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Ben Davenport, One of Facebook Messenger’s Creators, Joins Bitcoin Startup BitGo As CPO
Ben Davenport, who co-founded the startup Beluga which Facebook acquired to build its Messenger app, just left the company after several years to dive into the world of Bitcoin. He’s joining BitGo as a co-founder and chief product officer. BitGo is building a security-as-a-service platform for Bitcoin. Last year, the startup launched a multi-signature wallet, which requires three keys… Read More -
Datalogix Raises $45 Million Series C To Pipe Offline Purchase Data To Facebook And Twitter
Social networks have to prove return on investment to get advertisers to buy bigger campaigns, so they turn to Datalogix to tell them when ads drive brick-and-mortar sales. Datalogix has become a critical cog in Facebook and Twitter’s monetization engines, allowing it to raise a new $45 million Series C round led by Wellington Management Company. The company says revenue has grown 50%… Read More -
Bindo Raises $1.8M To Help Small Brick-And-Mortar Stores Go Online
The growth of e-commerce behemoths like Amazon and the convenience they offer to shoppers have been especially hard on local brick-and-mortar stores. A startup called Bindo wants to reverse that trend. Headquartered in New York City with offices in Hong Kong, Bindo has created an iPad point-of-sale system that integrates with its cloud-based payment platform for small merchants, with the goal… Read More -
A New Yorker’s Take On Swarm
But I have complaints, many of which are compounded by the fact that foursquare is our New York City champion. It’s the darling of Silicon Alley. You’re here in NYC, foursquare. So why is the app so confused by our great metropolis? Let’s start with all the great things about the app. Matthew Panzarino sees Swarm as a strong signifier of change in the mobile app landscape… Read More -
Personal Data Organizer Mustbin Raises $1.5 Million More, Adds Secure Messaging
Mustbin, a personal data organizer that lets you snap photos of important documents – like financial statements, home and vehicle information, medical documents, and more – and store those securely in the cloud, has become one of the go-to apps on my iPhone’s homescreen since it launched out of private beta last November. Today, the company is announcing an additional… Read More -
Microsoft Buys Mobile App Management Platform Capptain To Beef Up Azure
Yesterday, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella noted that Azure, the company’s cloud platform, had more work to do get better traction with startups and developers — an area where one of its biggest cloud rivals, Amazon, has done well. Today, the company is taking a step to improve that: it has bought Capptain, a startup based out of Paris that provides app developers with… Read More -
Infinit Raises $1.8 Million To Become The Definitive File Sharing App
French startup Infinit raised $1.8 million in funding from Alven Capital and 360 Capital Partners. The Infinit app differs from WeTransfer or CloudApp as it uses peer-to-peer technology to boost file sharing between two users. And there isn’t any file size restriction. “We see that a lot of our users share huge files,” co-founder and COO Baptiste Fradin told me in a phone… Read More -
Need, For Men Who Dislike Shopping But Love Fashion, Raises $500,000 Seed Round
Need is an online magazine and retailer for men who hate to shop, but still want to find unique clothing and lifestyle items. The Dallas-based startup announced today that it has raised $500,000 in seed funding led by investors Greg Abbott, CEO of International Dispensing Corporation (IDC); Imran Sheikh, CEO of Aftershock London U.S., and Mobelux, Need’s development partner. The capital… Read More -
TC Cribs Tours Twitch, Where Playing Games Is Part Of The Job
In this episode of Cribs, we stopped by Twitch, the San Francisco-based startup that’s created a massively popular video platform for live streaming online gaming. With traffic that surpasses the likes of Facebook and Tumblr at peak hours, Twitch is often called the ESPN of online gaming. It’s one of the hottest companies around these days, as evidenced by the current rumors… Read More -
Pictorian Offers A Uniquely Designed Photo Storage App, Perfect For Your GIF Collection
On an App Store that today sports over a million applications and a set of recommended design guidelines that hold a heavy influence over how developers proceed, it’s rare to come across an app that offers a unique perspective. But a newly launched photo storage application called Pictorian does just that. The app, a simple utility for storing photos outside your iPhone’s… Read More
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
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