Month: June 2021
AWS has acquired encrypted messaging service Wickr
Amazon’s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced that it has acquired secure communications service Wickr — a messaging app that has geared itself towards providing services to government and military groups and enterprises. It claims to be…
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WP Engine ramps up WordPress platform performance with Premier launch WP Engine Premier
Texas-based WordPress technology company WP Engine has launched Premier, an enterprise platform for the site aiming to improve security, performance and scalability for popular sites worldwide. Premier is set to power over 200,000 websites and will incorporate a feature that will allow site owners to scale up or down depending…
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OMG, BuzzFeed is worth 1.5 billion?? WIN
How much is it worth to be shareable? BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti is hoping for about $1.5 billion. BuzzFeed has agreed to go public through an acquisition by 890 Fifth Avenue Partners, a publicly traded company with no purpose except to buy another company. (890 Fifth Avenue Partners is part…
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Microsoft Teams 2.0 is set for some huge changes on Windows 11 Microsoft Teams 2.0 Windows 11
Microsoft Teams is getting a major overhaul for the release of Windows 11, the company has revealed. With the video conferencing service set to play a much more central role in the new software when it rolls out later this year, more details have emerged about what the next generation…
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Kaszek Ventures leads a $15 million round in Chilean asset management startup, Fintual
Like other financial sectors in Latin America, the retail investing space is getting a facelift by local tech startups that are cashing in on the untapped potential for democratizing asset management in the region. One of those startups is Chilean-based Fintual, which today announced a $15 million round led by…
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How to Return and Exchange Your Unwanted Gifts or Purchases
You can’t always get what you want. But there are smarter, more sustainable ways to get cash (or store credit) instead. Source
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