Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. has today announced the general availability of its Elastic SIP Trunking service, following a successful beta test that launched in November 2014. The service is a cloud-based solution that provides connectivity for IP-based communications infrastructure to connect to the public switched telephone network (PSTN), for making and receiving telephone calls ...

Google Inc.’s video site YouTube is considering launching a subscription video service in the face of increased competition for original content from VoD services including Hulu and Vimeo. The report, buried in a long piece from Variety about the increased competition for the Google-owned video giant states that “YouTube is exploring the prospect of launching its own subscription ...

Google Inc. has announced that it is shutting down Google Code, its open source code project hosting service effective January 25th, 2016. In a post to the Google Open Source Blog Chris DiBona, Google’s Director of Open Source explained that the move to close the service comes due to the fact that GitHub is more popular, and ...

Amazon.com is reported to have acquired Denver based Internet of Things (IoT) platform and technology startup 2lemetry, Inc. Amazon confirmed the news with Venturebeat (first reported elsewhere) and said that “it looked forward to continuing to support 2lemetry customers.” Founded in 2011, 2lemetry is a cloud platform company focused on IoT in the enterprise with an ...

Software as a service (SaaS) e-commerce accounting firm Webgility Inc. has raised $2.5 million in growth funding from SaaS Capital. The investment is the first investment from SaaS Capital’s second fund of $58 million it announced March 5th. The firm doesn’t provide traditional venture capital, but capital to startups in a fashion that is an alternative ...

We don’t usually share details of marketing campaigns for cat food companies here at SiliconANGLE but when you find one that involves cats uploading images to Instagram, how could we resist. The new campaign from the Mars Inc. owned Whiskas Australia includes a new service they’re calling “Catstacam,” a Wi-Fi enabled camera that attaches to a ...

Twitter Inc. changed its terms of service Wednesday to ban non-consensual intimate photos or videos, a.k.a. revenge porn. If you’re not familiar with the concept, revenge porn is sexually explicit media that is publicly shared online without the consent of the pictured individual, usually, as the name may suggest, in an act of revenge, say ...

Ridesharing startup and Uber Inc. competitor Lyft Inc. is said to have raised a $530 million Series E in a round led by Rakuten Inc. that included Fortress Investment Group. The Wall Street Journal reported the round was based on a $2.5 billion valuation. Founded in 2012, Lyft offers a ridesharing service that aims to differentiate itself ...

The money never seems to stop for chat application Snapchat Inc. with news today that they’re taking a new round from Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Bloomberg Business has the scoop and claims the round is $200 million Series E on a $15 billion valuation. Reports surfaced in February that Snapchat was looking to ...

Software as a Service (SaaS) business intelligence startup Looker Data Sciences Inc. (Looker) has raised $30 million Series B in a round led by Meritech Capital Partners that included Sapphire Ventures, and previous investors Redpoint Ventures, First Round Capital and PivotNorth. Based in Santa Cruz, CA, Looker offers a browser-based development environment for business intelligence. The service ...