Business related notes.
ContentStack, which claims to have invented “Headless CMS”, raised $31.5m in a Series A funding.
Contentstack, the tech startup that powers omnichannel content, digital experiences and personalized customer journeys, has raised $31.5 million in Series A funding to scale sales and marketing to reach more industries and geographies, as well as to build out the partner ecosystem […]
Source: Contentstack raises $31.5 million in Series A funding | Startups News | Tech News
This Friday, Gizmodo accused Facebook of suppressing stories they published on their platform. The evidence is based on staff observations, including Family and Friends. All together, the allegations don’t appear to be very reliable, yet imaginable. Facebook acts weird all too often, and in this case Gizmodo claims the case was about news over Mark Zuckerberg, the companies CEO.
On Friday, Gizmodo uncovered shocking new evidence that Facebook is using its platform to suppress stories about CEO Mark Zuckerberg… or maybe his janky, busted-ass website is just bugging out again for no reason. It’s hard to say, really. That’s sort of the problem.
Gizmodo, Friday Oct. 4, 2019
Unrelated to these new findings, Facebook has plenty of other issues, that should make them a company not to work with. The incident, and the pure possibility such a case of influence is possible, is another indicator to why society develops fear over Big Tech. The answer once more may be another call to #deleteFacebook, however, as long as Facebook has the reach and the attention, this won’t change.
Source: What We ‘Know’ About Facebook
Forever 21 Inc. filed for bankruptcy, joining the growing list of fashion retailers felled by heavy competition, high rents and the defection of shoppers to online outlets.
— Weiterlesen www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-30/forever-21-files-for-bankruptcy-adding-to-the-retail-apocalypse
Amazon released some smart glasses. The Echo Frames. Businessinsider Analysts Peter and Ayoub share. And while at lease one is concerned with security, I’m wondering why none refers to what happend to Googles approach to smart glasses.
INTL offers solutions for importing. Numbers of the deal were not disclosed.
We, the company behind WeWork, went from unicorn to distressed asset in less than 30 days. Prof Scott Galloway, who made some news by suggesting Amazon, Apple, Facebook, And Google to be broken up, shares his thought on the event on his blog.
Automattic, the company behind both the popular WordPress Software and Service, that owns Tumblr as of recently, closed a $300 million Series D today. Matt Mullenweg, founder and CEO of Automattic, shares a few thoughts on the near future on his blog.
Github acquired Semmle, a service to scan code for vulnerabilities with a semantic code analysis engine. According to The Next Web, no financial details have been disclosed.
Github Blog”Welcoming Semmle to Github“
The acquisition happened only one day after Github became a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)
Bill Gates reveals the one thing his tech ‘rival,’ the late Steve Jobs, was always better at — enthralling an audience
Via Business Insider.
In 2015, it was big news to the Startup and VC scene, when Microsoft announced it would acquire Wunderlist. Back then, 6Wunderkinder was one of the most promising StartUps in the German Capital. The social media bubble immediately started debating the future of the product and whether Microsoft would spoil it or even shut it down.
The recent past showed all fears held true when Microsoft announced the shutdown of Wunderlist in favour of a “To-Do” app, to the disappointment of it’s entire user base.
Now, another two years later, Christian Reber, CEO and Founder of 6 Wunderkinder, announced his plans to buy back the core application from Microsoft. VentureBeat has more