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The Best Song Is Tinder For Music Discovery
Do you end up listening to the same song over and over on your favorite music streaming service? Meet The Best Song a nifty little app to quickly discover new songs and add them to your Spotify or Deezer collection. This app combines free music samples and curated playlists with Tinder-like gestures to quickly grind through dozens of songs. Read More
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Hold Up, Millennials, We Old Dogs Still Know A Few Tricks
In my previous TechCrunch article you learned that I’m a big fan of the millennial generation. A really big fan. So much so, and as a result of the article, I’ve been informed by several individuals (both publicly and privately) that I am a millennial trapped in a GenX body. I’ll take that. Read More
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GoPro Unveils Plan To Allow Users To License Their Videos
GoPro is taking steps to make some cash on the back of the vast troves videos its users are creating. The company just announced a platform that lets content creators license videos to brands and media companies. With this platform, your GoPro videos could make their way into advertisements and get you (and GoPro) paid. Read More
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Where Are They Now? Battlefield Alumn FOVE Has Successful Kickstarter
We got our first look at FOVE, the virtual reality headset that’s controlled by eye movement, at Disrupt SF 2014. FOVE was one of the entrants in the Startup Battlefield, and while the company didn’t win the competition, there were definitely some good times ahead for the company that started in the academic collaboration facility at the University of Tokyo. Read More
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Prismatic Pivots To B2B, Packaging Its Content Interest Graph Into APIs For Different Verticals
The market for news reading apps got a little more crowded earlier this year when Apple dropped into the scene with Apple News. But as of today, it’s thinning out a little bit once more. Prismatic — a company that developed a way to suggest things to you to read based on what your friends and connections were liking and reading, using some clever algorithms to surface unexpected… Read More
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Chris O’Neill Named CEO, Phil Libin Executive Chairman In Evernote Executive Shuffle
Evernote has made some changes at the top of the company today, naming Chris O’Neill its new CEO and announcing that Phil Libin will be sliding over to the Executive Chairman spot, where he can be “more more actively involved with shaping the next generation of Evernote products.” Read More
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Backed By Y Combinator, Maderight Matches Fashion Designers With Ethical Factories Around The World
Getting apparel made in other countries is like playing a game of telephone. As designers and manufacturers ship prototypes back and forth for weeks, problems ranging from poor quality control to logistic headaches often arise. More seriously, it’s difficult for companies in the U.S. to make sure factories treat workers fairly. Maderight, which recently launched out of Y Combinator, wants… Read More
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Call9 Delivers On-Demand Doctors In Emergency Situations
Call9, a telemedicine startup in Y Combinator’s Spring 2015 cohort, is launching out of beta today to connect patients in emergency situations to doctors on demand. If a nursing home patient exhibits warning signs of a heart attack, a nurse calls 911 and waits with the patient for an ambulance to arrive. The average ambulance wait time is 15 minutes, according to Call9 co-founder… Read More
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Digital Measurement Service SimilarWeb Acquires Content Discovery Platform Swayy
SimilarWeb, a service that offers tools to measure website traffic and related mobile app data, has now made its second acquisition with the purchase of Tel Aviv-based content discovery platform Swayy. The deal, which was for less than $5 million, was largely aimed at acquiring the team’s talent and expertise to aid with the development of SimilarWeb’s own content recognition… Read More
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After Raising $275M, FanDuel Acquires App Developer Kotikan
Only last week fantasy sports startup (although it was started in 2007…) FanDuel raised $275 million in a Series E round, taking the total capital raised to date to $363 million. That put it into the $1 billion valuation bracket, making one of the few startups out of Scotland to achieve the ‘unicorn’ status. Read More
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