Swarm Launches Direct Messaging, Ditches Awkward Public Plans
Swarm has today launched private messaging within its location-based social network, ditching options to hop out of the app for a call, text message or a Facebook message. With this update also comes the elimination of the Plans tab, where users would be able to post ideas (let’s get a beer) to their friends publicly. Turns out, that whole system is really awkward. Read MoreHate It Or Love It, Tinder’s Right Swipe Limit Is Working
Tinder has been making waves the past month with the introduction of Tinder Plus, a premium tier of the service that adds extra features like the ability to rewind a left swipe or search for potential matches in a different city. However, Tinder Plus also brings a new “right swipe limiter” into the mix, as users who swipe right too much or too often in a 12 hour period will run out… Read MoreTransitScreen Raises $600,000 To Bring Bright, Shiny Screens To Bus Stops And Subways
In the future we will all wear amazing silver underpants and look at our incoming bus and subway transfers on a screen from TransitScreen. Created by a lone entrepreneur with a dream and some LCDs, TransitScreen is a sort of timetable for mass transit. However, these things can sit in multiple places including in the lobby of your favorite building where they display train times, information… Read MoreSpayce 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 social networking. Its few-weeks-old app forgoes anonymity by default, and instead encourages community members to share their photo and video “memories” happening around a given location, whether that’s… Read MorePearltrees Brings New Editing Features To Its Curation Service
Pearltrees, the Paris-based curation and bookmarking service, is launching a major update to its service today that brings a number of new editing tools to the site. Pearltrees users were already able to write and save notes, as well as store images and other content on the service. Now, they will also be able to annotate the texts they saved from around the web, caption images, and use… Read MoreNuzzel 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 big selling point is simplicity — it shows you a feed of the most-shared stories among the people you follow on Twitter (or your friends on Facebook). There’s no complicated setup and no… Read MoreXamarin Hires Its First CFO As It Eyes International Expansion, IPO
The cross-platform developer tools service Xamarin today announced that it has hired Bryan Morris, the former VP of Finance at Ooyala and CFO of LiveRamp, as the first CFO in the company’s history. Until now, Xamarin CEO and co-founder Nat Friedman used to wear this hat, but as the company continues to grow, he decided it was time to bring on a full-time CFO. Read MoreFelicis Ventures Brings On More Founders To Its Advisory Council With Shopify CPO
Several years ago, venture investor Aydin Senkut just showed up at Shopify’s headquarters in Ottawa. He had heard about them from the organizers of the Grow Conference in Vancouver and decided to stop by apropos of nothing. “At the time, no one really knew who we were,” said chief platform officer Harley Finkelstein. “But we knew of Aydin’s reputation and that… Read MoreMapstr Is A Nifty Little App To Keep Track Of Your Favorite Places
Meet Mapstr, a hybrid map and note taking app that lets you easily bookmark your favorite restaurants, bars and more. It reminds me of the old Del.icio.us, but this time it’s for places. There are already many ways to keep track of places. You can create address book entries, add bookmarks into Google Maps or just create a new note on your phone. But these options are all clunky in… Read MoreBindle Is Group Chat Without All The Noise
Group chat sucks. Maybe not on an enterprise level. You can’t walk into a startup office without hearing that beautiful Slack notification noise. But even though there are tons of messenger apps that allow from group chat — from Facebook all the way to iMessage — none of them were actually made for personal group chat. Bindle was. Read MorePassion Capital Backs Ravelin’s Hybrid Approach To Tackling Online Fraud
Another fintech investment to chalk up in London: Passion Capital has invested an undisclosed level of seed funding in Ravelin, an early stage online fraud prevention startup formed by a team of ex-Hailo employees in January this year. The startup is currently working out of Passion’s co-working space, White Bear Yard. Read More
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