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July 6, 2018
Booksy, a Poland-based booking application for the beauty business, has raised $13.2 million in a Series B effort to drive global growth. The company, founded in 2014 by…
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MeetFrank, aka a ‘secret’ recruitment app that uses machine learning plus a chatbot wrapper to take the strain out of passive job hunting and talent-to-vacancy matching, has closed…
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After years of teasing, Original Stitch has officially launched their Bodygram service and will be rolling it out this summer. The system can scan your body based on…
Read articleJune 29, 2018
I’m not sure if you’re aware, but the launch of Apple Maps went poorly. After a rough first impression, an apology from the CEO, several years of patching…
Read articleJune 28, 2018
Regardless of what you may think of Facebook as a platform, they run a massive operation, and when you reach their level of scale you have to get…
Read articleJune 11, 2018
In a DevOps world, the operations part of the equation needs to be on call to deal with issues as they come up 24/7. We used to use…
Read articleJune 11, 2018
Workday, the cloud-based platform that offers HR and other back-office apps for businesses, is making an acquisition to expand its portfolio of services: It’s buying Adaptive Insights, a…
Read articleJune 8, 2018
Sometimes you acquire a company for the assets and sometimes you do it for the talent. Today Workday announced it was buying Rallyteam, a San Francisco startup that…
Read articleMay 17, 2018
An IoT-enabled lab for cannabis farmers, a system for catching drones mid-flight and the Internet of Cows are a few of the 17 startups exhibiting today at Alchemist…
Read articleMay 8, 2018
Gamalon wants to change the game when it comes to understanding text-based customer communications. Instead of using neural networks to learn about a vast corpus of information, the…
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