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  • Yarn’s App Lets You Share Short Clips From Movies, TV Shows And Music Videos

    Yarn’s App Lets You Share Short Clips From Movies, TV Shows And Music Videos

    GIF-sharing is so 2015. Or at least, a startup called Yarn hopes that will be the case. The team’s recently launched mobile app offers a different way to have fun while messaging your friends, by offering a way for you to search for and discover short clips from movies, TV and music videos that you can then pop into your conversation. Today, Yarn only supports Facebook Messenger, but… Read More
  • SmartThings And Samsung Team Up To Make Your TV A Smart Home Hub

    SmartThings And Samsung Team Up To Make Your TV A Smart Home Hub

    Samsung and SmartThings are buddying up to introduce Samsung’s latest line of Smart TVs, complete with SmartThings platform integration so folks can use their TVs as an interface to control the home. There is no shortage of internet-connected devices out there, from standard security systems and smart lighting systems all the way to the connected kettle. But a connective language… Read More
  • RoboFisher Will Let You Fish In Even The Harshest Of Storms

    RoboFisher Will Let You Fish In Even The Harshest Of Storms

    Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s inability to fish in thee! In northern, colder climes, fish, as we all know, tend to freeze right in place and take nutrients in through their skin because they have their pores open all the time. But what if you want to go catch some of those fish? Robofisher has the answer. This service allows you to rent time on a fishing… Read More
  • Why Groupon Needs To Go Private To Rebuild Its VisionCRUNCH NETWORK

    Why Groupon Needs To Go Private To Rebuild Its Vision

    After seeing big and small competitors collapsing or withdrawing altogether from the race, Groupon still enjoys an undisputed leadership in the deal space. However, with slow growth in North America, and no growth at all in the international markets, the once fastest-growing company in history is having a hard time meeting the growth expectations of public markets. Read More
  • The Freelancer Generation: Why Startups And Enterprises Need To Pay AttentionCRUNCH NETWORK

    The Freelancer Generation: Why Startups And Enterprises Need To Pay Attention

    Gone are the days of the 40-hour work week that kept us at work eight hours a day. I find that most startup founders or business owners in Silicon Valley work 50-60 hours a week. Today, freelancing is becoming the accepted norm of the startup world. As more startups are starting to use the millions of freelancers, it’s driving more and more people to join the freelancer generation. Read More
  • How I Created A $350 Million Software Company Knowing Nothing About SoftwareCRUNCH NETWORK

    How I Created A $350 Million Software Company Knowing Nothing About Software

    I’ve always wanted to make a lot of money, have people pay a lot of attention to me and do a lot of exciting things. I just never knew how. Many of my friends who are founders of their own companies tell me how they exhibited the entrepreneurial spirit as a kid — they sold candy out of their backpacks, had a landscaping business during the summer, etc. They created value and… Read More
  • Investing In Artificial IntelligenceCRUNCH NETWORK

    Investing In Artificial Intelligence

    Artificial intelligence is one of the most exciting and transformative opportunities of our time. From my vantage point as a venture investor at Playfair Capital, where I focus on investing and building community around AI, I see this as a great time for investors to help build companies in this space. Read More
  • Alibaba To Invest $1.25B In Restaurant Delivery Service Ele.me, Says Report

    Alibaba To Invest $1.25B In Restaurant Delivery Service Ele.me, Says Report

    Alibaba will reportedly invest $1.25 billion in Ele.me, a food delivery service based in Shanghai, says financial news site Caixin (link via Google Translate). The deal would Alibaba the startup’s biggest shareholder, with a 27.7 percent stake. Read More
  • Bessemer Venture Partners’ Ethan Kurzweil Talks Video In 2016

    Bessemer Venture Partners’ Ethan Kurzweil Talks Video In 2016

    2015 was a big year for video — especially when it came to user-generated video. Now there are services like Periscope and Meerkat, which are enabling users to broadcast the world around them live. We also saw YouTube launch a subscription model. And, according to Bessemer Venture Partners’ Ethan Kurzweil — who led the firm’s investment in Twitch — we’re… Read More
  • 13 Asian Startups To Watch In 2016

    2015 was an eventful year for the tech industry in Asia. Funding started to flow in India, which is expected to become the world’s second-largest Internet market soon, while many tech companies in China, South Korea, and Southeast Asia also hit key milestones. The following is just a small sample of startups that will do impressive things next year in industries ranging from finance… Read More
  • #MisguidedPR: The Industry’s Internal CrisisCRUNCH NETWORK

    #MisguidedPR: The Industry’s Internal Crisis

    A U.S. Department of Labor report last year stated there were approximately 57,000 PR managers and 208,000 PR specialists in America; conversely, there were only 46,500 journalists. Do the math.That means there are roughly 5.7 PR professionals for every one journalist. That’s like the equivalent to having six crying babies with only one babysitter. Read More
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