Author: Ingrid Lunden

Fundings & Exits Mergers and Acquisitions Pinterest search engine TC

Pinterest acquires Jelly, the crowdsourced Q&A startup from Biz Stone

March 8, 2017
Ingrid Lunden

 Pinterest has made another acquisition that could point to another way that it plans to increase…

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Veem, formerly Align Commerce, gets $24M from GV, others for its Venmo for SMBs

March 8, 2017
Ingrid Lunden

 Remittances — the business of money transfers — is a fragmented and huge market, currently estimated…

Enterprise Finance TC

Kabbage nabs $500M for small business loans

March 8, 2017
Ingrid Lunden

 Kabbage, a billion-dollar startup that combines machine learning algorithms, data from public profiles on the internet…

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Russia says ‘Nyet’, continues LinkedIn block after it refuses to store data in Russia

March 7, 2017
Ingrid Lunden

 Russia’s internet regulator today confirmed that access to social networking site LinkedIn — which has been…

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Europe’s OIP files antitrust complaint against Google focused on apps and Google Play

March 7, 2017
Ingrid Lunden

 While the European Commission continues to work through a stack of antitrust complaints against Google and…

Fundings & Exits Social TC

Giphy quietly acquired imoji to build out its emoji and sticker business

March 7, 2017
Ingrid Lunden

 Last week, GIF-finding platform Giphy revealed a new line of business offering artist-created stickers in Apple’s iMessage…

Cloud Enterprise Fundings & Exits Media Storage TC

Amazon’s AWS buys Thinkbox Software, maker of tools for creative professionals

March 6, 2017
Ingrid Lunden

 It looks like Amazon’s AWS has made another acquisition to add more productivity tools for its customers beyond…

Cloud Enterprise Fundings & Exits identity management Okta Security TC

Okta acquihires Stormpath, doubles down on identity in apps and APIs

March 6, 2017
Ingrid Lunden

 Okta, the $1.2 billion identity management startup for enterprises that some tip for an IPO this…