I Can Has New CEO? Cheezburger’s Ben Huh Steps Down After 8 Years
After acquiring a tiny little site called I Can Has Cheezburger? in 2007, Ben Huh took it to levels that went way further than the internet. The site, and at one time Huh himself, were a bit of a household name. Today, he has announced that he’s stepping down as CEO, to be replaced by its President and COO Scott Moore. Before there was Buzzfeed, before there was every Huffington Post… Read MoreYC’s BlueCrew Provides Workers For The On-Demand World (But Hires Them As Employees With Benefits)
The Damocles sword hanging above the emerging on-demand economy is how to classify workers, and whether the dichotomy between permanent W2 workers and 1099 contractors is even appropriate to the kinds of work that exist today. For example, Uber has stuck to the contractor model, since drivers provide their own cars, set their own hours and the company doesn’t need to do substantial… Read MoreRhinobird Enters The Live Streaming Race With Its Collaborative, Hashtag-Powered App
Though it’s still unclear how many competitors the live-streaming app market can viably host, that hasn’t stopped a number of startups from taking on the top contenders, Twitter-owned Periscope and independent alternative Meerkat. The latest to join in the fray is Rhinobird, which is touting a number of technical advantages over the incumbents as its point of differentiation. Read MorePinterest Rolls Out Its First Development Platform Integrations
Pinterest’s first partners for its developer platform, which began opening up in May this year, are starting to roll out — with Polyvore and If This Then That (IFTTT) being among the first. Pinterest plans to slowly open up its developer platform, requiring developers for the time being to sign up for access and then adding the partners they want to work with to what is essentially… Read MoreRental Platform Zoomcar Nabs $11M To Launch In More Indian Cities
Zoomcar, a Bangalore-based self-drive car rental platform, has picked up $11 million in fresh funding from Sequoia Capital, Empire Angels, and NGP. The new capital, which brings its total raised so far to $22 million, will be used by Zoomcar to add 7,000 new cars to its fleet, which currently numbers 1,500, and launch in 15 more cities. The company already has 250 pickup spots in Bangalore… Read MoreApester Raises $5M To Bring Its Polling Tools To More US Publishers
Apester is announcing that it has raised $8 million in Series A funding. We wrote about the company back when it was a social game startup called Qmerce. Now it offers tools for online publishers to create polls, surveys, personality tests and video quizzes, then embed them in their articles. Read MoreLola, Offering Safer Tampons As A Subscription, Picks Up $1.2 Million In Seed Funding
There is now a subscription service for just about anything, and feminine hygiene products are no exception. There is HelloFlo, Le Parcel, Juniper and the list goes on and on. But scheduled deliveries does not a great service make. Lola, a new startup that just picked up $1.2 million in seed funding, is looking to differentiate not through merely scheduling deliveries, but by enhancing the… Read MoreVideoStitch Grabs $2.25 Million To Produce 360 Video In Real Time
French startup VideoStitch just raised $2.25 million from Alven Capital for its video editing software solution. This isn’t your average video editing software, as the company is able to output a live 360 feed using multiple action cameras, making it perfect for virtual reality headsets. Read MoreUber Is Now Testing “Suggested Pickup Points”
Uber is going to tell you where you should get picked up. A few days after I wrote a story recommending that Uber launch a feature called “Suggested Pickup Location”, I’ve spotted the company testing a feature called “Suggested Pickup Points” in San Francisco. When dragging the pickup pin, the feature explains that passengers can “save time at these… Read More
YouTuber PewDiePie Responds To Haters After They Discover He Made $7 Million Last Year
Felix Kjellberg aka PewDiePie is the king of the YouTubers. He’s a YouTube star with 9 billion views and Expressen, a Swedish newspaper, estimated that he made $7 million last year on advertising, a feat that is no longer an outlier in the burgeoning world of online stardom. In the video Kjellberg described his 5 year career as a YouTube star whose entire oeuvre is dedicated to playing… Read MoreClipMine Improves Videos With Crowdsourced Tagging And Annotations
So this happens to pretty often: I pull up an online video that I want to watch, only to be taken aback when I realize that it’s 10 or 20 or 30 minutes long. It’s particularly frustrating when there’s just one section or just one quote that I’m looking for. I end up skipping around trying to find that one bit — not exactly a great experience. A new startup is… Read MoreHooks, The App That Lets You Get A Notification For Almost Anything, Lands On Android And Apple Watch
Hooks, the app that sends you push notifications triggered by things that are important to you, has a new version for Android, as well the now almost obligatory Apple Watch app. Previously, the latest version of Hooks was iOS only. Read MoreAbacus Expands Its Reimbursement Platform To Interview Candidates And 1099 Workers
Abacus (YC W14) is a platform that provides an easy way for employees to get reimbursed for company expenses. Instead of submitting a form at the end of each month, Abacus lets employees snap a picture of a receipt on the fly and, after company approval, get reimbursed just a day or two later. The company has expanded considerably in the past year, signing up customers like Dropbox, Stripe… Read More
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