Spotify has announced that it is set to acquire Findaway, a digital audiobook distribution for an undisclosed price. Findaway works across the entire audiobook ecosystem with a platform and offerings that serve authors, publishers, and consumers of this rapidly growing industry, which is expected to grow from $3.3 billion to $15 billion by 2027. “It’s […]
Israeli B2B intelligence company Lusha announced that it has completed a $205 million Series B financing round recently, at a company valuation of $1.5 billion. The round was led by PSG, with additional investment by ION Crossover Partners, bringing total investment in the company to $245 million. The company has developed a crowdsourced data community […]
F.N.B. Corporation recently announced that it has integrated its eStore shopping tool into the FNB Direct mobile app as part of a series of innovative enhancements that build on customers’ ability to bank digitally. Along with a significant upgrade to its mobile banking experience, including multiple new features, the Company has expanded its suite of online loan […]
DoubleVerify, a software platform for digital media measurement, data and analytics, has entered into an agreement to acquire OpenSlate, a pre-campaign contextual targeting platform that enables brands to align advertising with suitable or contextually relevant content across social video and CTV, for $150m (£111m). OpenSlate’s solutions provide insight into the nature and quality of ad-supported content […]
Recurrent Ventures announced that it has acquired independent digital media company Donut Media. Donut is renowned for its massive YouTube channel, which garners millions of views every week on a wide variety of automotive entertainment videos. This acquisition marks Recurrent’s first acquisition in the video space, representing gains in social, video, and eCommerce capabilities, and […]
L’Oréal Middle East has selected Accenture to help the beauty group across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) use data and advanced technologies to deliver a more authentic and human-centred consumer experience across its brands. Accenture Interactive will leverage its expertise in data-driven marketing transformation to provide L’Oréal Middle East a more precise and connected approach […]
Litmus announced new capabilities boosting efficiency and collaboration across the entire email workflow. Updates include enhancements to Litmus Builder, helping marketers build more impactful emails by enabling faster, easier email creation and adding to their email design system, and Litmus Proof, providing automated reminders and enabling users to review and approve emails with the click […]
Trade enabler, DP World, announced the launch of its global wholesale eCommerce platform DUBUY.com in Kenya. This latest expansion of DUBUY.com follows its successful launch in Rwanda earlier this year, where the platform has become a major gateway for trade in the East Africa region. The move into Kenya demonstrates DUBUY.com’s commitment to supporting the […]
Yellow.ai announced the launch of a new solution, the ‘INBOX’, a unified omnichannel customer support helpdesk for agents to seamlessly manage customer queries across 35 plus conversational channels. With an intuitive UX, INBOX enables agents to handle requests from a single dashboard in any language, offering complete customer history with superior context, reducing query resolution […]
Invoca has launched Lost Sales Recovery, a new solution that spots missed sales conversion opportunities that occur when high-intent callers fail to reach a live agent because they hung up or reached voicemail. This technology also addresses an acute challenge for multi-location and franchise businesses by identifying these lost conversion opportunities across every location, region […]
