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PayIt, a payments platform designed for public services, raises $100M+ from Insight Partners

Posted on: June 30, 2019, in News

Government services, for many, epitomize the worst of bureaucracy: they are, at their low point, large, lumbering organizations working under strained budgets, staffed by lifer employees who don’t get much say in improving things, and lots of paperwork. But as ageing public information infrastructure grinds to a halt and public services start making the switch […]

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Google acquires cloud migration platform Alooma

Posted on: June 27, 2019, in News

Google today announced its intention to acquire Alooma, a company that allows enterprises to combine all of their data sources into services like Google’s BigQuery, Amazon’s Redshift, Snowflake and Azure. The promise of Alooma is that it handles the data pipelines and manages them for its users. In addition to this data integration service, though, Alooma […]

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Fiverr acquires ClearVoice to double down on content marketing

Posted on: June 24, 2019, in News

Fiverr is acquiring ClearVoice, a company that helps customers like Intuit and Carfax find professionals to write promotional content. The two companies seem like a natural fit, as they both operate marketplaces for freelancers. Fiverr covers a much broader swath of freelance work, but CEO Micha Kaufman (pictured above) said the marketplace’s professional writing category […]

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Facebook makes its first browser API contribution

Posted on: June 21, 2019, in News

Facebook today announced that it has made its first major API contribution to Google’s Chrome browser. Together with Google, Facebook’s team created an API proposal to contribute code to the browser, which is a first for the company. The code, like so much of Facebook’s work on web tools and standards, focuses on making the […]

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The new new web

Posted on: June 18, 2019, in News

Over the last five years, almost everything about web development has changed. Oh, the old tech still works, your WordPress and Ruby On Rails sites still function just fine — but they’re increasingly being supplanted by radical new approaches. The contents of your browser are being sliced, diced, rendered, and processed in wholly new ways […]

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Microsoft Azure sets its sights on more analytics workloads

Posted on: June 15, 2019, in News

Enterprises now amass huge amounts of data, both from their own tools and applications, as well as from the SaaS applications they use. For a long time, that data was basically exhaust. Maybe it was stored for a while to fulfill some legal requirements, but then it was discarded. Now, data is what drives machine […]

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Google Docs gets an API for task automation

Posted on: June 12, 2019, in News

Google today announced the general availability of a new API for Google Docs that will allow developers to automate many of the tasks that users typically do manually in the company’s online office suite. The API has been in developer preview since last April’s Google Cloud Next 2018 and is now available to all developers. […]

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Google Assistant Actions up 2.5x in 2018 to reach 4,253 in the US

Posted on: June 9, 2019, in News

In addition to competing for smart speaker market share, Google and Amazon are also competing for developer mindshare in the voice app ecosystem. On this front, Amazon has soared ahead — the number of available voice skills for Alexa devices has grown to top 80,000 the company recently announced. According to a new third-party analysis […]

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Marketing platform startup Adverity raises $12.4M in round led by Felix Capital

Posted on: June 7, 2019, in News

Marketers get a lot of incoming information from the data they have to deal with, bound up in hundreds of spreadsheets and reports, making it time-consuming and tricky to get value out of it. Tech companies like Datorama and Funnel.io have appeared to try to lighten this load. Adverity is a data intelligence platform also […]

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LinkedIn debuts LinkedIn Live, a new live video broadcast service

Posted on: June 3, 2019, in News

LinkedIn — the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users globally — says that video is the fastest-growing format on its platform alongside original written work, shared news and other content. Now it’s taking its next step in the medium in earnest. This week, the company is launching live video, […]

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