IT総合 Meta confirms 11,000 layoffs, amounting to 13% of its workforce
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp’s parent company Meta has confirmed a huge round of layoffs, amounting to 13% of...
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IT総合 IT総合 Next acquires Made.com’s brand and IP as the online furniture retailer enters administration
We knew it was happening, but U.K.-based online furniture and home accessories retailer Made.com has officially entered ...
IT総合 Beekeeper, which helps companies engage with their ‘deskless’ frontline workforce, raises $50M
Beekeeper, a platform for businesses to engage with frontline workers, has raised $50 million in a Series C round of fun...
IT総合 Unity and IronSource’s $4.4B merger is now complete
Unity‘s proposed merger with IronSource has formally concluded, with the two companies coming together to create a...
IT総合 Meet Budibase, a low-code open-source web app builder with automations
While there are differing perspectives on the degree to which no-code and low-code development tools could eventually su...
IT総合 FlowForge nabs $7.2M to help companies integrate IoT using Node-RED
A new company from one of the original creators of the open source Node-RED project is setting out to make it easier for...
IT総合 Stripe cuts 14% of its workforce, CEO says they ‘overhired for the world we’re in’
Stripe has announced that it’s laying off 14% of its workers, impacting around 1,120 of the fintech giant’s ...
IT総合 Dropit picks up $25M to digitize brick-and-mortar stores and unify inventories
Dropit, a retail technology platform that bridges the digital divide by unifying merchants’ online and in-store in...
IT総合 Meta to ditch human-curated Facebook News stories globally
Some three years after first introducing a curated news section for publishers, Meta has confirmed that it’s ditch...
IT総合 Mozilla launches $35M venture capital fund for early-stage ‘responsible’ startups
It seems that every internet company and their dog have at least one venture capital (VC) arm under their wing, with the...
IT総合 Cinven snaps up tax preparation software provider TaxAct for $720M
London-based private equity firm Cinven has announced plans to acquire online tax preparation software provider TaxAct i...
IT総合 16 months after its IPO, UK online retailer Made.com prepares for administration
Made.com, a U.K.-based ecommerce company that sells furniture and related home accessories across seven European markets...
IT総合 Meet Crowd.dev, an open source user-led growth platform for fostering developer communities
Community-led growth (CLG) has emerged as a popular mechanism for driving business, as companies strive to foster an eco...
IT総合 How Zette plans to let people access paywalled news with a single monthly subscription
A new startup wants to help online media outlets make money by making it easier for consumers to access paywalled conten...
IT総合 Podcast app Pocket Casts goes open source
Popular podcast platform Pocket Casts has released its mobile clients under an open source license.
WordPress parent com...
IT総合 Pillar of the community: How Talkbase plans to power user-led growth for any company
A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to sid...
IT総合 Ambr wants to solve the billion-dollar burnout problem by tracking employees’ working habits
Worker burnout is real. Reports suggest that work-related chronic stress could be costing businesses up to $190 billion ...
IT総合 Sensat raises $20.5M to build digital twins for infrastructure companies
Sensat, a platform that helps physical infrastructure companies map and visualize all their data, has raised $20.5 milli...
IT総合 Theneo wants to bring Stripe-like API documentation to all developers
A new company is taking a leaf out of Stripe’s API playbook with a platform that makes it easy for any company to ...
IT総合 Videos on tap: Vitag launches NFC-powered ‘sticky notes’ for visual instructions
While QR codes emerged as something of a technology poster-child during the pandemic, garnering a new lease of life in e...
IT総合 Zen Educate, a marketplace that matches schools with teachers, raises $21M to fuel U.S. expansion
Zen Educate, an online marketplace that algorithmically matches schools with the best available teachers, has raised £19...
IT総合 Katana, an ERP for SMB manufacturers, raises $34M
Katana, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform for small- and medium-sized manufacturers, has raised €35 million...
IT総合 After selling his last startup to Google, this founder now wants to automate mundane tasks with Relay
Some seven years after selling his previous company to Google, Jacob Bank is preparing to launch his next project, this ...
IT総合 NocoDB takes on Airtable with open source no-code platform that connects to production databases
A new company is setting out to challenge Airtable, the 10-year-old company recently valued at a whopping $11 billion, w...
IT総合 Samsung seeks smart TV growth with first Tizen OS licensing deals
Samsung has confirmed the first third-party smart TV makers to ship with its Tizen operating system (OS), with several m...
IT総合 UK to probe Inmarsat and Viasat’s $7.3B merger on competition grounds, says it could lead to pricier in-flight Wi-FI
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced that the proposed merger between London-based sat...
IT総合 Lightdash takes on Looker with an open source BI platform built for dbt
Lightdash, an open source business intelligence (BI) platform that’s setting out to challenge proprietary incumben...
IT総合 Founded by Google’s former head of ads, Neeva brings its ad-free search engine to Europe
Neeva, an ad-free search engine launched last year by a former engineer and executive best known for spearheading Google...
IT総合 Whistleblow while you work: This startup wants to make it easier to report corporate wrongdoings
From Edward Snowden’s government surveillance revelations through the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica data harves...
IT総合 Lemonade leans on Aviva to bring its next-gen insurance platform to the UK
New York-based insurance giant Lemonade is officially launching in the U.K., its fourth market in Europe and fifth overa...