Profile of WWT, which helps clients including the US federal government procure and install IT equipment; the company reported revenue of $11.2B last year — Jim Kavanaugh climbs into a sleek, black-leather-interior Mercedes bus that whisks him away from his company's new headquarters in St. Louis to a squat, one-story outpost nearby.
Backbone, which provides product lifecycle management SaaS for consumer goods companies, raises $10M Series A extension, closing the round with a total of $18M — Boulder, Colo.-based Backbone, a SaaS company that helps direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands get products to market, has raised $10 million as part of an ongoing Series A round.
Cisco to acquire Voicea, the maker of a voice assistant called Eva for business meetings; Voicea had raised $20M from investors including GV and Salesforce — Cisco Systems Inc. today announced that it's bolstering its family of collaboration products with the acquisition of Voicea …
Swiss startup DeepCode raises $4M seed to expand its AI-powered system for code reviews that is mostly trained using data from open source GitHub repositories — We're fast approaching a point where every company is effectively a software company, a notion proffered by some of tech's top people such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Telegram releases new features including sending messages without notification sound, a “slow mode” that restricts group members from messaging too often, more — The previous update brought more movement to Telegram - this one brings more peace of mind.
Jollychic, a Chinese ecommerce platform focused on the Middle East, raises $65M Series C2; a Series C round a year ago valued the startup at $1B+ — Jollychic, a Chinese cross-border ecommerce platform focused on the Middle East has recently closed it's Series C+ (Series C-2) round …
The fintech company TastyTrade invests $20M in its new subsidiary Dough, a Robinhood-like no fee stock trading service with a $1 per month subscription — The new Chicago fintech firm, which will be a TastyTrade subsidiary, aims to take on Robinhood in wielding the smartphone to trade stocks.
Sydney-based Fluent Commerce, which provides cloud-based order management software for retail clients like Target in 11 markets globally, raises $22.4M Series B — Retail startup Fluent Commerce has secured a whopping $33 million in Series B funding, led by US growth equity firm Arrowroot Capital.
Nike buys Celect, an AI startup focused on predicting what customers want, allowing better inventory management; Celect had raised over $30M from investors — Nike's market cap has swollen past $100 billion, but the shoe company still sees potential to learn more about what customers …
Billy Perrigo / Time : An in-depth look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers test AI systems for risks and for capabili...
