August 21, 2015
CrunchWeek: Amazon’s Soul, Ashley Madison, And Uber’s IPO
Welcome back friends, we are here to cap off the week, taking a look at the biggest stories in the process. This time ’round, our coterie was helmed by…
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August 21, 2015
Reserve Acquires Set For Service, A Startup Offering Guest Management Tools For Restaurants
Reserve, a “dining concierge” startup that helps users with restaurant reservations and payments, has acquired bootstrapped New York City company Set for Service. Set for Service offers a…
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Swarm Gets Back Into The Game With Leaderboards
In its quest to add a little fun through your (literal) journey through life, Swarm is launching version 3.0 of the app, bringing in a special new game…
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Giphy Cam Lets You Create And Share Homemade Gifs
Giphy, the search engine for all things gif, has today released a new app called Giphy Cam that lets users create their own gifs to send or share…
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Israeli App Security Startup Snags $2.3M Seed Round
AppInside, a tool designed to help app developers check for security vulnerabilities, announced a $2.3 million seed round from Boston’s Accomplice today. When a company commissions an app, they…
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Dropbox Now Lets You Drag And Drop URLs To Share Webpages
Dropbox announced a pretty handy feature today that allows you to drag and drop URLs into Dropbox. Anyone with access to where you’ve dropped them can then open…
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Cliick Wants App Users To Click Over Clickbait
Meet Cliick: another dating app wannabe, but one that’s taking a bit of a leftfield approach to the perennial problem of matching singles. Instead of proffering profiles for…
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The 50 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 1
Hardware took the spotlight at today’s Y Combinator Demo Day, reflecting a major shift of the accelerator beyond the cliche mobile app startup. Out of the 50 companies…
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Kik Raises $50M From Tencent To Become The “WeChat Of The West”
Kik, the Canadian company behind the messaging app of the same name has announced $50M worth of funding from one of its partners, China’s Tencent (also the biggest…
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Yell Endlessly Into Your Phone, And Now Nuance Will Transcribe It
Sick of typing up meeting notes or interviews? Speech recognition master Nuance’s new Dragon Anywhere transcription app can turn what you say into text with no limit on…
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