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Messaging App Tango Expands Its Channels Program With BuzzFeed And Other New Publishers
Mobile messaging company Tango is announcing some new additions to its Channels program for publishers and brands, including BuzzFeed and Vimeo. As I wrote when the program launched in June, Tango’s Channels represent something similar to Facebook Pages — it gives consumers a way to subscribe to receive updates from publishers and other brands in the service. It’s not an… Read More -
Rockbot Grabs Funding From Universal Music Group To Bring Its Social Jukebox To More Businesses
Rockbot, a virtual jukebox solution for businesses, has closed strategic investment from Universal Music Group, which is the largest of the major music labels. That funding will be used as Rockbot seeks to expand its business across a wide range of bars, restaurants, and other brick and mortar locations throughout the U.S. Read More -
Mixpanel Adds Mobile A/B Testing To Its Analytics Platform
Mixpanel, the analytics startup incubated at Y Combinator and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is launching a new feature today for mobile developers who want to test out different variations of their app. We’ve written about several startups that are focused on mobile A/B testing, such as Taplytics. Optimizely, the big player in desktop A/B testing, recently moved into mobile. Read More -
A Fancy Cooler Has Stolen The Title Of Most-Funded Kickstarter Project From Pebble
Arguably, Pebble and its record-breaking Kickstarter project woke the slumbering giant that is the smartwatch device category. It should follow, then, that by this time next year we’ll be seeing Android-powered smart coolers from Samsung, LG and every OEM under the sun flooding the market, given that the Coolest Cooler has now knocked the Pebble from its vaunted pedestal, with over… Read More -
Smart Plug Startup Zuli Raises $1.65M And Kicks Off New Pre-Orders
Smart home automation startup Zuli has just raised $1.65 million in venture funding following a successful Kickstarter campaign. The company has created the Zuli Smartplug, a connected outlet that plugs into your existing ones and gains Bluetooth LE powers. A single outlet provides basic smart features, including in-home control of lights and appliances plugged into them, but when you get three… Read More -
StartX And QB3 Open A Biotech Lab In Palo Alto
StartX, the nonprofit accelerator program spun out of Stanford University, is opening a biotech laboratory in conjunction with QB3, the institute focused on molecular biology research at the University of California. The space is intended for early stage medical and hardware tech companies, providing equipment useful for molecular biology startups and early stage hardware startups. Read More -
Fleep, The Team Messaging App Built And Funded By Ex-Skypers, Flicks Monetization Switch
Fleep, the team messaging app built and backed by a number of ex-Skype engineers, is flicking the monetisation switch today. A year after launching as a free public beta, the Estonian startup is introducing a freemium revenue model. Read More -
Pinterest Investor Fritz Lanman Working On Two Different Companies
Less than two years after selling his company Livestar to Pinterest, early Pinterest and Square investor Fritz Lanman is up to his old entrepreneurial tricks. Lanman, who continues to make angel investments and led the seed round of Class Pass, is trying out the “company builder” model, dividing his efforts between Doppler Labs, which is focused on wearable tech products, and DWNLD, … Read More -
Hands-On With Hyperlapse, Instagram’s New Video Creation App
Instagram has just launched a brand new standalone app called Hyperlapse, which focuses entirely on mobile video creation. The app looks dead simple, but is actually doing a lot in the background. When you first open Hyperlapse, you’ll go through a very quick tutorial and are then sent straight into a full-screen camera. The button on the bottom starts and stops recording. Once you… Read More -
Snapchat Raising A New Round From KPCB At A $10B Valuation
The rumors are flying around vanishing messaging app Snapchat, both on and off Secret. These rumors hold that Microsoft and Snapchat are in acquisition talks, though we can’t really grok why they would be, other than that the situation would make a great plot point in the inevitable Snapchat movie (“The Sexting Network”?). According to people familiar with Microsoft, there… Read More
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
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