Lost My Name, The Kids “Full-Stack” Personalised Book Publisher, Raises $9M Led By Google Ventures
Lost My Name, the London-based startup behind the hugely popular “The Little Boy/Girl Who Lost His/Her Name”, a personalised picture book for kids, has picked a $9 million Series A round. Google Ventures led the investment, along with Greycroft, The Chernin Group, Allen & Co, and former SunGard President and CEO Cris Conde. Read MoreUK’s Yieldify Raises $11.5M From SoftBank And Google Ventures To Fix E-Commerce Conversions
London has emerged as a major hub for digital advertising and marketing, and today one of its faster growing startups is getting some funding to go to the next level. Yieldify, a marketing tech business that has built software to improve and track on-site and email conversions — that is, for e-commerce businesses to keep people shopping, buying and generally interested instead of… Read MoreUber And PayPal Extend Payment Partnership, Now In 19 Countries
PayPal teamed up with Uber back in 2013 to offer the U.S. taxi-hailing service’s customers additional payment options. The world has changed a lot in those 18 months — Uber is now present in over 300 cities with China set to soon become its largest market — so, with that in mind, PayPal and Uber have extended their partnership to cover an additional 9 countries worldwide. Read MoreUber’s Indian Rival Ola Begins Integrating TaxiForSure, Its $200M Acquisition, Into Its App
Ola, India’s homegrown rival to Uber, paid out $200 million to buy smaller rival TaxiForSure in March, and now it has begun to integrate the service into its own app. Read MoreInspirock Gets $3M Seed Funding To Make Vacation Itinerary Planning Easier
Inspirock wants to take the hassle out of travel planning with a site that automatically creates customized itineraries. The startup announced today that it has raised $3 million in seed funding from returning investor MakeMyTrip, one of India’s largest travel booking sites, angel investors, and its founders Anoop Goyal and Prakash Sikchi. Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
To Bootstrap Or Not?
Bootstrapping is a tougher choice than ever for startups. Seed capital is so widely available that deals for the hottest companies can close in days, and many entrepreneurs never even consider bootstrapping their company. On the other hand, some startups don’t have the luxury of securing investors to help launch their company, and others see enough value in going it alone they forgo… Read More
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Netflix Splits Stock And Icahn Cashes Out, Volatility Ensues
It’s been a busy 24 hours for Netflix stock. Yesterday the company announced that its board has approved a 7-for-1 stock split. This announcement immediately sent shares soaring more than 3 percent in after-hours trading, bringing the price over $700 for the first time. Read MoreReport Suggests Young People May Abandon Social Media If Privacy Breaches Continue
With all of the revelations of data snooping and privacy violations at the hands of government agencies and clandestine hacker groups, a new report suggests young people are having buyer’s remorse regarding the amount of social media accounts they’ve poured their life details into. In a report released this week (oddly) by USA Network, survey data shows that 55 percent of young… Read MoreYeplive Brings Landscape Video And Web Comments To The Live Streaming Fight
The live streaming app battle may not have much room for many offerings besides early mover Meerkat and Twitter-owned Periscope, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t going to try. There’s still some hype left in the bottom of that particular barrel, and Yeplive is hoping to scoop it up by offering some features notably omitted from any of the other current offerings. Yeplive is… Read MoreSpotify Buys Beats’ Analytics Provider Seed Scientific
Spotify wants to own big data about bands. Today it acquired analytics firm Seed Scientific to forge a new Advanced Analytics unit tasked with understanding and improving how artists, listeners, and brands interact with its streaming music service. Seed Scientific formerly served clients including Audi, Unilever, the United Nations, and importantly, Apple’s Beats Music. But with the… Read MoreHubSpot Takes Its CRM Tool Out Of Beta
HubSpot, a company best known for its marketing tools, took its CRM product out of beta today. According to the firm, some 60,000 companies used the tool during its beta period. The product is free, but HubSpot’s sales “acceleration” tool, Sidekick, will run you $50 per seat, per month. Read MoreAmazon Echo Proves The Viability Of Voice-Based Home Computing
Voice-powered interfaces are the way forward. For me to make such a pronouncement is kind of ridiculous, as I’ve been an incredibly slow adopter of features like Google Now and Siri, based on the belief that using any kind of voice-powered computing platform in public is downright awkward even when speech recognition and natural language processing actually works. But after about a… Read MoreDropbox Now Has More Than 400 Million Registered Users
Dropbox said today that it now has more than 400 million registered users — a jump from the last public figure about its user base in May last year. Previously, the company had said it had 300 million users. The company didn’t say how many of them are monthly active users, but it still shows that Dropbox’s registered user base at the very least continues to grow. Read MoreTeespring Eliminates 70 Jobs In Providence As Company Restructures
Teespring, the custom apparel startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and others, has laid off 70 employees from its Providence, Rhode Island-based location, TechCrunch learned and Teespring confirms. The move, which impacts those in customer service, selling services and select graphic design positions, represents Teespring’s continued withdrawal from the region where… Read MoreSnapchat Wants To Be How Youngins Watch The Election
Maybe Snapchat can make ‘the youth’ care about politics. It’s certainly going to try. Snapchat is hiring a ‘Content Analyst – Politics & News’ “to cover the 2016 presidential race and other news events for Snapchat” through its Our Stories feature. If Snapchat can create compelling election content, it could better host lucrative political ads. Read MoreA Look Inside KitTea, San Francisco’s New Cat Cafe
Online culture has been obsessed with cats since the Japanese text board 2channel first posted Giko Neko in 1998. Cat cafes have capitalized on this obsession and brought us a cache of cats in real-life locations all over the world. What started as a Japanese phenom has already spawned a couple of cat-themed cafes in Silicon Valley – one in Oakland and another in San Jose. Now San… Read More
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