I’m Glad Discord Isn’t Being Acquired
Dear Discord: Please go public and stay independent instead of being acquired. Love, Brad. I’ve become a huge Discord fan and user of the past year. I’ve got many daily reference points from products that I use for real-time communication.....»»
Avant doubles down on digital banking with Zero Financial acquisition
Avant, an online lender that has raised over $600 million in equity, announced today that it has acquired Zero Financial and its neobank brand, Level, to further its mission of becoming a digital bank for the masses. Founded in 2012, Chicago-based Av.....»»
Acorns’ new fintech target is debt management with acquisition of Pillar
Popular saving and investing app Acorns has acquired Pillar, an AI-powered startup built to help manage student loan debt, in its second acquisition of 2021. New York-based Pillar helps consumers optimize their debt payments by focusing first on stud.....»»
Hipmunk’s founders launch Flight Penguin to bring back Hipmunk-style flight search
Hipmunk’s founders are building a successor to their now-defunct flight search service. The startup was acquired by SAP-owned travel and expense platform Concur in 2016, and its CEO Adam Goldstein departed in 2018. But Goldstein told me he and.....»»
Fortnite users can now livestream gameplay to Houseparty’s social video app
Houseparty, the social video app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games in 2019, has just announced a major new step in terms of integrating these two properties: the company says it will now allow gamers to livestream their Fortnite gameplay directly.....»»
Knotel co-founder leaves company, describes investor Newmark as ‘a stalking horse’
Earlier this year, we covered the demise of flexible workspace operator Knotel. The once high-flying startup had just announced it had filed for bankruptcy and that its assets were being acquired by investor and commercial real estate brokerage Newma.....»»
Byju’s acquires Indian tutor Aakash for nearly $1 billion
Why did Byju’s raise over $1 billion last year and is already inching closer to securing another half a billion dollars? We are getting some answers today. Byju’s said on Monday it has acquired Aakash Educational, a 33-year-old chain of physical.....»»
Yark Automotive buys Ohio Ford store
The group has acquired Kistler Ford in Toledo and changed the store's name to Yark Ford......»»
Discord is launching new Clubhouse-like channels for audio events
Everyone is scrambling to build a Clubhouse clone right now, but for Discord it makes perfect sense. With everyone stuck at home searching for safe ways to rekindle their social lives over the last year, Discord’s appeal exploded. The company c.....»»
Unsplash is Being Acquired by Getty Images
Unsplash has announced that as of today it is being acquired by Getty Images. From a report: In a blog post, Unsplash's founder Mikael Cho says that it will continue to operate as a standalone brand inside of Getty and that the free content model won.....»»
Duo Goes Passwordless
Duo, the authentication service Cisco acquired for $2.35 billion in 2018, today announced its plans to launch a passwordless authentication service that will allow users to log in to their Duo-protected services through security keys or platform biom.....»»
Amazon acquires Indian retail startup Perpule
Amazon has acquired a startup in India that is helping offline stores go online, the e-commerce group’s latest attempt to make inroads in the world’s second most populous nation where brick and mortar continue to drive more than 95% of sales. The.....»»
Duo goes passwordless
Duo, the authentication service Cisco acquired for $2.35 billion in 2018, today announced its plans to launch a passwordless authentication service that will allow users to log in to their Duo-protected services through security keys or platform biom.....»»
Spotify Jumps Into Social Audio, Acquires Sports-Focused Live Audio App
Spotify said Tuesday it has acquired the company behind the live audio app Locker Room, giving the music and podcast platform a new foothold in a space that has seen a surge of interest following the rise of the app Clubhouse. From a report: The comp.....»»
Optimizely Acquires CDP Zaius, Acquia Updates Open DXP and More DCX News
Optimizely has acquired a CDP, and Acquia updates its DXP, plus more digital marketing and customer experience software news. Continue reading........»»
Acquisition-happy space infrastructure company Redwire set to go public via SPAC
The latest in a string of space tech SPACs announced this year is Redwire, an entity created by a PE firm in 2020, which has acquired a number of smaller companies including Adcole Space, Roccor, Made in Space, LoadPath, Oakman Aerospace, Deployable.....»»
Microsoft in Talks To Buy Discord for More Than $10 Billion
Microsoft is in talks to acquire Discord, a video-game chat community, for more than $10 billion, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: Discord has been talking to potential buyers and software giant Microsoft is.....»»
Discord’s reported $10B exit; Compass and Intermedia Cloud Communications set IPO price ranges
There's a lot of news this morning, so let's discuss all the big dollars before YC demo day kicks off. It’s demo day for the current Y Combinator class, so we’ll have a largely early-stage focus at TechCrunch today. But there.....»»
Report: Microsoft in talks for $10 billion acquisition of Discord
Gaming-focused chat service has 140 million users across 6.7 million servers. Enlarge Microsoft is reportedly in the late stages of $10 billion acquisition talks with Discord, a gaming-focused community chat platform, according to unnamed "pe.....»»
Microsoft reportedly in talks to acquire Discord for over $10 billion
Microsoft and Discord are said to be discussing an acquisition deal worth over $10 billion, according to Bloomberg, which notes that the video-chat platform has been recently reaching out to potential buyers and software giants, with Microsoft Xbox c.....»»
Hopin buys two more companies as it triples down on video focus
Hopin, a unicorn best known for its online events-hosting service, announced this morning that it has acquired two more companies. The smaller concerns, Jamm and Streamable, were acquired in deals that Hopin declined to detail. However, in an email t.....»»