August 17, 2015
The Ticket Fairy Pays You To Bring Friends To Events
If you convince all your friends to go to a concert, shouldn’t the promoter give you a discount? Now they can with The Ticket Fairy, a full-stack events…
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August 17, 2015
800-Pound Publishing Gorilla Facebook Barges Back Into Blogging With “Notes”
Facebook basically locked Notes in the basement for the past half-decade. Its bare-bones blogging feature launched in 2006 as a place for writing missives that wouldn’t fit in…
Read articleAugust 14, 2015
Slack Decides Not To Kill Email For A Little While Longer, Integrates It Instead
Slack! The email killer! It’s going to kill email! Welp, not today. The team clearly listens to its users, as the company announced a new integration (for Standard…
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CultureSphere Promises A “Bottoms Up” Approach To Employee-Driven Social Media Sharing
While businesses have plenty of options if they want to push their employees to do more social media sharing, CultureSphere founder and CEO Danny Gordon said the existing tools…
Read articleAugust 11, 2015
Makerbase Is An IMDb Of Who Made Your Favorite Apps And Websites
A new service called Makerbase wants to make it easier for anyone to discover who built some of the most popular websites and apps people use every day. The…
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Facebook Brings Auto-Play Video Ads To Apps In Its Mobile Ad Network
Facebook’s making a killing with its native, in-feed, auto-play video ads, and now it’s going to let other developers earn money off them too. Today Facebook announced that…
Read articleAugust 10, 2015
Google Shares Spike 6% After ‘Alphabet’ Restructuring
Google just announced a big restructuring of the company, sending shares up about 6 percent in extended trading. After the announcement, shares of Google rose 5 percent, but have…
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Meet Alphabet, Google’s New Corporate Boss As Sundar Pichai Takes Over The Search Company
Google just rocked the world with some light news on a Monday. It has restructured the company and everything will now report up to “Alphabet Inc.” a new…
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Snapchat Adds Data-Saving Mode To Win Users On A Budget
Snapchat is courting teenagers around the world who want to save their data plans with a new travel mode. When enabled, Snaps, Stories and Discovery content will only…
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Korea’s Daum Kakao Brings In 34-Year-Old CEO To Grow Its Messaging Business Overseas
Daum Kakao, the $7 billion Internet company that owns messaging app Kakao Talk and recently bought Path, has turned to youth after hiring a new CEO to push…
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