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Game developer Disruptor Beam announced today that it has teamed up with publisher Tilting Point to bring its mobile game Star Trek: Timelines to more audiences. Under the deal, Tilting Point will spend $29 million to promote Star Trek: Timelines, and the two companies will co-develop another role-playing game based on an existing intellectual property. Star Trek: Timelines is a free-to-play game that came out for iOS and Android in early 2016. It features characters and ships from across all Star Trek shows and eras. Continue reading →

We’re excited to announce new influencer collaboration capabilities for marketers and creators on Pinterest as a result of the launch of Pinterest’s new influencer marketing program and API under the Pinterest Marketing Partner’s Content Marketing specialty. As an official Pinterest Marketing Partner, Mavrck is now able to better understand and measure how people interact with creator-generated content on Pinterest. With more than 250 million people around the world using Pinterest to determine what to do or buy next, Pinterest is the visual discovery engine that Continue reading →

–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dispatch, a leading field service leader and customer experience pioneer, announced today it has received a strategic investment from Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”) with participation from existing investor GrandBanks Capital. Vista is a leading global investment firm focused on software, data, and technology-enabled companies. Vista provides companies and management teams with the capital, access, and infrastructure needed to scale effectively to compete and succeed in today’s digital economy. The investment in Dispatch comes from Vista’s Endeavor Fund, which focuses on emerging, high-growth companies with Continue reading →

Click here to check out Jamie Schneiderman’s candid interview with HR.com on the pain of people planning and the magic of Success-Based Matching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuqrJjXGw-E&t=2s

Former EMC Corporation Director to Bring Market Expertise as Trilio Eyes Continued Expansion BOSTON – September 10, 2018 – Trilio, the leader in cloud-native data protection solutions for OpenStack and KVM, today announced the appointment of John R. Egan to the company’s Board of Directors. Egan, who was an early employee, long-time executive, and Board Member at EMC Corporation and other industry-leading companies, brings his decades of experience in storage, data protection, and enterprise infrastructure to help drive Trilio’s growth in the market. “Jack Egan Continue reading →

Chartbeat, Amobee and Adobe were the top winners of this year’s Digiday Technology Awards, each collecting two awards. Chartbeat won Best Audience Measurement Platform and Best Mobile (& Web) Analytics Platform for its audience analytics dashboard for publishers. Amobee won Best Data Management Platform and Best Marketing Dashboard Software for its work with Honda Odyssey in the industry’s first sharable, scalable virtual reality campaign. This campaign had a 791 percent engagement rate from smartphone users visiting the microsite. Adobe was named Best Testing and Personalization Continue reading →

Brendan is the COO of a large OEM that has been in business for three decades. From its early days, the company has embodied a culture of diligent written documentation to help understand how happy their customers are. Every task that has ever been done at Brendan’s company comes with a thorough paper trail–from customer surveys and job details, to design specs and invoices. Of course, none of this data is actually helpful. For all the time Brendan’s team puts into record keeping, they still Continue reading →

Trilio, the leader in data protection and recovery solutions for OpenStack, is announcing a major update of its flagship product, TrilioVault. The upcoming Version 3 release expands the company’s backup and recovery capabilities beyond OpenStack for the first time and will support Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)-powered virtualization platform. Version 3 is expected to be released this summer, with private demos available by request. “Most modern organizations are standardizing on open source, increasingly moving toward KVM-based technologies as part of multiple Continue reading →

The undisputed champion of retail email is Wayfair, the home goods ecommerce firm. It is No. 1 in a new study by Coherent Path: How 100 Of The Top Retailers Engage Shoppers In the First 45 Days and Beyond. Not that it has much competition: Many retailers are sending too many emails, failing to optimize them for mobile and falling short on personalization, partly because they are not making the best use of their data, according to Coherent Path. Coherent Path studied every email sent Continue reading →

Bison, a fintech company focused on developing innovative software solutions for the private markets, has closed a funding round led by FINTOP Capital. Also participating are Bison’s existing investors, Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE), a global private markets asset management firm, and GrandBanks Capital, a Boston-based VC firm. Along with the investment, Bison also announced Rick Kushel, General Partner of FINTOP, has joined Bison’s Board of Directors. The funding comes a little more than a year after the successful launch of Cobalt LP and Cobalt GP, Continue reading →