Evernote, the productivity app with 225 million users that lets people take notes and organise other…
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To boost Amazon Pay in India, Amazon reportedly acquired Tapzo, an ‘all-in-one’ aggregator app, for $40M
On the heels of Google rebranding Tez to Google Pay in India, and Walmart acquiring a…
Amazon is quietly doubling down on cryptographic security
The growth of cloud services — with on-demand access to IT services over the Internet —…
Mapbox CEO says the map calling New York City ‘Jewtropolis’ has been 100% fixed, was ‘human vandalism’
Mapbox, the mapping startup that competes with the likes of Google Maps and Here to power…
Paystack, with ambitions to become the Stripe of Africa, raises $8M from Visa, Tencent… and Stripe itself
Africa has been one of the least-developed regions globally when it comes to technology and being…
Germany’s Homelike, an Airbnb-like service focused on longer-term rentals, raises $14M led by Spark
The success of Airbnb has created a major disruption in how people choose where to stay…
UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn proposes a publicly-funded alternative to Facebook
How best to counteract the Facebook effect in political and other discourse? Consider a plan to…
Adyen charges ahead in its first earnings as a public company, with H1 revenues up 67% to $298M
After Adyen’s huge debut on the public markets in June that saw the stock go up 92…
After reportedly rejecting $400M Kroger offer, Boxed raises $111M to take on Costco in bulk shopping
The average US household with children spent nearly $170 per week on groceries in 2017, and…
Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7.1B
Slack, the workplace communications platform, has taken off like a rocket since launching in 2013 and…