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Publicly traded data integration company Informatica today announced that it has officially sold itself to the Permira funds and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in a deal valued at $5.3 billion. The plan was announced earlier this year. Microsoft and Salesforce Ventures are now strategic investors in the company, according to a statement on the […]... →

We continue featuring some of IMN leads we’d like to publicly respond to in order to educate our community a bit. Please watch our previous video in the “weird leads series”: “Acquire 300-400 Good-Quality Links” Here’s another one: The Lead: Hi, I am looking for a company that specializes in achieving Top Website rankings with guarantees. I am looking for a definitive strategy to achieve a PR7 (or better) and... [Read More...] The post Guaranteed Rankings + PR7 Links: From Our “Weird Leads” Series @ Jim & A... →

EXCLUSIVE: Platfora, a startup with software for cleaning up, analyzing, and visualizing data stored in the Hadoop open-source big data software, is switching chief executives. Founder Ben Werther is stepping down after four years and becoming executive chairman. Jason Zintak, a SAP veteran who came on board in June as president and chief operating officer, is […]... →

Healthy food delivery startup Sprig just became the latest on-demand startup to decide to classify its workers as employees instead of independent contractors. That means Sprig will soon offer its hundreds of contract workers employment at the company. Over the past few months, startups like Instacart, Shyp and Luxe have all switched their workers to W-2 employees rather than independent… Read More... →

HR-компания Hays совместно с агентством Comunicа опубликовали результаты исследования рынка digital-специалистов в России в 2015 году.... →

Rebagg, an online resell marketplace for designer handbags, has closed on $4 million in seed from General Catalyst, Metamorphic Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Founder Collective, Big Sur Ventures-Necotium and FJ Labs. There’s no shortage of second-hand markets for handbags and other items. Great finds can be snatched up in local brick and mortar consignment shops or online sites like… Read More... →

On-demand food provider Sprig is undergoing a bit of a transformation today. The company is not only becoming more transparent about where it sources ingredients from, it is also reshaping its workforce by transitioning servers from contractors to employees. It’s not surprising that the market for food delivery is getting somewhat saturated. In large U.S. […]... →

Twitter has introduced two new offerings for advertisers to hopefully get the most bang for their marketing dollars. Starting today, brands can pay for their mobile app install campaigns through two additional offerings: optimized action bidding and cost per install bidding. What’s significant about this is that bidding is done on the number of installs, […]... →

Google today announced that its Cloud Deployment Manager service is now available for anyone to use on the Google Cloud Platform. It’s a managed service — no need to install it atop the Google cloud — that operations people can use to automate the process of setting up cloud infrastructure for applications to run on. […]... →

IBM announced a huge deal today, agreeing to pay a billion dollars for Merge Healthcare, a medical imaging company it plans to fold into the Watson Health unit. Merge’s technology is in use in 7500 healthcare facilities in the US, according to information supplied by IBM. The firm processes millions of images such as x-rays, MRIs and CT scans with 30 billion images processed to-date,… Read More... →

Tesla is coming off of a rough earnings day, but that didn’t stop the company from showing off some awesome stuff. Today, the company tweeted out a demo of something its founder and CEO Elon Musk has talked about before. At the time it sounded crazy, as most of Musk’s ideas do. In fact, see my response to it back in December: @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/T6WXHyQ4L4 — drew… Read More... →

Microsoft Outlook is now a fully-featured Apple Watch app. An updated version of the iOS application released today added the new smartwatch functionality, which includes the ability to quickly glance at your inbox from the Apple Watch face, access pre-written replies, emoji and voice dictation, get custom notifications, schedule items for later, and more. The iOS and Android versions of… Read More... →

Google вслед за Mozilla отключит автовоспроизведение Flash-элементов в браузере Chrome с 1 сентября 2015 года. Об этом ЦП сообщили два источника на рекламном рынке, пожелавшие остаться неизвестными.... →

VB WEBINAR: Join VentureBeat on Thursday, August 6th at 12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET/ 19:00 GMT for a special Twitter Chat with VentureBeat Insight analyst Stewart Rogers. We’ll be chatting about the state of marketing technology in regard to personalization — whether it’s through personalized messaging, app experiences or serving up ad content. In addition to Stewart, […]... →

To help you make more money for your image-only ad units, we previously launched the magazine ad format . Today, we're happy to introduce richer text ads, a new ad format that automatically creates image ads from text ads. The new richer text ads compete both for your text and display, and display-only ad units and could increase your earnings even more. This new ad format, inspired by material design ,... →

Femsplain bills itself as a “community-driven publisher,” and it’s looking to build that community with a new initiative called Femsplain Beta. The feminist site was launched last year, raised more than $30,000 via Kickstarter (I was a backer) and has already published personal articles from more than 250 female contributors. Those stories cover topics like cancer, kids… Read More... →

Yesterday on Tesla’s earnings call, Adam Jonas, an analyst from Morgan Stanley, asked Elon Musk about the company’s future plans to either sell cars to Uber (prompted by Travis Kalanick’s recent remarks), or develop their own autonomous transportation company. Musk’s response? Silence. As we all know, sometimes silence says a lot. Read More... →

Microsoft today launched and updating many of its apps for wearables. The biggest releases are of course the new apps: Outlook for Apple Watch, OneNote for Android Wear, and Microsoft Translator for both Apple Watch and Android Wear. More to follow More information: Powered by VBProfiles... →

“We’re in a unique, extremely unsexy industry,” explained James Steinberg, who founded Shotput with fellow Northeastern University graduate Praful Mathur around 18 months ago. Part of Y Combinator’s summer 2015 class, Shotput provides an end-to-end product delivery and fulfillment suite to customers. Started as a response to the frustration the cofounders experienced… Read More... →

Dinner Lab, a membership-based club that gives you access to private dinner parties in unique locations throughout your city, announced it is has raised a $7 million Series A led by James River Capital. The company also received follow-up funding from all current investors, including Dr. John B. Elstrott, the Chairman of the Board of Whole Foods. This latest round comes about a year… Read More... →