November 1, 2016
Instagram tests shoppable photo tags
Instagram wants you to shop without always having to interrupt your scrolling with a browser window. That’s why today it will start showing shoppable tags on photos from…
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October 31, 2016
Giphy, the platform for all things GIF, raises $72 million in new funding
Giphy, the NY-based search engine and platform for GIFs, has raised $72 million in funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Institutional Venture Partners and China Media Capital. This…
Read articleOctober 25, 2016
The startup redemption of Famous
“It might shock you, but I let go of pretty much everybody. When we went from 34 employees to 4, everyone was sh*tting Twinkies. Everyone was scared to…
Read articleOctober 24, 2016
Google pollutes new Chrome tabs with ‘article suggestions’ – here’s how to disable them
You know what people love? When you take something familiar and useful and replace it with content “for you” that you actually didn’t ask for. That’s one of…
Read articleOctober 18, 2016
Facebook gives app developers a new way to target users with push notifications
Today, it’s not enough to get users to download an app, you have to keep them coming back, or the app will soon be abandoned and forgotten. To…
Read articleOctober 13, 2016
Mobile marketing and data startup mParticle raises $17.5M
mParticle announced today that it has raised $17.5 million in Series B funding. The New York City startup helps marketers collect user data through a variety of services…
Read articleOctober 12, 2016
Alibaba backs PlaceIQ, a provider of location tools and data
PlaceIQ has a new, big-name investor — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. The companies aren’t disclosing the size of the deal; they’ll only say that it’s a strategic, minority…
Read articleOctober 10, 2016
Facebook tests ads in Groups, its next potential cash cow
Facebook’s latest trick to earn more revenue without drowning the News Feed is to serve ads to the 1 billion users of its Groups feature. After people reported…
Read articleOctober 6, 2016
Co-founder Antti Pasila becomes CEO at programmatic ad company Kiosked
Kiosked, a company that dynamically inserts ads into a publisher’s content, has a new CEO — co-founder Antti Pasila. Pasila, who previously served as the company’s chief strategy officer,…
Read articleSeptember 27, 2016
Pullstring launches bot-authoring tools for fun & profit
Pullstring — née ToyTalk — today launched its eponymous product out of private beta and into the hands of creators of conversational interfaces everywhere. Out of the box,…
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