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Foursquare Co-Founder Naveen Selvadurai Joins Expa Startup Studio As NY Partner
Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai is joining the Expa startup studio, founded in May 2013 by former Uber and StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp. Selvadurai joins Expa as a partner focused on New York operations for the organization, which is not to be confused with your standard accelerator, incubator, or investment firm. Instead, Expa runs much more similarly to a betaworks… Read More -
Cliptone Is A Silly “Twitter For Video” App With Voice Filters, Background Music And More
A new application called Cliptone, which lets you share short video clips with friends, has grown to over 22,000 downloads in the five days it’s been live on the App Store. And that’s before the company did any press or put out an official announcement. According to founder Rick Kats, the app has taken off within some high schools for private sharing purposes, and is now… Read More -
TVTY Raises $4.5 Million To Sync TV And Online Ads
French startup TVTY raised $4.5 million from Partech Ventures, 360 Capital Partners and business angels. This is yet another sign that French companies’ efforts to advertise technology have been doing very well. TVTY provides an API for advertising companies to bridge the gap between TV campaigns or events and web ads. In other words, if you want to launch an advertising campaign on an… Read More -
Pearltrees Radically Redesigns Its Online Curation Service To Reach A Wider Audience
Pearltrees, the Paris-based online curation service that launched in late 2009, was always known for its rather quirky Flash-based interface that allowed you to organize web bookmarks, photos, text snippets and documents into a mindmap-like structure. For users who got that metaphor, it was a very powerful service, but its interface also presented a barrier to entry for new users. Today… Read More -
BitLit Helps You Get E-Book Versions Of The Physical Books You Already Own
Chances are, you’ve got a good number of those old-school physical books in your house but have mostly moved to e-books at this point. What if you could potentially get a cheap or free e-book copy of some of those books? That’s what BitLit promises its users. The Vancouver, Canada-based startup is working with publishers directly to offer readers discounted or free e-book versions… Read More -
Mobile Photo Sharing App Cluster Now Focused On Private Groups, Adds Support For Video, Notes And Tablets
Mobile photo-sharing application Cluster, one of the better-designed apps for creating albums which can be shared with and collaborated on with friends, is rolling out several significant changes today. With “Cluster 2.0,” as this released is called, the company is introducing tablet versions for Android and iPad, adding support for video and notes, and most importantly… Read More -
Former Googlers Launch Osmo, A Gaming Device That Combines Real-World Play With The iPad
A number of companies have attempted to combine physical objects and the iPad in an effort to create new kinds of children’s games, whether that’s Crayola with their DigiTools coloring pens or games that teach toddlers their shapes, like Tiggly. Today, another digital toymaker, Tangible Play, is entering this space with the launch of a series of high-quality games designed for… Read More -
Codecademy Takes Its Online Learning Portal To The UK, France, Brazil, Estonia And Argentina
Back in 2012, when the online coding-education platform Codecademy announced a $10 million round of funding, the startup said it would invest the money in international growth. Two years later, Codecademy is making some big moves to fulfil that ambition: it’s opening its first international office, in London, and it is announcing partnerships in five markets — the UK, France… Read More -
Home Cleaning Startup Homejoy Acquires, Shuts Down Competitor Get Maid
Homejoy just announced its first acquisition — New York-based “Uber for maids” startup Get Maid. Both Get Maid and Homejoy announced their cleaning services towards the end of 2012. They have a slightly different emphasis — Get Maid is more focused on immediate service, promising users that the maids will arrive within two hours of their order, while Homejoy… Read More -
Tinder-Style Clothes Shopping App, Mallzee, Swipes £500K To Grow At Home And Abroad
‘Tinderfaces’ are in app vogue right now. By which I mean Tinder-esque ‘swipe to filter’ interfaces. ‘X app is the Tinder of Y’ has become the standard descriptive shorthand for this trend (named, of course, for dating app Tinder which popularized making snap aesthetic judgements swipe style). U.K. startup Mallzee is just one example of apps following in… Read More
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