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Legacy Republic Acquires Yarly To Build Up Its Workforce For Digitizing Family Photos
Legacy Republic, which is building a freelance workforce to help families digitize their photos and videos, just acquired competitor Yarly.
Digitization company YesVideo launched its Legacy Republic initiative last fall. Yarly, meanwhile, has a similar mission of digitizing photos or, as Legacy Republic Brian Knapp put it, of “preserving family memories.” Read More
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A Week In, Casey Neistat’s New App Beme Has 1.1M Videos Shared
Launched about a week ago, Beme is a new video-sharing app built by viral filmmaker Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett, former VP of Engineering at Tumblr and Hacker-in-Residence at betaworks. The duo raised $2.6 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, and have been working on the project together for about a year. Read More
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Why Tech Needs The Rooney Rule
Something that you’ve likely never heard uttered is that an industry should look to the National Football League (NFL) for social cues. The league has been scandal-ridden for decades, and has consistently fallen flat in its responses to domestic abuse, cheating, health and wellness and drug scandals. Read More
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Cloud-Based IDE Nitrous Names New CEO As It Starts Going After Professional Developers
Nitrous, the cloud-based code editor and integrated development environment that recently raised a $6.65 million funding round, today announced that it has brought on CoreOS and GitHub alum Alex Malinovich as its CEO. Nitrous’ current CEO and co-founder Andrew Solimine is now the company’s VP of product. Read More
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What A Truly Diverse Tech Company Would Look Like
A lot of the conversation about diversity in tech revolves mostly around the lack of women and minorities. But diversity is much more complex than that. It’s not just about increasing the number of women in tech. Nor is it just about increasing the number of blacks and other racial minorities at tech companies. Read More
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Tripping.com Raises $16 Million To Be The Kayak For Long-Term Rentals
Tripping.com, a search engine for long-term rental properties, has secured $16 million in new funding to build out its one-stop shop for vacation homes.
While a variety of hotel booking platforms, as well as Airbnb, have the short-term vacation rental space covered, Tripping is geared toward longer trips, with an average stay of just over a week. Read More
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Blogging Platform Medium Takes A Firmer Stance On Harassment And Revenge Porn
It’s time to clean up the Internet, apparently. Blogging platform Medium this week joined Google and Microsoft, as well as other social platforms including Twitter, Facebook, and more recently Reddit, in taking a firmer stance on how it will handle online harassment, including the posting of confidential and personal information and revenge porn. Read More
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Vero Launches A “Relationship-First” Social Network
The creators of Vero are betting that there’s room for a new kind of social network — one that’s a bit more attuned to the nuances of real-world relationships.
Like other social media services, Vero allows users to share movies, music, photos and so on. Where it gets a little different is in the privacy around that sharing. Read More
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Yozio Raises $7M Series A To Help Apps Gain Users Through Organic Channels
Yozio, which helps developers acquire more mobile users without spending tons of money on app-install ads, will expand its growth platform after landing a $7 million Series A. The round was led by Foundation Capital, with participation from firms including Illuminate Ventures, Webb Investment Network, and AME Cloud Ventures. Read More
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Restaurant Delivery Startup Deliveroo Raises $70M Series C
Deliveroo, the ‘on-demand’ startup that offers food delivery from premium restaurants that don’t traditionally offer a take-out service, appears to be on somewhat of a roll. Today the company is disclosing $70 million in new funding, money it plans to use for further international expansion. Read More
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