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September 30, 2016
Shazam, the mobile and desktop app that acts as a digital ear and song identifier, crossed the 1 billion download mark recently, according to a report from Billboard on Thursday.…
Read articleSeptember 29, 2016
SoundCloud as a company is a disaster, but its the only streaming service with the DJ sets and remixes kids love. So it makes perfect sense that Spotify…
Read articleSeptember 28, 2016
Tyra Banks rang the closing bell at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center in San Francisco this afternoon. The supermodel turned entrepreneur and startup investor was there to celebrate the…
Read articleSeptember 26, 2016
Big media companies are backing newsletter startup theSkimm. Following an $8 million round led by 21st Century Fox that was announced in June, theSkimm announced today that it…
Read articleSeptember 26, 2016
Google has been focusing for years on finding better ways to track and measure ads as we switch from one device to another to consume media like TV, music or written articles…
Read articleSeptember 24, 2016
Snapchat is the only company cool enough to possibly dismantle the Google Glass stigma. Awkward, useless, and a threat to privacy are how many think of computers you…
Read articleSeptember 24, 2016
The art of the lip sync has had a profound impact on the state of our…ok no, but dammit is lip synching fun. For those of you locked…
Read articleSeptember 23, 2016
iHeartRadio could be getting more competitive with on-demand music services like Apple Music and Spotify next year. Launched by the radio and media company Clear Channel (which has…
Read articleSeptember 22, 2016
A startup called Gfycat (which is pronounced “Jiffy Cat”) has raised a mammoth $10 million seed round to turn its already popular user-generated content platform into a revenue…
Read articleSeptember 15, 2016
Twitter’s big day is finally here. Tonight is the first night of NFL’s Thursday Night Football, which will be streamed all season on Twitter (as well as CBS…
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