Wattpad teams up with Turner and Tales from the Crypt
Social publishing platform Wattpad is announcing one of the first partnerships as part of its new Wattpad Studios program — the company has struck a deal with Turner to help generate ideas for shows on Turner networks, starting with the upcoming Tales from the Crypt revival on TNT. Wattpad Studios head Aron Levitz said it’s too early to reveal all the details of the partnership, but… Read MoreSnapchat paves way to IPO with Ads API and inserts between stories
Snapchat is ready to make the big bucks that could let it go public thanks to a slew of important updates to its ads offering. They’ll give advertisers the spotlight, buying flexibility, return on investment opportunities, and measurement to throw huge budgets at Snapchat’s 150 million daily users. Snapchat’s Big Ads Announcements Snap Ads Between Stories – There will… Read MoreAnnouncing the judges for the TechCrunch Pitch-off in Austin
As Rafiki once said, it is time. The Austin Meetup goes down tomorrow, and we couldn’t be more excited to have some of the brightest new startups in the area pitch on our stage. And now, with great pleasure, it’s time to introduce the judges who will join us on stage and help us determine a winner. Without any further ado: Joshua Baer, Capital Factory Joshua Baer helps people… Read MoreNameless.tv tries to bring that live TV thrill to online video
Nameless.tv is bringing some of the communal feeling of watching regular TV — you know, the sense that people are watching along with you – to the experience of streaming online videos. “Watching videos alone is boring,” argued CEO Kareem Rahma. The New York-based startup was previously known as NYC.TV, and it was supposed to recapture the “anything goes”… Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
Toronto is poised to become the next great producer of tech startups
I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Toronto and learned there’s more to this city than Drake calling it home and the recent successes of their professional sports teams. We made one investment there in 2015 and the experience — with the company specifically and the city generally — has been overwhelmingly positive. Indeed, the city has all the markings of a world-class… Read More What Pinterest learned in two years working on its search engine
About two years ago, Pinterest launched a different flavor of search engine called Guided Search. Instead of relying on deep data on the user, it would create a network of related topics that users can dive deep into. The idea being that a search like “iPhone” would net additional categories, like “design,” “hardware” and such. Now Guided Search is about… Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
See you next week in Warsaw and Krakow
Looking forward to seeing you all in Warsaw and Krakow. There will be much rejoicing and smalec. It is my understand that you all are watching “football” matches in the “Eurozone Cup” (Americans know nothing about “soccer”) but I think it’s a great opportunity to network in Polska and practice your pitching. The Warsaw event will be held on June 13… Read More UNU set to forecast tech trends after accurate Oscars, Kentucky Derby predictions
Can AI outpace the expertise of vaunted futurists like Mary Meeker or Ray Kurzweil? The artificial intelligence system called UNU is slated to answer questions tomorrow about technology and its long-term impact on humanity via a Reddit AMA (“ask me anything” interview). The same system accurately predicted Oscars winners, and the top four horses to win at the Kentucky Derby… Read More
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Predicting the next Slack: Finding sticky cloud apps with cult-like followings
While it seemingly came out of nowhere, Slack’s meteoric rise was no coincidence. Between its early focus on winning over developers who quickly became incredibly effective evangelists and its aggressive moves to integrate with other popular business apps, Slack provided a distinct model for others to follow. So who is following such a model, and what does their growth look like? Read More Lollicam is a real-time mobile video tool for adding cinematic effects to selfies
When will teens get tired of taking selfies? Probably never given the myriad ways they can augment what nature gave them thanks the power of the smartphone in their pocket. And YC-backed Lollicam is another app to add to the teen face morphing arsenal. Read MoreWinnie helps parents find family-friendly places, share their experiences
A new mobile app called Winnie is launching today to make parents’ lives a little easier, by offering information about nearby kid-friendly places, as well as detailing what sort of facilities for families a location may have – like stroller access, quiet areas to nurse, changing tables, restrooms, and more. The idea is to make going out with your little ones less stressful… Read MoreUber’s Scheduled Rides feature lets you request cars up to 30 days in advance
Less than a month after Lyft launched scheduled trips, Uber is doing the same thing starting today with the worldwide roll-out of Scheduled Rides. Now, you can schedule your car from 30 minutes up to 30 days in advance — but only for uberX. Lyft, on the other hand, only lets you schedule rides up to 24 hours in advance. I personally don’t see when I would ever schedule a ride… Read MoreUber opens RUSH API to everyone
Uber has today announced the public launch of its UberRUSH API, letting any developer offer delivery of their products through Uber. UberRush launched back in October of 2015, offering same-day delivery of items through the app. It was a basic courier service, with deliveries via both Uber cars and bike messengers. In January, the company took it a step further with the launch of a private… Read MoreDeepak Chopra launches Jiyo, a wellness-focused mobile app
Deepak Chopra, a leading figure in the alternative health movement, is moving into the mobile app business with the launch of Jiyo. Chopra and his co-founder Poonacha Machaiah have been talking about Jiyo for a while, but today the app is generally available on iOS and Android. We got a quick demo yesterday, with Machaiah explaining that one of the goals is “no typing”. Using data… Read MoreBlippar redesigns its visual search app with a focus on discovery
Blippar, the augmented reality app that gives you a deeper look at the world around you, has today unveiled a redesigned version of the app that focuses on discovery. Blippar’s visual search tool can recognize hundreds of millions of items, at least on a category level. Some of these items are simply recognized as ‘building’ or ‘skirt’, whereas other items can… Read MoreTravelPerk gets $7M Series A to take the pain out of booking business travel
Barcelona based TravelPerk, a business travel booking platform founded last year by a team of ex-Booking.com employees, has closed a $7 million Series A round of financing led by Spark Capital. Read MorePleo is a company card that claims to automate expense reports
A new player Pleo is throwing its wares into the company expenses ring with a new company expenses card — both virtual and an actual physical card — that claims to automate expense reports and enable SMEs to take more control over their employees’ expenditure. Read MoreMeet the newest AngelPad startups, and the tech they built to cure business headaches
Yesterday in San Francisco, AngelPad held its 10th Demo Day, a graduation of sorts for the enterprise startups admitted into and backed by the accelerator. The accelerator, run by husband and wife team Thomas Korte and Carine Magescas, has realized at least one solid exit already in the adtech startup MoPub, which sold to Twitter for $350 million in stock in the fall of 2013. Companies that… Read More
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