March 13, 2015
Audvisor Raises $1.4M To Deliver Expert Advice In Three-Minute Audio Clips
If you’re the kind of person who’s got a pile of business books on your desk, books that make you think, “God, when am I going to have…
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March 13, 2015
Personality Test App Knozen Asks You Seemingly Random Questions About Your Friends
Knozen has been described as an app for rating your coworkers, but the startup has been moving beyond that, into becoming a broader social game and personality test.…
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Outernet Joins The Space Race For Internet Accessibility
The space race to launch satellites providing internet coverage to the roughly 4 billion people living in unconnected or nominally connected communities around the world is no longer…
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Splash Soaks Up $6M To Make Promo Events Seem Cool
Eventbrite looks like it was designed in a basement circa 2005. It works great, but gives a boring first impression. Splash, meanwhile, wants you to feel like you’re…
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Photobucket Brings Back An Original Founder With Acquisition Of Photo Chat App Lasso
Photobucket is today announcing the acquisition Lasso, a private photo-sharing and chat app that was designed to simplify the challenges around requesting photos from family and friends. The…
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Amazon Has Quietly Acquired 2lemetry To Build Out Its Internet Of Things Strategy
Amazon is taking another step into the Internet of Things. TechCrunch has learned, and confirmed, that the e-commerce and cloud services giant has acquired 2lemetry, a startup based…
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Spayce Takes On Yik Yak With A Location-Based Social App For Sharing “Moments,” Not Gossip
While popular location-based social app Yik Yak struggles amid controversy and on-campus bannings, a newcomer called Spayce is gearing up to compete with its own take on local…
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Nuzzel Adds Custom Feeds To Help You Follow News About Tech, Beer, And Other Topics
News app Nuzzel is giving users a more topic-based approach to reading the news, through a new feature called Custom Feeds. Created by Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, Nuzzel’s…
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The Guardian Publishes A Pretty Amazing Whisper “Clarification”
The Guardian, the British newspaper that published a series of articles last fall (starting with this one) about anonymous social media app Whisper, issued a “clarification” today about…
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Greenhouse Rakes In $13.6M B From Benchmark To Save You From Recruiting Hell
Hiring is the No. 1 thing founders waste their time on. Not because it’s not important. Bad hires can be toxic. But because it’s inefficient. Sourcing, interviewing and…
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