Twilio to buy Segment for $4.4 billion

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Twilio to buy Segment for $4.4 billion

Customer data infrastructure startup snapped up.

Cloud communications platform provider Twilio plans to buy customer data infrastructure company Segment for US$3.2 billion (A$4.44 billion), Forbes reported. The deal, which had not been finalised as of the weekend, was expected to be at least partially based on Twilio stock, the report added, ...

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