{"id":3356,"date":"2012-08-28T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2339431"},"modified":"2012-08-28T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T16:34:00","slug":"cloud-computing-rackspace-buys-e-mail-start-up-for-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-rackspace-buys-e-mail-start-up-for-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Rackspace Buys E-Mail Start-Up for Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace is going to acquire a two-year-old Y Combinator e-mail start-up called Mailgun.<br \/>\nTerms were not disclosed but, aside from Y\u2019s seeding, it looks like the fledgling only raised $1.1 million last year.<br \/>\nMailgun provides a web service for integrating e-mail inboxes into apps like Twilio lets developers build voice and SMS in their apps.<br \/>\nIt says it enables functionality like private user mailboxes, photo uploads from cell phones, e-mail-driven comments and discussion groups.<br \/>\nRackspace says the deal will let it offer cloud-based e-mail services in applications and web sites. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2339431\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace is going to acquire a two-year-old Y Combinator e-mail start-up called Mailgun.<br \/>\nTerms were not disclosed but, aside from Y\u2019s seeding, it looks like the fledgling only raised $1.1 million last year.<br \/>\nMailgun provides a web service for integ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}