Friday business roundup: Google Nexus event, Thumbtack becomes a Unicorn, Business Insider acquired
Oct02
It’s been a big week in tech news. Google held their annual Nexus event, and the world of tech media was set abuzz with the announcement of the acquisition of Business Insider by German media conglomerate Axel Springer. The deal went through with the New York-based publishing business worth $442 million. In case NASA’s discovery of evidence of flowing water on Mars had you too excited to keep up with other news this week, let us recap the week’s need-to-know headlines and funding events for you. The week in numbers This week Index logged 167 funding events and 32 acquisitions, with the median…
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