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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

Tech.Co

Many have seen the acquisition as an attempt to fight back against Shopify's rampant growth during the coronavirus pandemic. The Amazon/Selz Acquisition. Amazon's acquisition of Selz doesn't represent a dramatic change to its business model. A good alternative to BigCommerce with better web design. Test Score.

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Devise Interactive Acquired By Vincit

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Irvine-based Devise Interactive , an interactive agency providing web design and other services, said today that it has been acquired by Vincit , a publicly traded company based in Finland. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Vincit provides UI/UX and software development services.

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fusionZONE Automotive Buys MotorWebs

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Pacific Palisades-based fusionZONE Automotive , a developer of website software for automotive dealers, said Wednesday that it acquired MotorWebs , a web design company that specializes in creation and management of car dealership websites. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. MotorWebs was based in Seattle.

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CrazyEgg Buys Hello Bar

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CrazyEgg, which is based in La Mirada, has quietly built a healthy following providing website analytics tools, centered around creating a visual "heat map" of how visitors are using and visiting web pages. Those tools are used by web page designers to figure out how to better engage users and tweak their web designs.

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Stock options: Guard the Gold

Berkonomics

Such service providers as web designers, public relations firms, even venture banks granting loans, often offer higher value services for a lesser amount of cash and some amount of stock options or warrants (written promises to sell stock at a set price for a future period in time).

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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

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In January, Los Angeles-based Pluto TV (www.pluto.tv) was acquired by Viacom for $340M, one of the largest acquisition deals so far in the region this year. I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. The opportunity for an acquisition came from them.

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ServiceNow Buys San Diego Specialist in Customer Experience, Design

Xconomy

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW ), the Santa Clara, CA-based giant that provides cloud-based IT services, is boosting its emphasis on human-centered design with its acquisition of Telepathy , a San Diego specialist in customer experience and design. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.