Oct 6, 2018 - Technology

Salesforce acquires Rebel to expand its Marketing Cloud

Salesforce logo. Photo: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images.

Salesforce is expanding its Marketing and Commerce Cloud by acquiring Rebel, a startup that develops interactive email services for business use, according to TechCrunch.

The details: Rebel will integrate its API-based services, Rebel said a statement. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. It is unclear if Rebel will still provide its services to its current partners like IBM, Oracle, SailThru and others. Salesforce has been acquiring a number of companies to expand its marketing services to go up against Adobe and others.

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Fadel Allassan

24 mins ago - Health

4 former CDC heads say Trump's undermining of agency puts lives at risk

CDC director Robert Redfield and President Trump. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Four former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention blasted the Trump administration's "repeated efforts to subvert" agency guidelines related to reopening schools, accusing the White House in a scathing Washington Post op-ed of undermining science with "partisan potshots."

Why it matters: The directors, Tom Frieden, Jeffrey Koplan and David Satcher and acting head Richard Besser, served in parts of the Obama, Bush and Clinton administrations. They said they "cannot recall over our collective tenure a single time when political pressure led to a change in the interpretation of scientific evidence."

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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian

43 mins ago - World

Chinese students at U.S. colleges face deep uncertainty

Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios

A new visa guideline issued last week would strip international students in the U.S. of their student visa if their college classes are online-only amid the pandemic.

Why it matters: More than 360,000 Chinese students are enrolled at U.S. colleges. Many of them could be forced to return to China if the rule change is implemented.

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Fadel Allassan

1 hour ago - Politics & Policy

Pelosi "absolutely" would skip August recess to reach coronavirus stimulus deal

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told CNN on Tuesday she would "absolutely" be willing to forgo the House's August recess to reach a deal for another relief package to help the country battle the health and economic crises caused by the coronavirus.

The big picture: Pelosi indicated the package would earmark money for coronavirus testing and contact tracing, as well as assistance for state and local governments whose budgets are in dire financial straits due to revenue shortfalls caused by the recession.