MessageBird offers single API for customer comms across WhatsApp, WeChat, Messenger and more – TechCrunch

MessageBird, the Amsterdam-based cloud communications platform backed by Accel in the U.S. and Europe’s Atomico, is unveiling a new product today that aims to make it easier for enterprises to communicate with customers across various channels of their choosing. Dubbed “Programmable Conversations” (yes, really!), the product takes the form of a single API that unifies…

Vector is Cozmo for grownups – TechCrunch

When Anki invited us by the office last week to check out their latest creation, we weren’t sure what the expect. In the eight years since the company was founded by a trio of Carnegie Mellon graduates, it’s offered up a handful of distinctly different smart toys, from its Drive smart cars to 2016’s Cozmo…

Siemens snaps up Mendix in smart factory move

Siemens execs hope to attract more users to the company’s Mindsphere industrial IoT (IIoT) platform with the acquisition of low-code, rapid application development platform Mendix, as Jessica Twentyman reports.  Last week, German industrial group Siemens announced it was to acquire Mendix, a developer of a ‘low-code’ application development platform, designed to help business users build…