E-commerce these days is now a major part of every retailer’s strategy, so technology builders and…
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Billogram, provider of a payments platform specifically for recurring billing, raises $45M
Payments made a huge shift to digital platforms during the Covid-19 pandemic — purchasing moved online…
Microsoft acquires TakeLessons, an online and in-person tutoring platform, to ramp up its edtech play
Microsoft said in January this year that Teams, its online collaboration platform, was being used by…
Jim Lanzone breaks up with Tinder, swipes right to take the CEO job at Yahoo, Renate Nyborg takes Tinder CEO role
Ten days after Apollo Global completed its acquisition of Yahoo (formerly Verizon Media) from Verizon for…
LinkedIn doubles down on development with new learning hub, free courses and new search fields for hybrid working
The wider world of employment has seen a huge shift in the wake of the Covid-19…
Scalapay raises $155M at a $700M valuation as buy-now, pay-later services continue to boom
Scalapay, a buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) technology provider that has made significant headway with retailers and consumers…
Nuula raises $120M to build out a financial services ‘superapp’ aimed at SMBs
A Canadian startup called Nuula that is aiming to build a superapp to provide a range…
Real-time database platform SingleStore raises $80M more, now at a $940M valuation
Organizations are swimming in data these days, and so solutions to help manage and use that…
UK’s Marshmallow raises $85M on a $1.25B valuation for its more inclusive, big-data take on car insurance
Marshmallow — a U.K.-based car insurance provider that has made a name for itself in the…
Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence Covid-19 variants and other complex data problems
Bringing order and understanding to unstructured information located across disparate silos has been one of more…