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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

TechCrunch

Alex Wilhelm dug into Discord’s possible $10 billion exit to Microsoft and explored IPO price ranges for real estate tech company Compass and Intermedia Cloud Communications, a unified-communications-as-a-service company.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. Enterprise communications services saw slow but steady 1.6% The unified communications market’s meager 1.6% in 2023, the firm says.

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Why Going Cloud Native Is the Right Move in the Recession

d2iq

However, surveys show that most companies intend to increase IT spending in 2023. A Spiceworks Ziff Davis survey , for example, found that even for businesses that plan to cut back in other areas, tech spending will increase. In a market downturn, reducing spending would seem to be the prudent course to pursue.

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Investors double down on tech stocks in massive DoorDash, Airbnb, C3.ai IPOs

TechCrunch

Gorny founded Nextiva in 2008, focused on what it describes today as “UcaaS,” or unified communications as a service. Survey: Americans think Big Tech isn’t so bad after all. Hear the latest from Kayhan Space and Firehawk Aerospace at TC Sessions: Space. Give the gift of Extra Crunch for 25% off. Across the week. TechCrunch.

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Key considerations when building your unified communications strategy

Strategy Driven

Unified communications are a hot topic at the moment among businesses, with a unified communications strategy having the potential to offer huge savings and impressive increases in efficiency if it is done right. How many platforms are currently used in your office? It would also offer massive environmental benefits.

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Managing an Online Travel Agency: How Back Office System of an OTA Works

Altexsoft

Various APIs allow to integrate SMS gateway to your back office, create local phone numbers via VoIP, thus allowing to send alerts, surveys, save conversations, forward information to email and your CRM. Unified communication software. Voice, SMS and text messages via APIs. Messaging platforms APIs.

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What We Know About Making Enterprise Social Networks Successful Today

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Lack more than a couple of these factors, and your ESN isn’t likely to be much of an improvement over say, an e-mail or unified communications system, in terms of the truly differentiated impact it can have. The Hard Won Lessons of Thriving ESNs. Purposeful use case design. How important is this really?

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