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Twilio came ahead of expectations and the stock is going nuts
Twilio today reported a positive quarter that brought it to profitability — on an adjusted basis — ahead of schedule for Wall Street, sending the stock soaring 16 percent in extended hours after t
Twilio launches its new partner program
Twilio, the publicly traded API-first communications platform, today announced the launch of Twilio Build, its new partner program. Twilio Build is an extension of the company’s existing partner
Twilio adds support for LINE
The developer-centric communications platform Twilio today announced that it has added support for LINE to Twilio Channels. With this, Twilio developers now have the ability to reach users on this ser
Twilio’s wireless platform hits general availability
For a communications platform like Twilio, getting into wireless always seemed like a logical next move and a year ago, the company did just that with the beta launch of its SIM-based Programmable Wir
Lessons from cybersecurity exits
Mahendra Ramsinghani Contributor Mahendra Ramsinghani is the founder of Secure Octane, a Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity seed fund. More posts by this contributor Is Symantec getting ready to buy S
Twilio launches Flex, a fully programmable contact center
Earlier this year we reported that Twilio was going to launch a full contact center solution called Flex on March 12 — lo and behold, today is March 12 and Twilio today announced the launch of F
Twilio will soon launch Flex, a dedicated contact center solution
Twilio's Engagement Cloud, its suite of products for building new customer experiences, is about to get a new feature, TechCrunch has learned. The company plans on launching the beta of a full contact
Edovo, a startup that provides tablet-based education to incarcerated people, snags some funding
Twilio has invested $250,000 in startup Edovo, which creates tablet-based educational content for incarcerated individuals. Twilio has also invested grant money in the International Rescue Committee,
Twilio Studio lets you build communication services without having to code
Twilio has long made a name for itself as a service that lets developers easily add audio, video and text communication to their applications, but with Twilio Studio, which is launching as a closed pr
GoDaddy tells white supremacist site Daily Stormer to find a new domain provider
White supremacist site Daily Stormer needs to find another domain provider after getting the boot from GoDaddy. In a tweet, the company said “We informed The Daily Stormer that they have 24 hours to
McClure steps back at 500 Startups after internal sexual misconduct investigation
Dave McClure, the founder and public face of 500 Startups — one of the most prolific and best-known accelerator programs for early stage companies — has stepped away from managing the firm
Twilio Functions lets developers build communications apps without having to worry about servers
Twilio is getting into the serverless game today with the beta launch of Twilio Functions. Like other so-called "serverless" platforms, Functions abstracts away all of the tiresome server and infrastr
IPOs, leaving money on the table and get off my lawn
IPO pops, who makes off with the money and leaving money on some damn table.
Crunch Report | Facebook Hires 3,000 People After Getting Disturbed
Facebook hires 3,000 people to combat the disturbing videos and live videos that have been popping up on the site, Hulu launches its live TV service, yesterday was not too good of a day for tech stock
Twilio stock plummets as major client Uber distances itself
A good report on revenue wasn't enough to keep Twilio stock from taking a dive in after-hours trading. What at first glance appeared to be a positive story very quickly divulged into a financial night
An inside look at Bessemer Venture Partners’ investment process for Twilio
Mark Twain once said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. If Twilio provides any indication of what’s to come, we believe now more than ever in the future of the business-to-deve
Twilio now lets developers send and receive faxes
No, this is not an April Fools' joke: Cloud communications platform Twilio today announced the launch of its "programmable fax" service. While Twilio's general focus has been on reinventing the phone
500 Startups reboots its efforts in China, but there’s no dedicated fund
500 Startups is rebooting its efforts in Greater China after it hired a new head of business for the region, which covers mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Edith Yeung, a former executive with bro
Twilio acquires Beepsend to make message delivery more efficient on its Super Network
Twilio has announced in its quarterly earnings report that it has acquired Beepsend, a Sweden-based SMS messaging provider. The startup has been acquired to “enhance the capabilities of the Twi
Twilio’s Jeff Lawson wins the Crunchie for Founder of the Year
The Silicon Valley startup scene gathered in San Francisco tonight to celebrate the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards — and if there’s one kind of person the startup scene lionizes, it’s