![]() The first was Biba, which it acquired last year for the videoconferencing piece of the service. This is the second acquisition we’ve been able to identify that Amazon has made to build Chime. Many of these are smart moves on the part of AWS: they can help it expand revenues per user and margins on basic cloud services, which Amazon prices lower to compete against others like Google, Microsoft and Rackspace for what is essentially a commoditized product. Maybe offering up the URL was its investment in the startup.)Īmazon’s AWS - which posted $3.53 billion in revenues last quarter - has been on a mini buying spree of late to expand the services it offers on top of its cloud infrastructure - specifically in areas like productivity and security. (And here’s one for the tech brand watchers: Salesforce even once had its own task management service called Do.com, which it shut down in 2013. They included Salesforce, which has a penchant for products with short names and, like Amazon, is working hard to expand the amount of value-added services it offers to users on its platform. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were others having discussions. Do had raised only $2.4 million, but from a very long list of well-connected investors. ![]() It’s not clear what parts of Do.com are being used by AWS (although another former employee now works in engineering at Amazon) - or what price Amazon paid. ![]() We have reached out to several people at Amazon, as well as Do.com’s founder and CEO Jason Shah, who now says he is a product manager for Chime, for a formal confirmation. Do didn’t name a buyer, but a reader tipped us off to the company’s profile on LinkedIn, which notes that the startup is “now a part of Amazon Chime.” Other Do staff also note the acquisition on their profiles. On February 15 (two days after Chime launched), Do announced it had been acquired and would close its service - including its web, mobile and Apple Watch apps - at the end of the month. The company has acquired Do.com, a startup that had built a platform to make meetings more productive by doing things like managing notes in preparation for them, and creating reports for those who were not there, as well as organising the meetings themselves. Amazon is rolling it into Chime, a new communications suite for businesses that it launched last month and offers via AWS. Amazon has quietly made one more acquisition to build out the productivity services on its cloud platform AWS.
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