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April 8, 2015
Yik Yak launched just over a year ago, and in that short time, the app has become a household dormhold name among young people. The social network, which…
Read articleApril 8, 2015
Sprinklr, the social media management company that vaulted into the “unicorn club” last month after it raised $46m on a $1b+ valuation, is making an acquisition to expand…
Read articleApril 6, 2015
It was always weird that Snapchat exposed who you snapped with most in the “Best Friends” list, so today the app is ditching that for a new private…
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What if buying something was as easy as Liking it? You’d probably buy a lot more, and buy it through whoever made it so damn simple. Becoming that…
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The arms race for eyeballs online has a new weapon: live video streaming, a la Meerkat and Periscope. This type of content is innately ephemeral. Blink and you’ll…
Read articleApril 3, 2015
This week, Tinder unveiled its first ad in the form of a video promoting Budweiser’s next #Whatever, USA campaign. The video ad will show up for Tinder users…
Read articleApril 3, 2015
No one on their death bed says “all the things I could have owned?!” It’s “all the things I could have done?!” The world is shifting from a…
Read articleApril 2, 2015
Almost one year ago, Google released its diversity data, kicking off a wide-ranging industry conversation about why tech companies and venture capital firms are so unrepresentative of the racial…
Read articleApril 2, 2015
Last summer, Pinterest acquired a visual discovery site called Icebergs, and today that team is showing off what it’s been up to, having since relocated from Spain to…
Read articleApril 2, 2015
LinkedIn, the social network for professionals with nearly 350 million users, has been making a push into the area of anticipatory computing, where it predicts what kind of…
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