The U.K. competition watchdog has given a provisional green light to the $19 billion acquisition of mobile carrier EE by incumbent telco BT. Read More
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Household Expenses App Splittable Raises $1.2M Funding
Splittable, the London-based startup that makes an app to help manage and share household expenses, has raised $1.2 million in new funding to further build out the software and increase marketing. Mobile Messaging For Marketers 101
If you’re a consumer-brand marketer, you’ve no doubt given thought to running a marketing campaign or having a presence on a mobile messaging app. After all, every consumer is increasingly using mobile messaging as their portal to mobile. It’s sticky and lends itself to repeat sessions, boasting the highest retention and engagement rates of other apps on average. So if… Read More
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Twitter Hopes To Appeal To A Younger Crowd With This New Fast-Paced TV Commercial
During Twitter’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Jack Dorsey let us know that the company would be running a new TV commercial during the World Series.
As The Verge points out, this commercial was done by the same group that did Apple’s 1984 campaign. While it’s not the first commercial by Twitter, it does look like the beginnings of an actual “campaign.” Twitter’s… Read More
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Barry Silbert Launches Digital Currency Group With Funding From MasterCard, Others
Less than a week after selling SecondMarket to NASDAQ, Barry Silbert has announced the official launch and and first round of funding for Digital Currency Group. Talking onstage to TechCrunch Editor John Biggs today at Money 20/20, Silbert announced that the company has closed a round from Bain Capital Ventures, Transamerica Ventures, FirstMark Capital, MasterCard, and New York Life,… Read More
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ADP Drops Lawsuit Against Human Resources Startup Zenefits
The legacy payroll company ADP on Tuesday dropped its defamation lawsuit against its quickly growing competitor, Zenefits. In a major victory for the startup, a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice. Per the terms of the settlement, ADP stated it has no reason to believe problems exist with the security of Zenefits software. Zenefits… Read More
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Why Apple Pay Is Our Best Hope To Stop Online Fraud
Heists used to be so much effort — you’d need a gang, machine guns, a getaway car and long, meticulous planning. Nowadays, all you need is a couch, a laptop and some stolen data. When the barrier to entry is so low, it’s no surprise that online fraud is a huge problem. In fact, according to the authoritative annual True Cost of Fraud report from LexisNexis/Javelin Group,… Read More
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48 Million In iPhone Sales Leads Apple’s Q4 2015 Earnings
Apple continued at a good clip in iPhone 6 and 6s sales during its fourth fiscal quarter 2015, hitting 48 million units sold. That’s up from 47.5 million in Q3 and a year-over-year increase from Q4 2014 at about 39 million units sold, though slightly down from analysts’ expectations at 48.5 million. Read More
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Dorsey: “Twitter Is Getting Easier To Use Every Single Week,” TV Ad To Premiere During World Series
During Twitter’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Jack Dorsey was joined by COO Adam Bain and CFO Anthony Noto. The call was broadcasted live on Periscope for the second straight time. Growth didn’t appease Wall Street, but it’s early days for some of Twitter’s latest product changes, including Moments and Polls. The company continues to tout the over billion people who are… Read More
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Apple Q4 Earnings Live Blog
Apple is reporting its third-quarter earnings after the bell this afternoon. This will be the first quarter where the company’s new iPhones have been on sale — though only for a few weeks or so. Nevertheless, Apple’s earnings reports are always huge news for the company’s stock, which has basically gone back to where it started at the beginning of the year in recent… Read More
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