Chances are you still mostly think of Vonage as a consumer VOIP player, but in recent years, the company also launched its Vonage Business Cloud (VBC) platform and acquired Nexmo, an API-based communications service that competes directly with many of Twilio’s core services. Today, Vonage is bringing its VBC service and Nexmo a bit closer […]
View More Vonage brings number programmability to its business serviceCategory: Twilio
Techstars will build and launch startups with new venture studio
Techstars is announcing Techstars Studio, its latest attempt to bring corporations closer to the startup ecosystem.
View More Techstars will build and launch startups with new venture studioCloud stocks take a beating
It was a stormy Monday for cloud stocks today with the general trend pointing way down. Okta stock took the biggest beating, down over 15 percent to $48.67, and even mighty Salesforce had its worst day since 2016, according to CNBC, down 8.7 percent to $121.01. Wall Street was apparently disenchanted with just about every […]
View More Cloud stocks take a beatingCorporate travel startup TripActions raises $154M at $1B valuation
Co-founders Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig wow’d investors with TripActions 700% annual growth rate.
View More Corporate travel startup TripActions raises $154M at $1B valuationBrex has partnered with WeWork, AWS and more for its new rewards program
Brex cardholders can now accrue and spend points on AWS, Twilio, SalesForce, WeWork, Instacart and more.
View More Brex has partnered with WeWork, AWS and more for its new rewards programTwilio launches a new SIM card and narrowband dev kit for IoT developers
Twilio is hosting its Signal developer conference in San Francisco this week. Yesterday was all about bots and taking payments over the phone; today is all about IoT. The company is launching two new (but related) products today that will make it easier for IoT developers to connect their devices. The first is the Global […]
View More Twilio launches a new SIM card and narrowband dev kit for IoT developersTwilio launches Autopilot to help developers build better bots
Bots went through the hype cycle faster than a speeding roller coaster, as the promise of chatting with a computer quickly turned sour. Now, Twilio wants to take another stab at this market with the launch of Autopilot, a new developer service for building omnichannel bot experiences. “Omnichannel” is a word only a marketer could […]
View More Twilio launches Autopilot to help developers build better botsTwilio makes it easier to take payments over the phone
Making a payment over the phone, maybe because you are trying to change an airline ticket or to pay a last-minute bill, still feels like an antiquated process. You read your credit card number to an agent, then your expiration date and your security code. In the process, some number will inevitably get mixed up […]
View More Twilio makes it easier to take payments over the phoneUnifonic, dubbed the Twilio of emerging markets, closes $21M Series A round
Those of you familiar with the incredible rise of Twilio, which came along to utterly disrupt the communications world, will be interested to hear that another player plans to do the same, but this time in the staid and tricky area of emerging markets. Unifonic, which has been dubbed “the Twilio of emerging markets” has […]
View More Unifonic, dubbed the Twilio of emerging markets, closes $21M Series A roundTwilio acquires email API platform SendGrid for $2 billion in stock
Twilio, the ubiquitous communications platform, today announced its plan to acquire the API-centric email platform SendGrid for about $2 billion in an all-stock transaction. That’s Twilio’s largest acquisition to date, but also one that makes a lot of sense given that both companies aim to make building communications platforms easier for developers. “The two companies […]
View More Twilio acquires email API platform SendGrid for $2 billion in stockTwilio is working toward a 50% female workforce by 2023
Diversity fatigue is a real thing, but that’s not news to Twilio Global Head of Culture & Inclusion LaFawn Davis. What that does mean for her, however, is less talk and more action. Since coming on board as Twilio’s diversity and inclusion leader about one and half years ago, Davis has been focused on creating […]
View More Twilio is working toward a 50% female workforce by 2023Twilio’s contact center products just got more analytical with Ytica acquisition
Twilio, a company best known for supplying a communications APIs for developers has a product called Twilio Flex for building sophisticated customer service applications on top of Twilio’s APIs. Today, it announced it was acquiring Ytica (pronounced Why-tica) to provide an operational and analytical layer on top of the customer service solution. The companies would […]
View More Twilio’s contact center products just got more analytical with Ytica acquisition