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Tumblr 4.0 Arrives On iOS With Better Blogging Tools, Filtered Search, And A New Widget
Tumblr this morning has begun to roll out a sizable update to its iOS application with the release of Tumblr 4.0. The new application, which also now appears under a revamped app icon, includes a number of features previously available only on desktop, like the ability to create secondary blogs on the fly or submit to submission blogs, for example. Meanwhile, other additions are… Read More99designs Raises $10M To Bring Its Design Marketplace To Japan
99designs, the company popularizing the crowdsourcing design model where designers compete to get paid, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding. Founded back in 2008, 99designs was bootstrapped for its first few years before raising a big $35 million round led by Accel Partners. (Accel also participated in the new funding, with the firm’s venture partner Rob… Read MoreVideo Challenge App FightMe Bets On More Ice Bucket Challenges And Social Movements
FightMe is a video challenge app. Now, other “challenge apps” have failed miserably. There just hash’t been the consumer demand for this model. Despite a good run at the idea, Klash, which raised a million Euros in funding, failed after a year. However, FightMe, an iOS app startup, thinks it has the answer. It’s been remodelled and re-launches today with a new version and… Read MoreMusicyou Raises A Seed Round For Its Private Music Sharing Platform
The value proposition of apps which allow you to share music though messaging, like PingTune or MusicMessenger is, largely, to chat about music. Meanwhile, apps like TunePics, Mindie and Flipagram are more about sharing music in a public, Twitter-like, feed. While Music Messenger, PingTune, Mindie and Flipagram have raised VC funding, TunePics has not, being rather the product of an… Read MoreBlaBlaCar Acquires Its Biggest Competitor Carpooling.com To Dominate European Market
BlaBlaCar, a marketplace for city-to-city ridesharing, is acquiring its German competitor Carpooling.com, as well as Hungary-based competitor AutoHop. This is no surprise when you know the French company’s aggressive expansion strategy. While the terms of the deal are undisclosed, Carpooling.com definitely represents an important acquisition for the French company. BlaBlaCar is a… Read MoreVisor Lets You Look Through Other’s Eyes
As we move into our telemetric future, we will soon be able to mediate our experience in the world through apps. Already we can live the lives of others, vicariously, through Meerkat. We can see photos of the food of others with Instagram. And now, thanks to Visor, we can see how long the line is to order at Shake Shack. We are truly living in an era of spooky action at a… Read MoreTwitter Set To Strike IBM-Style Analytics Deal With NTT Data
In the aftermath of Twitter’s big data division GNIP announcing that it would no longer make firehose reseller agreements with third parties, Twitter has provided an update on how one of its firehose licensees is being affected. In a blog post in Japanese, Twitter confirmed that NTT Data, which resold Tweets and their metadata in Japan, will indeed no longer have firehose reselling… Read MoreGamesGrabr Snags $665k To Level Up Its ‘Pinterest For Gamers’
U.K.-based serial gaming entrepreneur Tony Pearce has pulled in another tranche of equity crowdfunding for gamesGRABR, his Pinterest style social network for gamers, bagging £450,000 in seed funding from 220 investors. Read More
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