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Merchants will soon be able to sell products on eBay through Shopify(BETAKIT)
Shopify merchants will have the ability to sync inventory information from Shopify to eBay.
3 SaaS companies that understand branding(BUSINESS2COMMUNITY)
In this day and age where SaaS products come and go and buyers are more impatient than ever, there are several things that can make a SaaS brand get noticed. Here are three SaaS brands that are getting it right.
Slack announces seven more companies backed through $106 million fund(BETAKIT)
Slack’s fund is dedicated to early-stage investments in companies that are building apps in Slack.
Gong, an AI-based language tool to help sales and customer service reps, nabs $20M(TECHCRUNCH)
The Series A1 round, which brings the total raised by Gong.io to date to just over $26 million — was led by previous investors Norwest Venture Partners and Shlomo Kramer.
Casalova acquires MyPropertyManagers, including assets of $35 million(BETAKIT)
MyPM’s entire team will be joining Casalova.
Chronometriq raises $3.5 million to expand health appointment booking platform across North America(BETAKIT)
Chronometriq said that last year, it had more than 1.2 million people using its products in Quebec and Ontario.
OwnBackup grabs $7.5M Series B investment for SaaS data backup service(TECHCRUNCH)
The company plans to spend some of the new cash expanding its product set, while continuing to build out its sales and marketing arm.
New Quest SaaS package manages Azure AD, Office 365(EWEEK)
On Demand, the first SaaS platform from the Quest Microsoft Platform Management business, is automated and designed to handle any size workload.
OpenText launches AI assistant to help business analysts with decision making, task automation(BETAKIT)
OpenText said the AI assistant, Magellan, has the potential to help users analyze key components of an enterprise such as customers, employees, invoices, and documents.