Twilio, a cloud business-to-business messaging software company, said it would acquire Segment, a startup that sells software for analyzing customer data, for $3.2 billion, The deal underscores how Twilio–whose shares have soared nearly 200% since the beginning of the year, boosting its market capitalization north of $45 billion–is in a prime position to expand its business into new areas....
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