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Mergermarket Group, a BC Partners portfolio company, announced today that it has acquired TIM Group. Established in 2002 and headquartered in London, TIM Group specialises in the electronic delivery of equity trade ideas and investment recommendations through its independent distribution platform. TIM Group connects financial industry professionals with its proprietary network and technology, revolutionizing how investment advice is distributed, analyzed and monetized. The TIM Group network analyzes and measures trade idea performance, facilitating compliance in line with MiFID II requirements relating to payment for investment Continue reading →

Expedia, Inc., (NASDAQ: EXPE) and SilverRail Technologies, Inc., today announced entry into a definitive agreement in which Expedia® will acquire a majority stake in SilverRail. SilverRail set out to solve rail’s most challenging technology problems and has been an important Expedia industry partner, helping to bring online booking for rail to Expedia’s customers. “Rail is ready for an online revolution, and we’re ready to be a part of it. Rail’s shift online is one of the fastest growing areas of innovation in the $1.3 trillion Continue reading →

Dispatch, the enterprise technology company that is empowering the home services industry to meet the rising demands of the modern customer, today announced a partnership with ServiceMaster, one of the leading home services providers in the United States. The partnership will make Dispatch the software platform of choice for ServiceMaster’s home warranty and pest control brands. Dispatch also announced the completion of a $12 million Series A funding round led by Grandbanks Capital and ServiceMaster, with participation from Assurant, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, Promus Ventures, Continue reading →

Coherent Path on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Content Library, a new email marketing optimization tool that repurposes old email content for new campaigns. Coherent Path’s Content Library aims to maximize marketing productivity and increase the return on investment of future campaigns by extending the lifespan of existing email assets. Coherent Path powers a machine-learning solution that analyzes the entire content history of a retailer’s email marketing program, including any accompanying transactional data, to identify under-exposed products and services to keep marketing content Continue reading →

Trilio Data, the creators of the first and only comprehensive data protection, backup and recovery solution native to OpenStack has announced that TrilioVault is now validated for the SUSE OpenStack Cloud. Organizations who rely on SUSE for their OpenStack deployments are now assured that with TrilioVault, tenants will enjoy ease of use, greater resiliency, and operational efficiencies. “With increasingly complex and critical IT environments, companies need to fully protect their businesses, and at the same time have access to easier, faster, and more reliable recovery Continue reading →

What a triumphant week it’s been at SilverRail Tech On Tuesday evening SilverRail was crowned the winner of the ‘Best Technology Innovation’ award in front of 500+ industry peers at the 2016 Travolution Awards – the UK travel industry’s highest accolade for innovation and excellence online. This was based on the entry that we submitted in June which focused on our SilverCore API – the world’s first unified platform for global rail distribution which is reducing rail complexity, and helping the rail industry to grow Continue reading →

Trilio Data, the creators of the first and only comprehensive data protection, backup and recovery solution native to OpenStack, has hired Tom Lahive as General Manager for Cloud, Service Providers, and Technology Alliance Partners. A key member of the Trilio leadership team, Lahive will build and manage a team that is responsible for sales, enablement, and marketing to OpenStack service providers and technology alliance partners. He will also develop processes, procedures, and tools to support and streamline the company’s sales efforts. “Tom Lahive is an Continue reading →

Increasingly irrelevant to the buy-side and inefficient for the sell-side, traditional broker relationships based on written research and phone calls are fast dying out. Research shows active managers are turning to quantitative techniques and digital delivery techniques in response; fund managers and brokers that can’t adapt will not survive. 94% of the fundamental and quantitative fund managers, responsible for a total of $609 billion in assets, interviewed by Market Structure Partners, said that they expect funds using quantitative techniques to continue to increase in popularity. Continue reading →

In today’s highly automated, data-driven digital advertising market, ensuring great creative can be a challenge. Yet it remains as important as ever, ultimately driving the user experience and ROI for advertisers. The key is to make great, data-driven creative simple, and enable it across devices, formats and channels. Celtra being named a Creative API Partner is a big step towards that goal and a natural fit for our two companies. Snap Inc. has been empowering people to tell their stories creatively for years, with Snapchat Continue reading →

Celtra, a creative technology platform for video and display brand advertising, announced Tuesday that the company was named the winner of the Ad or Marketing Tech Platform category in the 2016 Effective Mobile Marketing People’s Choice Awards, which garnered over 2,000 votes from industry experts. In addition, MMW has learned, Celtra’s Chief Revenue Officer, Jonathan Milne, was voted Mobile Marketer of the Year. “It’s a great honor for us to be named winners in the Effective Mobile Marketing People’s Choice Awards,” said Milne. “We are Continue reading →