14 posts tagged ‘Acquisition’
Filmic’s Entire Staff Laid Off
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Jaron Schneider (Hacker News): Filmic, or FiLMiC as written by the brand, no longer has any dedicated staff as parent company Bending Spoons has laid off the entire team including the company’s founder and CEO, PetaPixel has learned.[…]Considered for years as the best video capture application for mobile devices, the team behind Filmic Pro and […]
Airbnb acquires secretive firm launched by Siri co-founder
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Airbnb has acquired a secretive new AI startup, GamePlanner.AI, the company announced this morning. CNBC reports that the purchase price was around $200 million, a figure that TechCrunch was unable to confirm at publication time. GamePlanner was co-founded by Adam Cheyer and Siamak Hodjat. Cheyer famously helped co-launch the startup Siri, which Apple acquired and […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Mint.com Replaced by Credit Karma
Emma Roth (via Hacker News, Reddit): Intuit first acquired Mint in 2009, an app that has offered a free way for users to track their budgets, manage expenses, negotiate bills, and keep tabs on subscriptions. Now, Intuit is inviting users to Credit Karma, a service that the company acquired in 2020. While Credit Karma offers […]
Microsoft Finalizes Activision Blizzard Acquisition
Dan Milmo (Hacker News, MacRumors): Microsoft has completed its $69bn (£57bn) deal to buy Activision Blizzard, the maker of games including Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, after the UK’s competition watchdog cleared the acquisition.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had moved to block the deal in April, citing concerns that Microsoft – the […]
Masimo v. Apple
Brian Merchant: Kiani, an electrical engineer by training, had founded the Irvine company Masimo in 1989. Over the next three decades, he and his colleagues built Masimo into an industry leader in pulse oximetry, used to take readings of the amount of oxygen in a person’s blood — a crucial, sometimes life-saving, measurement.[…]Kiani and the […]
Atlassian Acquires Loom
Atlassian (via Hacker News): Loom is an asynchronous (async) video messaging tool that helps users communicate through instantly shareable videos. Today, almost 5 million Loom videos are created every month by their 200,000 passionate customers. […] As Atlassian consolidates Loom into its platform, engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira, leaders […]