Twilio is going international, has $17M to spend on souvenirs (and new hires)

Cloud-based phone service provider Twilio is ready to get some new stamps on its passport. The company is rapidly expanding internationally as it takes on a $17 million third round of funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Union Square Ventures.

Twilio offers a pay-as-you-go platform for phone and messaging services, and it provides application programming interfaces (APIs) so that developers can build phone and messaging apps on top of its platform. Airbnb, for example, … Continue Reading

Expanding abroad? Avoid translation travesties

(Editor’s note: Chad Walter is VP of Operations for Chile-IT. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)

As companies start to incorporate technology into everyday practice, distance no longer prevents U.S. businesses from recruiting international vendors to help with sales, development and IT efforts. Despite this reality, there are still a lot of misconceptions about outsourcing and it’s benefits for U.S. businesses.

The emergence of new global IT hubs – particularly those in Latin American countries … Continue Reading