Vista Equity Partners to acquire insurance software company Duck Creek for $2.6B

January 9, 2023

Private equity giant Vista Equity Partners has announced plans to take Duck Creek Technologies private in a $2.6 billion deal. Boston-based Duck Creek, a SaaS-based software provider for the property and casualty (P&C) insurance sector, went public back in 2020, initially hitting a market cap of around $5 billion. After peaking at around $7 billion […]

Vista Equity Partners to acquire insurance software company Duck Creek for $2.6B by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

FLIK’s unified checkout solution gives Southeast Asian sellers more control over data

January 9, 2023

E-commerce in Southeast Asia is very fragmented, with consumers having their choice of marketplaces, e-commerce sites and social commerce. Many prefer to buy from large marketplaces, says FLIK co-founder Ahmad Gadi, because those platforms offer promotions and cashback deals. But for direct-to-consumer brands, marketplaces aren’t the best way to get consumer data or foster brand […]

FLIK’s unified checkout solution gives Southeast Asian sellers more control over data by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: introducing our 10 Breakthrough Technologies

January 9, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing this year’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies Each year, MIT Technology Review’s reporters and editors pick 10 Breakthrough Technologies, all of which have the promise to fundamentally change the way we live and work.…

Cropin Raises INR 113 Crore Funding

January 9, 2023
The funds will aid in expanding Cropin Cloud, the company’s recently launched intelligent agriculture cloud platform, to cater to the growing demand for digitization and predictive intelligence in the global agriculture sector

Meet the designers printing houses out of salt and clay

January 9, 2023
Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello may have met as graduate students in architecture at Columbia University, but it quickly became clear that “architecture” would prove an inadequate term to describe their eclectic body of work.   As the pair started working together in 2002, they became increasingly aware that “sometimes the forces that enable architecture,…

NASA’s return to the moon is off to a rocky start

January 9, 2023
It was December 14, 1972, the final day on the moon for the last Apollo mission. The Challenger lander was dusted in a fine coating of gray lunar dirt, called regolith, both inside and out. Geologist Jack Schmitt was packing the sample containers, securing 243 pounds of rocks to bring home. After passing Schmitt the…