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Mobileum Inc. announced that it has acquired Niometrics, a provider of deep network analytics. The acquisition expands Mobileum’s actionable analytics platform with customer discovery, engagement, and experience capabilities, enabling Communications Service Providers (“CSPs”) to identify new revenue streams and to improve customer experience across the entire customer lifecycle. Mobileum’s Active Intelligence platform is a leading […]

Blending the digital and physical worlds, Mixed Dimensions,  announced it has joined the Unity Verified Solutions Program. For the first time ever, developers can offer players customisable figures of characters from their favourite Made with Unity games.  “Our technology makes it extremely simple for game developers and publishers to offer high quality personalised and unique […]

Middle East – General Motors Middle East (GM MEO) announced the appointment of Sharon Nishi as new Chief Marketing Officer across the Chevrolet and GMC brands, effective July 1st. Nishi will help continue to transform GM’s Marketing and Customer Experience operations in the region while leveraging the team’s expertise and driving GM MEO’s Ambidextrous Business […]

Discord has acquired ‘Ubiquity6 ‘, which was founded as an AR (Augmented Reality) startup and has recently shifted its focus to online sharing experiences. The two companies didn’t share any financial details about the deal. Ubiquity6 founder Anjney Midha tweeted, ‘I’m very happy to be able to create the future with Jason Citron and Stanislav […]

Tapcart announced it has raised Series-B funding of $50 million. The round was led by Left Lane Capital with participation from Shopify, SignalFire, Greycroft, Act One Ventures and Amplify LA. Consumers in massive numbers are flocking to mobile devices to shop for their favourite brands. Tapcart powers many of the App Store’s top shopping apps […]

Vonage announced that it has launched Vonage Contact Centre (VCC) for Service Cloud Voice, empowering customers to enhance the agent and customer experience with intelligent, omnichannel and global calling capabilities – all within Service Cloud Voice, powered by Vonage. Integrated directly with Salesforce Service Cloud, Vonage Contact Centre for Service Cloud Voice is currently available […]

Local tech company Metricsflow recently backed by Silicon Valley-based VC fund GoAhead in push towards a more privacy-friendly user experience on the web. Newfoundland-based tech startup Metricsflow announced an investment from GoAhead Ventures, out of Silicon Valley. The recent backing by GoAhead is to strengthen the company’s cookieless analytics platform. The startup previously raised a […]

Amazon announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired Wickr, an end-to-end encrypted communication platform. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We’re excited to share that AWS has acquired Wickr, an innovative company that has developed the industry’s most secure, end-to-end encrypted, communication technology,” said Stephen Schmidt, Amazon Web Services’ vice president. […]

New strategic partnership provides entry into rapidly growing UAE and Saudi markets, estimated to be US$7 billion and US$11 billion in market size, respectively. Splitit, the company empowering consumers to use their existing credit to spread payments over time, announced a partnership with tabby, the Middle East Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) provider. tabby will […]

MeasureOne, the consumer-permissioned data platform, announced its newly expanded consumer-permissioned data platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering. Building on its expertise in bringing consumer-permissioned academic data, MeasureOne will now offer access to consumer-permissioned employment, income, and other consumer data types for any business that will benefit from a trusted, efficient and streamlined source for consumer information. MeasureOne also […]