Spotify strikes new deal with indy giant Merlin, ‘competitive’ with big 3 labels

 Spotify — the streaming music company with 50 million paying users — has been working on renegotiating…

Report: Microsoft may buy cloud monitoring startup Cloudyn for $50-70M

 The consolidation of smaller cloud services through acquisitions by larger could platforms has been a running theme in…

Sapho gets $14M more to make legacy software more useful with ‘micro apps’

 In recent years, Microsoft, Facebook and Slack (and many more) have all built new productivity platforms…

Crunchbase raises $18M, debuts Enterprise business intelligence, plans ‘Marketplace’ for 3rd party data

 Crunchbase — the database spun out from TechCrunch that charts startups, other tech companies, the people who…

GV’s Tom Hulme on AI, life sciences, and the Alphabet VC’s future in Europe

 GV — the VC owned by Google’s Alphabet and formerly known as Google Ventures — has…

SpyBiotech, which makes a ‘superglue’ for vaccines, raises £4M from GV and Oxford

 The startup bug has hit the world of biotechnology, and the latest victim is a business…

Report: Free trials push Apple Music ahead of Pandora and Spotify on mobile usage

 Spotify may be the reigning leader when it comes to the largest number of paid subscribers…

AWS takes on Zendesk with Amazon Connect, productizes Amazon’s in-house contact center software

 AWS continues to add yet more software and services to build out its revenues and touchpoints…