May 10, 2015
A New Project From Lulu Says That I’m 89 Percent Dude
If you get tired of asking Microsoft how old you look, here’s a variant from startup Lulu — a site that answers the question, “How Dude Do I…
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May 9, 2015
Skip Googling With Facebook’s New “Add A Link” Mobile Status Search Engine
Mobile link sharing is a clumsy rigmarole of app switching and copy & pasting. So to get more people posting links, Facebook is testing an in-app keyword search…
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“Who’s Viewed Your Posts?” LinkedIn Adds Analytics To Its Publishing Platform
LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, has been on a mission to add different services to its platform to expand the ways that people use it beyond looking…
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SimCity Creator Will Wright’s New App Wants To Create A Graphic Novel Of Your LIfe
The creator of SimCity, Will Wright, has come out with a new app called THRED — and it isn’t a game. Instead, Wright describes it as a natively…
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Rewind’s New App Lets You Create Photo Timelines That Disappear After A Day
Spotted this week at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley, was the newly launched social photo-sharing app Rewind. As its name implies, the idea with this app is to…
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Facebook Launches In-App Purchase Install Ads
Facebook is combining its lucrative app install ads with deep linking so a specific in-app purchase page opens once the app downloads. The result is a powerful new…
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Meerkat Launches Developer Platform To Differentiate From Periscope
How did it feel getting cut off by Twitter with just 2 hours notice? “It sucked” says Meerkat founder Ben Rubin. That’s why it’s determined to treat developers…
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Chartbeat Raises $15.5 Million To Save Publishers From The “Viewpocalypse”
ChartBeat today said it raised $15.5 million in its latest round of funding — and that money is going toward helping publishers improve their advertising businesses. Recently the Interactive…
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Encrypted Chat App Wickr Creates New Non-Profit Arm, Nico Sell Steps Down As CEO To Lead It
Some big changes ahead for Wickr, the messaging app that emerged in the wake of the NSA private data leaks to offer consumers an encrypted, more secure alternative to mainstream services…
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On Piracy, Periscope CEO Says “There’s Way More Media Attention Than Problem”
“Nobody wants to watch Game Of Thrones on Periscope” says the Twitter-acquired startup’s co-founder and CEO Kayvon Beykpour. Despite widespread reports of Periscopers using the mobile live-streaming app…
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