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Scratch, An E-Commerce App That Lets You Text Requests To Expert Shoppers, Raises $3.6 Million
A number of startups, including Magic, Operator, GoButler and Fetch, have been developing mobile shopping apps that function more like personal assistants, allowing users to submit commerce-related requests by voice or text for items ranging from products they want to purchase to airline tickets and more. Read More
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Witness Launches A Live-Streaming App That’s A Panic Button For The Mobile Age
Witness, the live-streaming app that serves as a panic button for the mobile age, debuted earlier this year at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 Hackathon, where it eventually went on to win the grand prize. Now the app is live in the App Store for the public to try, allowing users to broadcast their location, audio and video to a pre-defined set of emergency contacts. You can think of… Read More
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Convo Follows Its Desktop Revamp With New Mobile Apps
A week after launching new web and Mac desktop applications, collaboration is releasing new versions of its mobile apps, too. CEO Faizan Buzdar has said that the relaunches reflect an attempt to rebuild Convo “from the ground up,” and that the company would be bringing these changes to all its platforms. (The redesign hasn’t been a huge hit with the TechCrunch team, though… Read More
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YC-Backed Interviewed Uses Automated Simulations To Evaluate Job Candidates
Interviewed, launching from Y Combinator’s most recent batch of startups, is looking to help employees make better hiring decisions. It’s not uncommon for employers to be wowed by a candidate’s interview skills, only to find that their actual on-the-job skills are lacking. Interviewed fixes this issue by creating advanced simulations for job candidates who are interviewing… Read More
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Snapchat Redesign Moves “Discover” To Top Of Stories Tab
Snapchat just released a new update featuring a redesigned Story tab. The main change is that media brands featured in the Discover section (which previously required another tap or swipe to navigate to) are now displayed prominently at the top of the Stories list. Live stories (Snapchat curated stories from different live events) are also now at the top of the list.
This change will… Read More
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8sec, The Latest Startup From Investor Jérémie Berrebi, Aims To Develop A New Mobile Game Each Week
“8 seconds to pick up, impossible to put down,” reads the strap-line of new mobile game startup 8sec. The company, co-founded by serial investor and entrepreneur Jérémie Berrebi, sits at the extreme end of casual gaming. Its business model feels extreme, too, promising to release a new mobile game each week. Read More
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Support Center Software Ameyo Nabs $5M To Expand Into The U.S.
Ameyo, a Gurgaon-based startup that makes software for customer support and sales centers, has raised a Series A of $5 million from Forum Synergies. The company, which already has customers throughout Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, plans to use the capital to expand into the United States. Read More
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Accelerators Are The New Business School
It’s no secret that most startups fail. What’s a bit less obvious is that most startup accelerators also fail. While a few top-tier programs get the cream of the crop unicorns of the future, the hundreds of others struggle to attract teams that will produce the investment-grade companies on which their models so depend. Read More
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The Six Things The Most Productive People Do Every Day
I admit I stole this title. Part of being productive is to piggyback on the shoulders of greatness. So I decided to write down what six things I do every day that help me with productivity. They make work for you. Or not. They work for me, although I always need to improve. Read More
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Reddit Co-Founder Steve Huffman In For Reddit CEO Job, Pao Out
We’d been hearing that Steve Huffman, a co-founder of Reddit who also co-founded flight and hotel search startup Hipmunk, was being considered for the CEO job at Reddit. Now that move is confirmed. Huffman’s appointment follows turmoil at Reddit following the firing of Victoria Taylor, a community manager that the Reddit community relied on, last week. Y Combinator’s… Read More
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