Twilio, the cloud-based communication service provider that lets developers craft messaging applications, is buying security startup Authy for an undisclosed price. As part…
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Konekt gets $1.3M to create a Twilio for cellular connectivity
The cellular industry has been plugging the internet of things for years under the “machine to machine” moniker, but it never caught…
Read MoreGood news fellow humans — we’re not obsolete (yet)
While most think of the internet of things as a network of, well things, most interactions still require a person in the workflow.…
Read MorePebble, Android & Twilio founders to discuss the future of computing at Mobilize
The founders of Twilio, Android and the Pebble watch will all be onstage at Mobilize 2013 in October as well as a host of experts in design, infrastructure and data. Make sure you come.…
Read MoreHow to build your own conference call number in the cloud
Do you hate conference calls? Or at least the tedium of dialing into them? Do you have 10 minutes and a credit card? Then why not build your own single-number conference line?…
Read MoreFrom zero to half-a-billion: CEO Jeff Lawson writes the perfect story for Twilio
Five years ago, Twilio, a cloud-based communication service provider couldn't find a penny. Last week it snagged $70 million and is worth half-a-billion dollars and is on track to do $50 million in revenues in 2013. It has IPO ambitions, thanks to CEO/co-founder Jeff Lawson.…
Read MoreSendGrid adds Parse, Stackmob, Azure integrations
SendGrid is inching towards ubiquity with new integrations to Parse, Stackmob and Windows Azure mobile backend services. SendGrid is popular with developers who want easy email integration for their mobile apps and who don't want to rely too much on Amazon services.…
Read MoreTwilio turns on global SMS service
Twilio, a cloud communication platform, is finally offering its most requested feature: global SMS support. Now, developers will be able to enable their apps and services to send and receive SMS text messages from the U.S. and Canada to more than 150 countries around the world.…
Read MoreBed Battles wants to make waking up … social?
The early bird catches the worm - and then posts about it on Facebook: Bed Battles is a new web app hack that aims to gamify getting out of bed. Are you ready to challenge your friends to get up on time?…
Read MoreA preacher, 500 startups, and a dream to change it all
What Billy Beane is to baseball, Dave McClure wants to be technology startups. And like Beane, he is willing to go anywhere in the world to find a slight edge to beat his richer, bigger and fancier rivals on Sand Hill Road.…
Read MoreSuffer: Rise of text spam creates ugly dilemma for mobile users
The number of junk text messages in the U.S. reportedly rose to 4.5 billion last year. This can create a nasty choice for consumers -- pay to be spammed or pay protection money to a carrier.…
Read MoreSpam Lawsuits Weigh On Twilio, Group Texting Apps
Group messaging apps continue to be both a hot communications tool and a legal minefield. Like other developers who decided to build first a……
Read More5 things I learned at AngelHack
If you've never been to a hackathon, give it a shot even if you can't stick it out for the full ride. AngelHack Boston entrants started coding at noon on Saturday and finished 30 hours later. I was there for 10. Here's what I learned.…
Read MoreTwilio lets iOS app makers add VoIP as a feature
Twilio, the cloud communications platform, is arming app makers with the ability to add Voice over IP features to their iOS apps. With a new Twilio Client for iOS, the company is making it easy for any app with connectivity to incorporate Skype-like functionality.…
Read MoreTwilio raises $17M to expand communications platform worldwide
Twilio, a cloud communication platform powering a wide array of apps, is capping off a huge year of growth with $17 million in Series funding from existing investors Union Square Ventures and Bessemer Ventures. The new money will be used to continue Twilio's worldwide expansion.…
Read MoreAppcelerator opens a market for mobile back-end services
Appcelerator has built up a community of 1.5 million developers that have used its cross-platform development tool to build more than 25,000 apps for iOS, Android and BlackBerry. Now it's looking to turn that community into a selling opportunity by launching a marketplace for software modules.…
Read MoreTwilio embraces VoIP as the phone network fades away
Twilio, which provides a service so companies and web services can add voice or SMS to their menu of options, now will offer developers the option to use all IP communications as well as the old-school phone and mobile networks.…
Read MoreWhat Amazon and Its Customers Must Learn From Last Week’s Outage
Opinion on Amazon Web Services recent outage remains somewhat divided: One side blames Amazon for its technical failings; the other holds the cloud giant's customers responsible for their bad judgment. But the answer to where the primary responsibility lies is a little less black and white.…
Read MoreNeed a VoIP Cloud? Just Whistle & Roll Your Own
If there's a cloud for compute, for storage and any other variation under the sun why shouldn't there be a VoIP cloud to deliver telephony over the Internet? With the launch of Whistle, the 2600 Hertz Project will make building a VoIP cloud cheaper and easier.…
Read MoreAppSumo Offers Discounted Bundle for “Lean Startups”
We've written before about software bundles, which have become increasingly popular. Similarly, AppSumo has put together a bundle of SaaS products that will appeal to "lean startups," timed to coincide with the SxSW Interactive event that has just started in Austin, TX.…
Read MoreCloud Communication Platform Twilio Raises $12M
Twilio, a cloud communications platform, announced it has raised $12 million in a Series B round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The San Francisco company allows other developers to build on top of its pay-as-go telecommunications platform, creating a wide array of text and phone-based applications.…
Read MoreGroupMe, Fast Society Create Private Mobile Social Networks
New York start-ups GroupMe and Fast Society, which both rolled out in the last couple months, are tapping into our phone contact lists to provide people with a simple way to coordinate and communicate with a small pack of roving friends.…
Read MoreGot a Twilio-based App? Get Some Investment Dollars
Twilio, a web-based VoIP development platform, is going to get a boost, thanks to one of its investors: Dave McClure and his fund, 500 Startups. Twilio, a San Franciso-based startup, allows web-app developers to add voice-related functionality to their web apps.…
Read MoreVoxeo Gobbles Up Teleku
Voxeo Corp, the Orlando, Florida-based IP telephony company behind Tropo web-and-telephony cloud-based development platform is acquiring a smaller competitor for an undisclosed amount of money. Teleku. Together, Tropo and Teleku will compete with the startups such as Twilio for the cloud based web-telephony platform business…
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