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Advocating reform, activist investor Elliott Management takes a $2.5B stake in SoftBank
The activist investment firm Elliott Management has steadily amassed a $2.5 billion stake in the headline-grabbing, Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank even as a series of missteps battered the company’s share price. Famous for its investments in companies like Slack and Uber and infamous for betting billions on the co-working real…
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Microsoft Teams has been down this morning
Microsoft Teams, the collaboration platform that competes with Slack, has been down since about 8:30 am ET. Microsoft reports the outage was due to an expired certificate. Microsoft first posted that an outage was in progress on its Office 365 Status Twitter feed about 9:00 am ET, stating the company…
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Codility raises $22M for its tech recruiting platform
Codility, a platform that helps tech recruiters and hiring managers asses candidates through online coding tests, today announced that it has raised a $22 million Series A round led by Oxx and Kennet Partners. This marks the first time Codility has raised any funding, after ten years as a bootstrapped…
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What’s the right pace for raising capital?
Identifying patterns from 21 SaaS IPOs Shin Kim 8 hours Shin Kim Contributor Shin Kim is working on a new SaaS startup and is also chief of staff to entrepreneur Elad Gil . Previously, Shin was at Oak Hill Capital and J.P. Morgan and earned a Master’s in EECS (data…
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