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Alex Algard, founder and CEO of call performance management company Hiya, urged industry players to collaborate to combat spam calls.

The Eavesdropping Scam is a new scam call tactic that uses vague voicemails as a lure to get victims to call the scammers themselves.

Hiya, a call performance management cloud, has released its 5th annual “State of the Call” report based on more than 150 billion calls analyzed, and 12,000 consumers and 2,000 businesses surveyed in the U.S., Canada, UK, Germany, Spain, and France. The report finds that consumers and businesses pre

Swarmia raises $8M Seed to help software development teams deal with data Swarmia, a B2B SaaS company for software development teams dealing with data, has raised a €5.7 M Seed round and a previously unannounced 1M€ pre-seed round, taking its raise to €6.7M ($8M). The Seed round was led by Alven Capital and joined by Jigsaw VC, Irena Goldenberg, Alex Algard, Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen, Jonathan Benhamou and Romain Huet. Lifeline Ventures, the sole investor in a previously unannounced 1M€ pre-seed round, also participated. The cash wil be used to scale to the US. Founder Otto Hilska is a se...

Mastercard will pay $850M to acquire identification startup Ekata, which spun out of Whitepages April 19, 2021 at 11:38 am The news: Financial giant Mastercard announced today that it will acquire Seattle startup Ekata for $850 million. Ekata’s background: The company sells identity verification products to help more than 2,000 businesses such as Postmates, Alaska Airlines, and Lyft discern between good and bad actors. It spun out of Whitepages in 2019 and has around 200 employees across offices in Seattle, Amsterdam, Singapore, and Budapest. Rob Eleveld, who became CEO of Whitepages in 2...