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July 29, 2015
People aren’t using Facebook less, according to its new earnings report. Facebook recovered from last quarter’s miss, beating the street’s estimates in Q2 2015 with $4.04 billion in…
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Michael Lopp’s job at Pinterest is to basically make sure he doesn’t have anything to do all day. As head of the company’s engineering efforts, Lopp, a compulsive…
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The idea of Apple Music struck fear in the hearts of listeners like me. The company had enough money to buy exclusives that could fracture and balkanize the world’s…
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Yahoo has officially announced Livetext, an app where users chat with friends by sharing video and text — but no sound. A couple of weeks ago, we spotted…
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Pay-Per-Virtual Reality could become a thing thanks to AltspaceVR. The VR chat room and communication platform just raised $10.3 million to give us a digital place where we…
Read articleJuly 28, 2015
It’s time to clean up the Internet, apparently. Blogging platform Medium this week joined Google and Microsoft, as well as other social platforms including Twitter, Facebook, and more…
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The creators of Vero are betting that there’s room for a new kind of social network — one that’s a bit more attuned to the nuances of real-world…
Read articleJuly 23, 2015
Flipboard has confirmed to us that it has raised $50 million, two days after we first reported that the company had authorized the shares earlier this year. TechCrunch reported earlier that, according to…
Read articleJuly 23, 2015
It was a simple premise during the height of the selfie hype: take a photo of yourself as well as what’s in front of you. It was called…
Read articleJuly 23, 2015
Popular Pays, a Y Combinator-backed startup connecting Instagram users with marketers, has raised $2 million in funding. Under the Popular Pays model, businesses describe the kind of campaign…
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