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ChangeTip Wants To Kill Clickbait With Social Bitcoin Micropayments
ChangeTip is hoping to drive mass adoption of micropayments on the web by using Bitcoin plus existing social networks as the medium to deliver feeless micro donations to content creators. Which means part of its mission is “to spell the end of click bait”. And that’s something anyone who spends time online should really be rooting for. Read More
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GetSet Uses Natural Language Processing To Reduce College Drop-out Rates
GetSet, a new stealthy US edtech startup that’s aiming to reduce the high college drop-out rate is uncloaking today and revealing its first rollout at Arizona State University, with its 10,000+ freshmen. Truth Lets You Send Anonymous Texts
With Whisper and Secret raising millions of dollars to build anonymous services, all kinds of apps are popping up that let you share things without attaching your identity. While most of the apps emerging try to build a community by letting you scroll through streams of anonymous messages, some developers are creating apps that let you reach out directly to people in your contacts. Read More
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Sympler Offers An Easy Way To Create Fun, Music-Centric Videos
Co-founders Ben Jenkins and Alexander Kane swung by the TechCrunch office recently to show off Sympler, their new video app for iOS. Asked why the world needs yet another app for creating videos on your iPhone, Jenkins argued that “the ones that are out there aren’t really helping people do it.” Specifically, apps like Vine and Instagram don’t tackle video editing,… Read More
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Unseen, An Anonymous Photo Sharing App For Colleges, Raises $2.1 Million
An Austin-based company called Bearch has raised $2.1 million in seed funding for its anonymous photo-sharing app Unseen, which has been trending on college campuses. Investors in the round include Rackspace co-founder Dirk Elmendorf, Indeed.com CEO Rony Kahan, CEO of Woodbolt International Doss Cunningham, and several other angel investors. Read More
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Snapchat Could Be Stripped Of Valuable “Tap-And-Hold For Video” Patent
Snapchat has quietly been embroiled in an intellectual property interference proceeding that could revoke its lucrative patent for a design trick now widely copied by Facebook, Google and more.
Snapchat filed for a patent on the ability to tap and hold a smartphone camera’s shutter button to record a video on August 8th, 2012, while another company called Mojo Media filed for a nearly… Read More
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Spiral Hopes To Nail Location-Based Communities
A new app called Spiral could change the way we connect with the people and places around us.
The idea is pretty straightforward: users see a newsfeed of posts near them, and can add their own updates, and comment on other people’s posts. Users can adjust their geographic filters to see posts from a larger or smaller radius. Read More
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Swarm Lands On Windows Phone
As Foursquare powers through its summer of change, the company is today launching Swarm on the Windows Phone platform. Swarm is the breakaway app from Foursquare that now houses the beloved check-in. Rather than pairing the use cases of sharing your location with friends and searching for things to do, the company split those experiences into two apps. That said, Swarm is a very different app… Read More
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YC-Backed TicketLabs Helps Small Music Venues Get More Fans Through The Door
Over the last few years, technology has steadily worked its way into the concert-going experience. Apps make the ticket purchasing experience a simple affair, while the endless flood of social data gives promoters and bands the ability to target their marketing efforts at those most likely to enjoy their particular style. Read More
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Bolt Vs. Bolt: A Speedy, New Photo Messenger Debuts Using A Familiar Name
There’s another Bolt on the App Store that isn’t Instagram’s experimental photo messenger, and it competes in the same photo messaging space. How will Instagram parent company Facebook react to this new Bolt? Even Bolt’s creator, Nick Bicanic, better known as the founder of mobile dating app Flikdate, doesn’t quite know. Read More
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