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.....»»
Opera Now Has a Game Engine To Go With Its Gamer-Focused Browser
Opera has acquired YoYo Games, a British game development platform best known for GameMaker Studio 2, and is launching its Opera Gaming division. Engadget reports: Opera has bought the company for a simple reason: Opera GX. The gamer-focused web brow.....»»
Cannabis marketing startup Fyllo acquires DataOwl
Fyllo has acquired DataOwl, a company offering marketing and loyalty tools for cannabis retailers. Fyllo said it already works with 320 cannabis retailers across 25 states (plus Puerto Rico and Jamaica). According to Chief Marketing Officer Conrad Li.....»»
Wattpad, the storytelling platform, is selling to South Korea’s Naver for $600 million
Wattpad, the 14-year-old, Toronto-based, venture-backed storytelling platform with reach into a number of verticals, is being acquired by Naver, the South Korean conglomerate, in a $600 million cash-and-stock deal. Naver plans to incorporate at least.....»»
Lessons from Top Hat’s acquisition spree
Top Hat, a startup that digitizes textbooks and turns them into an interactive experience for college students, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired yet another business: Fountainhead Press. The acquisition marks Top Hat’s third scoop of a p.....»»
Uber planning to spin out Postmates’ delivery robot arm
Another Uber spinout is in the works. Postmates X, the robotics division of the on-demand delivery startup that Uber acquired last year for $2.65 billion, is seeking investors in its bid to become a separate company, according to several people famil.....»»
Gemini Is Launching a Credit Card With Bitcoin Rewards
Later this year, cryptocurrency exchange company Gemini is planning to launch a credit card that earns bitcoin rewards based on your purchases. It's based on the work done by Blockrize, a fintech startup which Gemini has acquired for an undisclosed s.....»»
iSpot expands its ad measurement platform by acquiring Ace Metrix
iSpot.tv announced today that it has acquired Ace Metrix, a deal that brings two TV and video ad measurement companies together. iSpot founder and CEO Sean Muller said that the companies have complementary solutions. After all, he said, “In si.....»»
Amazon"s Ring Neighbors App Exposed Users" Precise Locations and Home Addresses
A security flaw in Ring's Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app. From a report: Ring, the video doorbell and home security startup acquired by Amazon for $1 billion, launched Neighbors.....»»
Amazon’s Ring Neighbors app exposed users’ precise locations and home addresses
A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app. Ring, the video doorbell and home security startup acquired by Amazon for $1 billion, launched Neighbors in 2018 a.....»»
Venture capitalists react to Visa-Plaid deal meltdown
Most of the takes we received were bullish regarding Plaid's chances now that it's no longer being acquired. Congratulations, you’re no longer selling your company for billions of dollars! As strange as it sounds, that’s the lea.....»»
The Future Of
CES is all about the future. For a week every year, we’re lucky enough to get a glimpse into gadgets and technologies that will reshape the way we live … in a few years. So what does it all add up to? Glad you asked. In The Future Of, we examine.....»»
Weber acquires smart cooking startup June
Outdoor cooking industry leader and famed kettle-grill-maker Weber has acquired June, the smart cooking startup founded in 2013 by Matt Van Horn and Nikhil Bhogal. While financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, Weber has confirmed that Ju.....»»
Snap acquires location data startup StreetCred
Snapchat’s parent company Snap has acquired StreetCred, a New York City startup building a platform for location data. Snap confirmed the news to TechCrunch and said the acquisition will result in four StreetCred team members — including co-f.....»»
NASA extends Juno, turning spacecraft into an Io, Europa, and Ganymede explorer
What's up with all those volcanoes on Io, anyway? Enlarge / NASA’s Juno spacecraft soared directly over Jupiter’s south pole when JunoCam acquired this image on February 2, 2017. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/John Landino) NASA has a.....»»
Discord Bans Pro-Trump Server From Its Platform
Mashable reports: We're all judged by the company we keep. With that adage seemingly in mind, Discord moved Friday to ban a pro-Donald Trump server from its platform. TheDonald, as the server was titled, allowed likeminded individuals to digitally.....»»
Reddit’s largest remaining Trump community banned for “inciting violence” [Updated]
Friday ban comes with clear notice: "Do not post violent content." Discord follows suit. Enlarge / The image currently at the top of r/donaldtrump. (credit: Reddit) On Friday, Reddit joined this week's response to violent online rhetoric as sp.....»»
Quibi might be dead, but its content lives on with acquisition by Roku
There's a small silver lining for the defunct Quibi streaming service. Its content has been acquired by Roku, which will add the shows to its platform for free......»»
Hootsuite Acquires Sparkcentral, Khoros Acquires Topbox and More CX News
Hootsuite acquired customer engagement platform, Sparkcentral to start the New Year with some big acquisition news, that and more in this week's newsbyte. Continue reading........»»
BBVA Says That It Is Shutting Down Banking App Simple, Will Transfer Users To BBVA USA
BBVA today told users of Simple -- the pioneering mobile and online banking app that it acquired for $117 million in 2014 -- that it is planning to shut down the service, moving accounts to BBVA's USA business in the process. TechCrunch reports: The.....»»
Text marketing startup Voxie raises $6.7M
Like many startups, Atlanta-based Voxie was created to solve a problem that founder and CEO Bogdan Constantin faced himself. In Constantin’s case, this was at his previous tuxedo rental startup Menguin (ultimately acquired by Generation Tux),.....»»