Ontario, Canada-based tech giant IBM is acquiring California, US-based bootstrapped file transfer firm Aspera to provide its clients with a file transfer tool for data from social media and various devices.
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Google's reliability team was on Reddit's AMA when Gmail went down
In a funny coincidence, four engineers from Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team were on Reddit's Ask Me Anything (AMA) thread right before Gmail and other Google services experienced a worldwide outage.
Gmail and Google+ hit with widespread outage
Google just got hit with an outage that brought down Gmail, Google Plus, Google Voice, Hangouts, and other services which lasted for around 20 minutes and got resolved by 12:23 PM Pacific Time.
US mail startup Outbox shuts down mail digitizing service
San Francisco, US-based mail startup Outbox is shutting down its mail digitizing service because of low count of paying customers signing up for it, and will instead focus on a new yet-undisclosed product.
California-based Nexmo nabs $18M in Series C funding round led by Sorenson Capital
Nexmo, the company that provides messaging and voice capabilities to app developers and enterprises globally, was able to secure $18 million for its Series C funding round.
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Moped, a messaging platform startup, had been acquired by local cloud-based software startup 6Wunderkinder, according to the former's announcement on its website. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
In a note to its users via its Help page, the team at Yahoo Inc said its Mail service is now back for most of the users, and is working to restore its IMAP access to achieve full functionality of the free Web service.
The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Wednesday, including Fortum, National Vision, Saipem, CTT, MTS, Southern Pacific, Warrnambool, Verbund, Bakkafrost, Popular and Marathon Oil.
Snapchat, the mobile photo-sharing service beloved by teenagers and twenty-somethings, has raised another $50 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing made Wednesday.
The Luxembourg-based General Court declared on Wednesday that Cisco's antitrust concerns regarding Microsoft Corp's takeover of the largest Internet video and voice messaging provider Skype was unfounded.
US-based messaging app Snapchat is raising another USD55 million just six month after it raised USD60 million in its Series B round, pushing the app's valuation to around USD2 billion.
Wire Labs, a company founded by two former Amazon engineers, raised USD 1.8 million in its seed funding round for their mobile messaging application Wire.
California-based private messaging app Wickr had redesigned and is in the middle of a USD7.4 million fundraising, according to a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today.
Branded mobile content company TextPride secured USD1 million in seed funding which will be used to launch the company's mobile stickers and emojis to mobile messaging apps.
