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31Aug By AdityaNo Comments

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Pinterest Terminates Lease of New Office Space

SAN FRANCISCO, 31st Aug 2020-- Visual discovery platform Pinterest has terminated its lease for approximately 490,000 square feet of office space to be constructed near its current headquarters campus in San Francisco, California. Instead, the company’s present plan is to continue to lease its current buildings in downtown San Francisco and remain an active member of the local community. This action is intended to support a more diverse and geographically distributed workforce at Pinterest. "As we analyze how our workplace will change in a post-COVID world, we are specifically rethinking where future employees could be based," said Todd Morgenfeld, CFO and Head of Business Operations of Pinterest. "A more distributed workforce will give us the opportunity to hire people from a wider r...

Facebook Acquires Israeli Messaging Company REDKIX

27Jul By AnkitaNo Comments

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Facebook Acquires Israeli Messaging Company REDKIX

Redkix, an Israeli email startup that provides tools to combines email, messaging and calendar features more effectively into one app has been acquired by Facebook. Facebook made the purchase in hopes of building out its own communication features inside Workplace, which is the enterprise version of Facebook. Redkix has raised $20 million and has offices in both Silicon Valley and Israel, it had from investors including Salesforce Ventures, has offices in California and Tel Aviv. The social networking giant declined to say what it paid in the acquisition. Facebook launched Workplace in 2016, which is a subscription-based social platform for businesses, is used internally by Facebook employees, is more like the regular, consumer version of Facebook which means that it has features lik...

Facebook Officialy Introduces New Tool For Enterprises – Workplace

10Oct By NitishNo Comments

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Facebook Officialy Introduces New Tool For Enterprises – Workplace

The social media giant added one more tool in its kitty, which helps enterprises at work called workplace. Facebook introduced Workplace (formerly known as Facebook at Work) as a pilot project about a year and a half ago adding some big companies and startups. Starbucks, Godrej, Yes Bank, auto rickshaw aggregator Jugnoo and logistics company Delhivery are the clients for this project. Now, more than 1,000 organizations around the world use Workplace. People have created nearly 100,000 groups and the top five countries using Workplace are India, the US, Norway, UK and France. Facebook opened up Workplace for any organisation that wants to use the service, at very competitive pricing- companies will pay $3 per user for the first 1,000 monthly active users, $2 per user for 1,00...

18May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Bengaluru Based Bhive Co-working Space Raises $1million Funding

BHIVE Workspace, one of the well known brands in Bangalore’s startup ecosystem, has raised about $1 million in funding led by Blume Ventures. BHIVE Workspace is the largest co-working space in Bangalore catering to over 150+ ventures. With this $1 million funding, BHIVE plans to expand strongly in Bangalore while also establishing a presence in the top 6 cities of India. The funds will also be used to attract top talent, build technology that will further enhance customer experience and in turn position BHIVE as an undoubted leader in the office space market. Prior to this, BHIVE had attracted investments, from the likes of Raghunandan G (Founder, TaxiForSure), Rajesh Rai (Venture Capitalist and co-Founder, Venturesity), Arihant Patni (Managing Director, Hive Technologies), Sanjay M...

Coimbatore is next the startup hub after Bengaluru

20Aug By No Comments

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Coimbatore is next the startup hub after Bengaluru

In 2012, Dhruv Kumar shifted the base of his online medical advice platform, iCliniq, to Coimbatore after operating it out of Bengaluru for two years. The reason: He didn't want to be overwhelmed or distracted by the hoopla around startups in the tech capital. "I wanted to be out of all the noise and focus on building a quality product," he said during a recent interview. "There are events all the time and the place is flooded with funding stories. Those days, we thought we were a tech startup and did not focus enough on the health and business side." Several young entrepreneurs like Kumar, who started up in Bengaluru are shifting to Coimbatore. Do-PartTime, a part-time job discovery portal, is another example and one of the reasons for the shift was talent retention. "Every comp...