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ZenPayroll Is Now Gusto, Adds Benefits To Take On Zenefits
Payroll startup ZenPayroll changed its name to Gusto today and is moving beyond payroll, into benefits such as health insurance and workers compensation.
Sound familiar? We’ve heard that cloud HR benefits company Zenefits plans to roll out a payroll service similar to the startup formerly known as ZenPayroll. Read More
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DWNLD, The Easy-Bake Oven For Apps, Picks Up $12M In Series A
DWNLD, the publishing platform that takes any website and seamlessly turns it into an app, has today announced the close of a $12 million Series A funding round led by Greylock Partners. The platform, which was created by cofounder and CEO Alexandra Keating and cofounder Fritz Lanman, allows any web publisher to easily transfer all of their content over to a native app, without any coding… Read More
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Hooked Is An App For Readers Who Think Fiction Should Be More Like Text Messaging
Will the next great novel be nothing more than a series of text messages?
Uh, maybe not, but there’s always room to experiment with new formats. That’s what husband-and-wife team Parag Chordia and Prerna Gupta are trying to do with their new startup Telepathic, which is launching its first app, Hooked. Read More
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Tapglue Wants To Make It Easy To Add Social Features To Your App
Tapglue is a Berlin-based startup that wants to make it easy for developers to build social into their app. The company, which exits private Beta today, provides an API and mobile SDK to help take care of the heavy-lifting inherent when integrating the social graph of exiting social networks, such as Facebook, and adding social networking features of your own. Read More
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Todoist Updates Its Web App With New Features And Design
Popular task management service Todoist has been hard at work on a new brand identity and a revamped web app. These two updates bring feature and design parity between the iOS, Android and web versions of the service. Explore Awesome Events Handpicked By Local Extroverts In DoStuff’s New App
Algorithms can’t tell you what to do tonight. You need a local who knows the scene, hears about all the events, and can tell you what’ll actually be fun. That’s why DoStuff hired over a hundred cool kids in cities across the country to power recommendations in its new event discovery iOS app. Hold on to your liver, it’s adventure time. Read More
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Vungle Launches A Premium Marketplace Where Video Advertisers Can Find The Top Apps
Mobile video startup Vungle is launching a new private, programmatic marketplace for ads, which it’s calling Vungle Premium. CEO Zain Jaffer said that the company has already addressed a number of the issues facing brand advertisers on mobile, but it hasn’t tackled “the fact that app charts change on a daily basis, which is a huge problem if you have to make buying decisions… Read More
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Uber Is Appealing Judge’s Recent Class Action Ruling
Uber is appealing U.S. District Judge Edward Chen’s recent ruling that a case against the car-hailing startup can proceed as a class action lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reports. This comes as no surprise, given that Uber said it would likely appeal the judge’s decision. When the ruling came out earlier this month, Uber lawyer Ted Boutrous said the case is based on… Read More
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Launching Startups The Kogi Way: Three Lessons From The Food Truck Pioneer
Many founders ask me for advice on their latest startup. Of all the things I’ve learned, some of the most compelling tips come from starting a business out of an old truck. When I joined the founding team of Kogi BBQ with Chef Roy Choi in 2008, all we had was a food truck and “seed funding” from a maxed-out credit card. We had no idea that it would change the entire food… Read More
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TC Cribs: A Look Inside Lyft’s Quirky, Hot Pink HQ
We enter the land of ride-sharing startup Lyft on this week’s episode of Cribs. Lyft’s San Francisco headquarters are a bit like entering Willy Wonka’s factory – if it were painted head-to-toe in hot pink. Large mop-like displays in Lyft’s signature hue greet visitors to the 66,000 square-foot space on the edge of San Francisco’s Mission district. Fuzzy… Read More
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