November 21, 2015
Readbug Wants To Be Spotify For Indie Magazines
Readbug’s pitch to its target indie magazine publishers is the chance to increase their digital reach without having to do any extra work or spend any extra money…
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November 21, 2015
Upthere’s Beta Users Have Uploaded More Than 3.5M Files
Upthere launched their first apps into beta last week, and so far the beta period is off to a good start, the company tells me. No word on…
Read articleNovember 20, 2015
Chernin’s Otter Media Invests $22M Into Anime Service Crunchyroll
Otter Media says it’s investing another $22 million in Ellation, the parent company of anime-focused video service Crunchyroll. Founded in 2006, Crunchyroll’s content includes relatively well-known shows like Naruto Shippuden and…
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The Samsung Gear VR Is Your Window Into The Future
Virtual reality is a reality…in the sense that the hardware, software and content stars are finally aligning to make the platform approachable by more than just hardcore developers,…
Read articleNovember 19, 2015
Nuzzel Revamps Its Social News App And Raises $1.7M
Social news aggregator Nuzzel is unveiling version 2.0 of its website and app — a version that CEO Jonathan Abrams described as “Nuzzel for Everyone.” Nuzzel previously worked…
Read articleNovember 18, 2015
BuzzFeed Hires Google’s Lenke Taylor As Its First Chief People Officer
BuzzFeed is hiring a new executive to lead recruiting and human resources — Lenke Taylor, who’s currently Google’s head of people operations for business functions in Europe, the Middle East…
Read articleNovember 18, 2015
Now You Can Steal Any Vine’s Audio To Jump On The Remix Bandwagon
Vine is a never-ending series of inside jokes. Every day, some weird video or audio clip becomes the trend and everyone races to make their own remix. Now…
Read articleNovember 17, 2015
To Go After Local Neighborhood News And Marketplaces, Hoodline Raises $1.6M
One of the most sought-after, but never quite dominated, frontiers in online media and marketplaces has been centered on local communities. Hoodline, a San Francisco-based startup, is trying…
Read articleNovember 17, 2015
Behind The +1: Meet The New Google+(Plus)
Google+ has always been a project for Google, regardless of what you’ve read in the media. With projects, come changes…and there have been quite a few for Google+…
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Google Open Sources Two Tools To Import Mail Into Gmail
If you’ve ever been stuck using another email service and want to move over to Gmail, importing all of your mail is a real pain in the ass.…
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