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.....»»
Handy co-founder Oisin Hanrahan is taking over as CEO of ANGI Homeservices
A little over two years after ANGI Homeservices acquired his startup Handy, Oisin Hanrahan is becoming CEO of the combined organization and joining its board of directors. ANGI is a publicly traded subsidiary of IAC, formed from the merger of Angie&#.....»»
Canva acquires background removal specialists Kaleido
Kaleido, makers of a drag-and-drop background removal service for images and video, have been acquired by up and coming digital design platform Canva. While the price and terms are not disclosed, it is speculated that this young company may have fetc.....»»
Rokk3r acquires AdMobilize and Matrix Labs for $19.5M
Miami-based AdMobilize and its spin-off, Matrix Labs, announced this morning that they are being acquired for $19.5 million. The buyer is Rokk3r, a Miami-based holding company that invests in creating, acquiring and integrating companies. AdMobilize.....»»
Lucid Motors agrees to go public with $24 billion valuation
The deal will generate about $4.4 billion in cash for the 14-year-old company, which plans to use the newly acquired funds to bring vehicles to market and expand its factory in Arizona......»»
Miami edtech startup Nearpod acquired by Renaissance
Nearpod, the Miami-based edtech company, is being acquired by Renaissance Holding Corp., a group that develops education technology. While Nearpod isn’t announcing the news until later this month, the information leaked to Yahoo! Finance yesterday,.....»»
Acast acquires podcasting startup RadioPublic
Podcast advertising company Acast is announcing that it has acquired RadioPublic, the startup that spun out of public radio marketplace PRX in 2016. At first, RadioPublic’s main product was a mobile app for podcast listening, and it still suppo.....»»
Dixa acquires Elevio, the ‘knowledge management’ platform helping brands improve customer support
Dixa, the Danish customer support platform promising more personalised customer support, has acquired Melbourne-based “knowledge management” SaaS Elevio to bolster its product and technology offerings. The deal is said to be worth around.....»»
Jet co-founder Nate Faust is building a more sustainable e-commerce experience with Olive
Nate Faust has spent years in the e-commerce business — he was a vice president at Quidsi (which ran Diapers.com and Soap.com), co-founder and COO at Jet (acquired by Walmart for $3.3 billion) and then a vice president at Walmart. Over time, he sai.....»»
Atlassian launches a whole new Trello
Trello, the Kanban board-centric project management tool acquired by Atlassian in 2017, today launched what is likely one of its most important updates in recent years. With significantly more than 50 million users, Trello is one of the most popular.....»»
Sources: Palo Alto Networks acquired DevOps security startup Bridgecrew for around $200M
The pandemic and the world’s big shift to doing (even) more online has put an unprecedented amount of pressure on cybersecurity. Now, it looks like one of the big public players in that space, Palo Alto Networks, has made an acquisition.....»»
Private equity firm Marlin snatches up e-commerce optimization platform Lengow
French startup Lengow has a new landlord as Marlin Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in the company. Lengow operates a software-as-a-service platform to optimize e-commerce listings. Terms of the deal are undisclosed. In particular, many.....»»
Hilliary Communications Acquires Prairieburg Telephone Co.
Hilliary Communications Acquires Prairieburg Telephone Co. LAWTON, Okla. (Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021) — Hilliary Communications LLC announced Tuesday that it has acquired Prairieburg Telephone Co., a rural telephone company providing service to residen.....»»
Netflix acquires the rights to all 22 Redwall books, plans film and series
The film will be written by Over the Garden Wall's Patrick McHale. Enlarge / The book cover for the first book in the series, Redwall. (credit: Penguin Random House) Netflix has acquired the rights to all 22 books in Brian Jacques' fantasy ser.....»»
Encrypted data handling startup DataFleets acquired by LiveRamp for over $68M
LiveRamp has acquired DataFleets, a fresh young startup that made it possible to take advantage of large volumes of encrypted data without the risk or fuss of decrypting or transferring it. LiveRamp, an enterprise data connectivity platform itself, p.....»»
Daily Crunch: DoorDash acquires Chowbotics
DoorDash acquires a salad-making robotics startup, Twitter confirms subscription plans and Tesla makes a big bet on bitcoin. This is your Daily Crunch for February 8, 2021. The big story: DoorDash acquires Chowbotics DoorDash has acquired the Bay Are.....»»
Tesla Buys $1.5 Billion Worth of Bitcoin, May Accept the Cryptocurrency as Payment in the Future
Today in an SEC filing, Tesla disclosed that it has acquired $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin, the popular cryptocurrency. Moreover, the company noted that it may also accept bitcoin in the future as a form of payment for its cars, though it did allow t.....»»
Amid Bickering Over Movie Rights, Reddit Removes Top "WallStreetBets" Moderators
The New York Times reports: Late on Wednesday, a moderator of the popular Reddit message board WallStreetBets posted several screenshots on the chat app Discord. They showed that other moderators had quietly started talking among themselves about lan.....»»
A look at how proptech startup Knotel went from a $1.6B valuation to filing for bankruptcy
This week, flexible workspace operator (and one-time unicorn) Knotel announced it had filed for bankruptcy and that its assets were being acquired by investor and commercial real estate brokerage Newmark for a reported $70 million. Knotel designed, b.....»»
Morrie"s acquires 6 Wis. dealerships
Morrie's Auto Group acquired the dealerships from Brenengen Auto Group. The deal brings Morrie's footprint to 20 rooftops in Minnesota and Wisconsin......»»
Google Cloud launches Apigee X, the next generation of its API management platform
Google today announced the launch of Apigee X, the next major release of the Apgiee API management platform it acquired back in 2016. “If you look at what’s happening — especially after the pandemic started in March last year —.....»»