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Pearson Buys Certiport For $140M To Beef Up Its IT Testing Business Globally

Pearson Buys Certiport For $140M To Beef Up Its IT Testing Business Globally


Pearson, the educational publisher, today made a move to beef up its international professional IT testing business: it announced that it is buying Certiport, a developer, marketer and distributor of certification exams and [...]
Twilio Calling: Cloud Telephony Startup Adds An Android SDK, Now Works On 75% Of All Smartphones

Twilio Calling: Cloud Telephony Startup Adds An Android SDK, Now Works On 75% Of All Smartphones


Cloud-based telephony API startup Twilio has made significant inroads into VoIP and other carrier services like SMS by launching products that work on the web and in iOS apps, supporting 30,000 developers [...]
Betaworks’ Novel Way Of Funding Early-Stage Ideas: A Studio Deal With Brooklyn’s Fictive Kin

Betaworks’ Novel Way Of Funding Early-Stage Ideas: A Studio Deal With Brooklyn’s Fictive Kin


The plummeting cost of building a startup has created ripple effects throughout the world of early-stage investing. There have been myriad experiments from Y Combinator to ‘Labs’ style compani [...]
Service As A SKU

Service As A SKU


Editor’s note: This post was written by Alex Rampell, the CEO of TrialPay. Rampell is a regular contributor to TechCrunch – see his previous guest posts here. The biggest ecommerce opportunity today involves taking offline services and offering them for sale online (O2O c [...]
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    Twilio Calling: Cloud Telephony Startup Adds An Android SDK, Now Works On 75% Of All Smartphones

    Cloud-based telephony API startup Twilio has made significant inroads into VoIP and other carrier services like SMS by launching products that work on the web and in iOS apps, supporting 30,000 developers in the process. Today it’s widening that net considerably with the launch of a new Android client, the first SDK from the company [...]

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    Betaworks’ Novel Way Of Funding Early-Stage Ideas: A Studio Deal With Brooklyn’s Fictive Kin

    The plummeting cost of building a startup has created ripple effects throughout the world of early-stage investing. There have been myriad experiments from Y Combinator to ‘Labs’ style companies like Sequoia-backed Churn Labs and Los Angeles’ Science. We’re about to see yet another one. New York’s betaworks is crossing the Brooklyn Bridge to do a [...]

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    International Food and Wine Events Website Increases Reach With Wine Enthusiasts

    International Food and Wine Events Website Increases Reach With Wine Enthusiasts HOUSTON, TX (PRWEB) July 19, 2004 Local Wine Events.com, the world’s leading online food and wine events calendar, recently announced that the company has surpassed more than 30,000 posted events since [...]

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    Wholesale Telemedicine By MD247

    Wholesale Telemedicine By MD247 Tampa, FL (PRWEB) May 13, 2012 Supplementary telemedicine healthcare services are typically sold to interested parties one program membership at a time, creating an isolated program participant who often believes that the program is a scam. To [...]

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    Service As A SKU

    Editor’s note: This post was written by Alex Rampell, the CEO of TrialPay. Rampell is a regular contributor to TechCrunch – see his previous guest posts here. The biggest ecommerce opportunity today involves taking offline services and offering them for sale online (O2O commerce). The first generation of O2O commerce was driven by discounting, push-based engagements, and artificial scarcity. [...]

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    It’s On: Facebook Gets Rubberstamp To Trade On NASDAQ Stock Exchange

    Buckle up everybody: Facebook’s initial public offering, the most highly anticipated tech stock market debut since Google’s 2004 IPO, is one step closer to actually happening. This morning Facebook filed an 8-A form with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which indicated that it has received approval from the NASDAQ stock exchange to offer its shares [...]

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