March 8, 2015
Smule CEO Jeff Smith Is Weirdly Optimistic About The Music Industry
“I think this is one of the most exciting times to be in the music business.” That’s not a sentiment I hear very often, but it’s what Smule…
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March 6, 2015
Lady Gaga’s Backplane Crashes, Burns Money, Tries To Rise Again
You know what no one wants to do? Join a brand’s standalone social network. The problem is that it took Lady Gaga’s startup Backplane four years, multiple founders, and…
Read articleMarch 4, 2015
Instagram Starts Letting Ads Be Clickable
Instagram never allowed URLs to open until now. It wanted people browsing photos, not the web. But Instagram says its advertisers demanded more vivid ways to influence people…
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Newly Independent Social Monitoring Service Sysomos Launches Redesign, New API
Sysomos was among the earliest players in the enterprise social media monitoring and analytics space (together with the likes of Radian6, which was later acquired by Salesforce). Five…
Read articleMarch 2, 2015
Zuck Says “Sure”, Facebook Would Love To Work With Google On Global Internet Access
Connecting the world doesn’t have to be a cutthroat competition, Mark Zuckerberg signalled on stage at Mobile World Congress earlier today When asked if Facebook’s Internet.org access initiative would…
Read articleMarch 1, 2015
Tinder Plus Will Launch On Monday
Tinder Plus, the dating app’s first step into the wonderful world of freemium monetization, will launch on Monday for $9.99, according to sources familiar with the matter. Tinder…
Read articleFebruary 27, 2015
Storify Founders Leave For Open Source, Baby
They’ve got new tales to tell. After five years running Storify, which lets you collect social media updates into narrative timelines, co-founders Burt Herman and Xavier Damman are…
Read articleFebruary 26, 2015
Vurb Is Crazy Enough To Fight Google
Google Search was not built for mobile. It’s all about lists of web pages, but the small screen is ruled by apps. That’s why if Google launched today, it…
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If You Think Tinder Needs More Cute Pets, BuzzFeed Has The App For You
Oh, BuzzFeed. Don’t ever change. The company just released what it says is its second ever mobile app, called Cute Or Not. As you might expect from the…
Read articleFebruary 24, 2015
Designers Ditch Perfectionism For Instant Feedback With Wake
“How does this look?” That was a surprisingly difficult question to get an answer to until now. Today, Wake launches the private beta of its tool that lets…
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