August 3, 2015
Frontback Is Back With A New Team
It’s a bit of an emotional rollercoaster for the Frontback community right now. On July 23rd, the company announced that it would shut down on August 15th after…
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August 3, 2015
Mobile Marketing And Analytics Startup WizRocket Lands $8M From Sequoia And Accel
WizRocket, which helps companies increase user engagement by fine-tuning mobile, web, and e-mail notifications, has raised $8 million in new funding from Sequoia Capital and returning investor Accel…
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A Conversation With Michael Lopp, Pinterest’s Head Of Engineering
About a year ago, Michael Lopp joined Pinterest as the company’s head of engineering — filling in the leadership of the engineering side next to co-founder Evan Sharp and…
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MyTape Is A Video-Sharing App To Capture And See The World Around You
Meet MyTape, a brand new social app for iOS centered around video. On MyTape, you follow people, shoot videos and watch stuff around you. It’s a sort of…
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Early Apple Designer Susan Kare Joins Pinterest’s Creative Team
Susan Kare, an early Apple designer behind some of the company’s early typefaces and icons, has joined Pinterest. She’ll be part of Pinterest’s creative team as a product design…
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Maybe There Doesn’t Need To Be An Apple Watch App For Everything
Should Apple be concerned that a number of popular app makers like Facebook, Google and Snapchat have yet to embrace its Apple Watch platform with apps of their…
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Facebook Fuels Ad Tracking By Nagging App Users To Instantly Log In On Safari
35 million people run into a Facebook email and password login roadblock on iOS each day, and over half of them bounce. That’s why Facebook confirms to me…
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DogSync Is An App To Help Your Family Keep Track Of Feeding Fido
Designed for pet-loving households, DogSync (a recent winner of our patent-pending TC Radio pitch-off) is a task manager that helps families communicate and sync tasks like feeding, walking…
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Requiem For The App Revolution
The app revolution is dead. In fact, it died years ago. It had been a good run, but a revolution is no longer a revolution when the model…
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Fashion Startup Everlane Arrives On Mobile With An App Catering To Its Biggest Fans
Everlane, the fashion shopping site focused on selling high-quality apparel at lower prices than traditional designer retail, has today made the move to mobile. The company has now…
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