’, for businesses to build computer vision products
Artificial intelligence and the application of it across nearly every aspect of our lives is shaping up to be one of the major step changes of our modern society. Today, a startup that wants to help o
Twitter revoked API access for 142K apps covering 130M ‘low-quality’ tweets in 1 week under new terms
Twitter is making good on its pledge to fight the persistent problems of spam, bots, harassment and misinformation that have plagued the social platform for years. Today, in its generally positive Q1
Oracle acquired Grapeshot, a ‘brand safety’ marketing provider, sources say for up to $400M
In the era of fake news and controversies over how brands’ advertising — via programmatic platforms — unwittingly ends up alongside content with which they’d rather not be asso
Enterprise firm Mitel to be acquired for $2B by Rackspace investor Searchlight
Mitel, the enterprise communications company that tried but failed to buy Polycom for $2 billion, is now being acquired for $2 billion itself. The company today announced that it has agreed to be acqu
Culture Trip picks up $80M for its millennial-focused travel site
While a lot of travel startups (Airbnb, Ctrip, Kayak, to name a few) have made waves by disrupting how people search for and buy accommodation, flights and other travel services, the ongoing interest
Amazon in talks to acquire Evine in home shopping TV move
Amazon has now passed 100 million subscribers for its Prime loyalty shopping program, underscoring its growth as an e-commerce, cloud services and streaming media behemoth. But it’s also looking
Google confirms some of its own services are now getting blocked in Russia over the Telegram ban
A shower of paper airplanes darted through the skies of Moscow and other towns in Russia today, as users answered the call of entrepreneur Pavel Durov to send the blank missives out of their windows
Russia’s game of Telegram whack-a-mole grows to 19M blocked IPs, hitting Twitch, Spotify and more
As the messaging app Telegram continues to try to evade Russian authorities by switching up its IP addresses, Russia’s regulator Roskomnadzor (RKN) has continued its game of whack-a-mole to try
iZettle expands from mobile payments into e-commerce and online sales for SMBs
iZettle, the startup out of Sweden that has been referred to as the Square of Europe, is today making a move that underscores its bigger strategy to build on its traction with small businesses in mobi
BenevolentAI, which uses AI to develop drugs and energy solutions, nabs $115M at $2B valuation
In the ongoing race to build the best and smartest applications that tap into the advances of artificial intelligence, a startup out of London has raised a large round of funding to double down on sol
Stripe debuts Radar anti-fraud AI tools for big businesses, says it has halted $4B in fraud to date
Cybersecurity continues to be a growing focus and problem in the digital world, and now Stripe is launching a new paid product that it hopes will help its customers better battle one of the bigger sid
Yahoo Mail launches new wave of updates with faster loads, photo themes, RSVPs, improved OOO
While many are on the lookout for a new, big revamp of Gmail, its smaller competitor Yahoo Mail today jumped in first with its own set of updates, covering both new personalization features and faster
Russia’s Telegram ban that knocked out 15M Google, Amazon IP addresses had a precedent in Zello
Russia blocking access to Telegram after the messaging app refused to give it access to encrypted messages has picked up an unintended casualty: we’re now up to over 15 million IP addresses fro
Sinovation, co-founded by the ex-head of Google China, nabs $50M from BBVA for its $500M AI fund
It’s not often that you hear many details about the limited partners that feed money into a venture capital fund, and even less so when it’s about Western money being channelled into Chine
GoFundMe acquires YouCaring as charitable crowdfunding continues to consolidate
GoFundMe, the startup that focuses on crowdfunding for charitable causes, has made another acquisition to scale up its platform: It has acquired YouCaring, a smaller rival, creating a combined communi
Asana introduces Timeline, lays groundwork for AI-based monitoring as the “team brain” for productivity
When workflow management platform Asana announced a $75 million round of funding in January led by former Vice President Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management, the startup didn’t give
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop raises another $50 million
Actress-turned-entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow is getting more capital to accelerate her startup’s growth. Goop, the lifestyle brand which she founded ten years ago, is announcing a $50 million Ser
Terry Myerson, EVP of Windows and Devices, is leaving Microsoft, prompting a big AI, Azure and devices reorganization
Big changes are afoot at Microsoft . The company has announced that Terry Myerson, the longtime Microsoftie who headed up the company’s Windows and Devices businesses, is leaving the company, an