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Manilla, The Hearst-Backed Service For Managing Bills, Is Shutting Down On July 1
Account management startup Manilla says that it will be shutting down on July 1. We received several tips about the shutdown today, then when I visited the site and tried to sign up, I was directed to this announcement, which says that the service will continue to operate as normal until June 30. After that, users will no longer be able to upload new documents, and it will not retrieve any new… Read More -
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Disrupt Hardware Rocks Our Socks
This week, TechCrunch was consumed by Disrupt NY 2014. It was an amazing week, and made even better by the appearance of three hardware companies in our Disrupt Battlefield finals. Mink, an inkjet printer hack that prints out makeup, wowed the audience. ISI Technology reinvented the water heater with the HeatWorks Model 1, and Mimi focused on making hearing enhancement devices accessible to… Read More -
Dattch, The Dating App For Queer Women, Launches In LA
Dattch, the far more sophisticated version of Tinder aimed exclusively at queer women, is today launching in Los Angeles with some updated features. Dattch is currently operating in the UK and San Francisco, with New York next on the list. Read More -
Netflix Learns From Past Mistakes, Increases Prices The Right Way
When you make a really big mistake, the best possible outcome is that you learn from it and never make it again. It would seem Netflix has done that, based on an email sent out Friday about the company's pricing plan. The price of the streaming service is going from $7.99 to $8.99 for new customers, but existing Netflix subscribers will stay at the $8 price point for the next two years. Read More -
With $3M Total In Funding, Shakr Makes Video Ads Affordable For Small Businesses
Shakr Media announced today that has raised a total of $3 million in funding to expand its tech platform, which enables small companies to automatically create video clips from snippets of information. This amount includes its previous seed round of $700,000. Shakr's latest investor is POSCO Venture Capital, which also helped secure matching funds from the South Korean government. Read More -
As Square Struggles, European Payments Rival iZettle Takes Another $55.5M In Funding
As mobile payment startup Square faces reports that it’s delaying an IPO amid growth problems and other pressures, iZettle, the Swedish mobile payments company that has been referred to as the Square of Europe, has raised another €40 million ($55.5 million). In an interview, CEO and founder Jacob de Geer said the funding will be used to continue building out its business, namely… Read More -
Indian Fashion Discovery Site LimeRoad Lands $15M Series B
LimeRoad has closed $15 million in funding, which it says is one of the largest Series B rounds secured by an online commerce company in India. Investment was led by Tiger Global. LimeRoad, a fashion discovery platform, says that it plans to use the capital to grow its site, as well as its Android app, which launched today to reach India's nearly 100 million smartphone users. Read More -
Subscription E-Book Service Oyster Crosses 500K Titles, Plans An Android Launch This Year
Oyster, a startup that offers offers unlimited access to its collection of e-books for $9.99 per month, has crossed a nice milestone — it says its library now includes 500,000 books, compared to 100,000 when it launched in September of last year. The company also said it recently expanded its partnership with HarperCollins, bringing 10,000 more of the publisher's titles (including Beautiful… Read More -
BitPay Is Raising $30M At A $160M Valuation From Index, Richard Branson
We’re hearing that BitPay, a platform that processes payments in bitcoin for merchants, is raising the field’s biggest round yet. The company is raising $30 million on a roughly $160 million valuation in a round led by Index Ventures, with Richard Branson and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang participating. BitPay declined to comment. With BitPay’s previous funding round, the… Read More -
Snapchat Settles With FTC After Being Dishonest With Users About Privacy
Snapchat has entered into a consent decree with the FTC to address concerns over the company's privacy policy, app description, and in-app notifications after Snapchat was at the center of a huge data breach last year, exposing 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers. According to the FTC, the security breach was in direct contradiction to promises made by the service around security and… Read More
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