F5 acquires Shape Security for $1B
F5 got an expensive holiday present today, snagging startup Shape Security for approximately $1 billion. What the networking company gets with a shiny red ribbon is...
Negotiate for ‘better’ stock in equity-funded acquisitions
Timothy R. Bowers Contributor Share on Twitter Timothy R. Bowers is the Managing Partner of VLP Law Group LLP. Andrew P. Dixon Contributor Share on Twitter...
Coral raises $4.3M to build an at-home manicure machine
Coral is a company that wants to “simplify the personal care space through smart automation,” and they’ve raised $4.3 million to get it done. Their first...
Snopes rolls its own crowdfunding infrastructure to prepare for 2020’s disinformation warfare
2020 will likely be one of the most bitter and hard-fought elections in decades, not just on pulpits and stages, but on the true battleground of...
Do more startups die of indigestion or starvation?
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the grey space in between. Today, we’re weighing a standard bit...
Adtech told to keep calm and fix its ‘lawfulness’ problem
Six months after warning that the real-time bidding (RTB) component of programmatic online advertising is wildly out of control — i.e. in a breaking the law...
The sorry state of AR startups in 2019
Even when Apple telegraphs its hardware strategy, it’s proving to be nearly impossible for startups to beat them. The company’s executives have been motioning interest in...
Refining your website’s user experience in 3 steps
There are plenty of sites out there. Beyond producing great content, it’s vital to make yours stand out. How? One way is to provide an exceptional...
Improving customer support with our Google Operations Centers
As our business evolves, the composition of our workforce often changes with it. Customer and user support, such as answering calls, product troubleshooting, and campaign set-up,...
Putting you in control: our work in privacy this year
Every day, hundreds of people at Google work on building the best privacy protections into our products. In 2019, we made a renewed push around privacy...
