Tidio helps small retailers and other businesses improve customer service through automation.  They do mostly chatbots and live chat but also offer a unified inbox for messages from email, social networks, ecommerce, and other systems.  The company just closed a $25 million Series B, bringing total funding $26.8 million.

Google lashed out at the Department of Justice’s threat to break up the company, calling the proposals “radical.” Among other things, Google says the proposals would threaten users’ privacy, stifle innovation and break Android and Chrome. Given the appeals process, it will likely be years before we know whether Google will stay in one piece.