Cloudability, a cloud service that helps companies manage and optimize their cloud spending, announced today that it was buying DataHero, a cloud service that helps non-technical users generate data visualization. It’s the fourth small startup Cloudability has bought since last March as the company uses its wallet to add engineering talent and build its customer base. It did not… Read More
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Xfers, a startup that wants to simplify bank transfers, announced today that it has raised a $2.5 million seed round. Based in Singapore, Xfers plans to use the funding to expand into Indonesia during the first quarter of this year before tackling other markets in Southeast Asia. The Y Combinator alum will also continue building its technology platform, which can be integrated with many… Read More
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Oracle continues to ramp up its business in the area of marketing tech. Today the enterprise software giant announced that it has acquired AddThis, which makes sharing features (ie, those buttons on web pages that let you share stories or follow accounts on Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and audience tracking technology for online publishers and marketers. AddThis says it currently… Read More
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We’re only in the first week of January, but already Southeast Asia has seen its first merger of significance. Female-focused e-commerce players Moxy, which is present in Thailand and Indonesia, and Bilna, an Indonesian startup from ex-Groupon Indonesia founders, have joined forces. Read More
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Cuvva, a burgeoning startup based in Scotland, is solving a problem that I didn’t know existed: the need to insure a car for as little as an hour. Read More
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Snapcart, an Indonesia-based startup that runs a service offering consumers rewards in exchange for scans of their shopping receipts, has closed $1.675 million in funding just four months after launch. Read More
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At the end of November, Google announced it was buying bebop, a cloud platform startup founded by former VMware CEO and co-founder Diane Greene. Today, the company filed paperwork with the SEC revealing the purchase price: $380,241,352 to be precise. The move was believed to be as much about bringing in Greene to lead its enterprise cloud effort as the bebop technology itself. Little is… Read More
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Some consolidation in the world of gaming and specifically e-sports. Today Activision Blizzard confirmed that it has acquired Major League Gaming, a specialist in live gaming events as it vies to become the “ESPN of e-sports.” The news follows reports over the weekend that Activision would be buying MLG for $46 million and shuttering the business. In the event, Activision is… Read More
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Intel has made yet another hardware acquisition to build up its business of integrating its processors and RealSense imaging technology into the next wave of connected devices beyond PCs. Today the company announced it has purchased Ascending Technologies, a Germany-based startup that makes small drones and the software used to fly them. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed… Read More
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It was a few months back that rumours began to circulate within the European — and specifically Berlin — startup community that ex-Early Bird VCs Ciarán O’Leary and Jason Whittier were raising a fund of their own. Well today that news comes to surface with the new firm, dubbed BlueYard Capital, getting an official, albeit modest, outing via a blog post written by O’Leary. Read More
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