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Private Social Networking Service Grou.ps Regroups To Focus On Health And Fitness
White label social networking service Grou.ps is now closed for new signups as the company is changing its strategy from being a general private social networking service to focusing solely on the health and fitness industry. The company is also changing its name from Grou.ps to GymGroups. Grou.ps was one of the first private social networking services on the market — together with… Read More
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Stripe’s John Collison Talks Stripe Relay And Bringing New Tools To Retailers
Stripe yesterday rolled out a set of new tools called Stripe Relay geared at helping retailers essentially put buy buttons in multiple platforms. This offers retailers a big opportunity to reduce the clunkiness of a buying experience that requires jumping through mobile websites, according to Stripe’s John Collison. We sat down with him to find out more about Relay and how the company… Read More
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Pushup Social Adds Social Media To All The Things
Deep in the wilds of St. Louis, a little company run by Dan Lohman, Yomi Toba, and Jan Christian Andersen wants to add all the social media things to all the web things. How? With Pushup Social. Pushup Social essentially adds a social media page to your web page. For example, the Endangered Wolf Center created a social community that lets them share photos, Instagram content, Tweets, and… Read More
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Postmates And Walgreens Team Up For On-Demand Delivery
Walgreens just announced an official partnership with on-demand startup Postmates to offer same-day delivery for, initially, a flat delivery fee of $4.99. The on-demand delivery service via Postmates will be available at 600 Walgreens (known as Duane Reade in some parts of the U.S.) stores throughout the country. Postmates has always offered on-demand deliveries of items sold at Walgreens,… Read More
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On-Demand Delivery Service Quiqup Picks Up Backing From Delivery Hero And Global Founders Capital
London’s Quiqup, an on-demand delivery service that competes with Ingite alumni Jinn and U.S. Postmates (if and when it launches in the U.K.), has raised a “multi-million pound” Series A round from take-out ordering service Delivery Hero and Rocket Internet’s investment fund Global Founders Capital. Delivery Hero, of course, is also partially owned by Rocket Internet… Read More
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BTCChina Rebrands To BTCC
BTCChina, China’s original bitcoin exchange run by Bobby Lee, has rebranded to BTCC.
“We’re excited to introduce a new logo and identity that modernizes and reinvigorates the BTCC experience,” said Samson Mow, BTCC’s Chief Operating Officer in a release. “The new BTCC logo retains some original elements as a nod to our heritage, but also conveys a bold… Read More
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Limejump Raises £1.4M To Use Big Data To Transform U.K. Energy Market
Limejump is a classic example of a startup bringing a big data and cloud-based solution to a legacy market, and in doing so has the potential to transform that market. Soothe, An On-Demand Massage Service, Acquires Unwind Me
Soothe, which lets customers book in-home massages, has acquired competitor Unwind.me. Unwind.me took part in Y Combinator’s summer 2014 batch and its other backers include 500 Startups and Slow Ventures. Accel Partners Looks To Map The Marketing Technology Ecosystem
Accel Partners wants to solve the question for startups, “Who does this marketing thing I need?” It’s doing that with an online tool called Growthverse, an interactive visualization of companies in the marketing technology ecosystem. It launched earlier this year but since receiving a lot of feedback, Accel Partners has refined it with a big update today into what it hopes is… Read More
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Panama Lets You Share Anonymous Location-Based Video
Though there are plenty of video-based social networks out there, few are focused more on the content than the following. But Panama, a new app launched from Ocho cofounder Jonathan Swerdlin, is looking to flip that model on its head. Panama, essentially, is a platform for short-form video that is based solely on location, with no identification for the creator of that video content.… Read More
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