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March 19, 2015
Next week at its F8 developer conference, Facebook will announce new ways for third parties to offer experiences through its Messenger app, according to multiple sources. Facebook hopes…
Read articleMarch 17, 2015
Call it a sign of the times: hot on the heels of Meerkat’s sudden boom in popularity among techies and Twitter’s kneecapping of the service as SXSW began,…
Read articleMarch 17, 2015
HaikuJam v2, officially exiting beta and launching now on iOS and Android, adds collaborative social photo-sharing to its erstwhile haiku-writing proposition — to loudly proclaim that a picture…
Read articleMarch 16, 2015
During his freshman year at Princeton, Michael Pinsky went to the student lounge to watch a Yankees game. Knowing there were plenty of other fans on campus, he…
Read articleMarch 16, 2015
Last Spring, University of Michigan students Niko Natsis and Aaron Nussbaum noticed that some of their friends and siblings would send their pictures to each other on iMessage…
Read articleMarch 16, 2015
“Because so many publishers build their businesses on banner ads, they have to get people back to their site to make money” says BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. But…
Read articleMarch 16, 2015
Yik Yak co-founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington took the stage today at South by Southwest, where they addressed what they described as the biggest misconceptions about their…
Read articleMarch 16, 2015
LinkedIn has made another acquisition to build out its big data recruitment business. It’s acquired Careerify, a startup based out of Toronto, Canada, that focuses on software for…
Read articleMarch 14, 2015
That’s the danger of building on someone else’s platform. You never know when they’ll pivot into your business and steamroll you. Last night, that happened to Meerkat. The…
Read articleMarch 13, 2015
Facebook today announced it has acquired personalized shopping search engine TheFind to help improve its commerce ads. TheFind had raised $26 million from Lightspeed and Redpoint since getting…
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