Neustar acquired MarketShare for $500 million in 2015
Satya Ramachandran · Large Scale Decision Support Systems // Satya Ramachandran, Neustar (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Feb 21, 2016 · at 2:05
Satya Ramachandran, VP of Engineering at Neustar, shares the acquisition outcome of MarketShare at Data Driven NYC.
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“About a couple of months back, we were acquired by Newstar for half a billion dollars.”
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