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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Says Alibaba Spinoff Is Still On Track Despite Potential Tax Risks
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco today that potential changes in the way its Alibaba spinoff could be taxed would not be an issue as the company continues its proposed spinoff of its Alibaba assets. Yahoo shares fell sharply in May when there were reports that the IRS could change how it might tax spinoffs. That would affect Yahoo’s… Read More
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Dick Costolo Dances Around The Question Of Who Will Lead Twitter Next
Dick Costolo stepped down as Twitter’s CEO last week, and since then theories about who will lead Twitter next have flown throughout the Internet. Costolo, on stage at the Bloomberg Tech conference, still didn’t have a good answer about who would be running Twitter next — and emphasized that there is an active search for a new CEO. He announced he would be stepping down as… Read More
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Pinterest Releases A Small Update To Streamline Its Search Experience
Pinterest is releasing a small update to its search engine that’s designed to make the process a little simpler for its users. These updates are small, but even these little refinements bring Pinterest closer and closer to being a more powerful search engine that can be highly competitive and differentiated from other forms of search on the Internet. Guided Search, which launched in… Read More
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Announcing The Judges for The Austin And Seattle TC Pitch-Offs
TechCrunch is headed to Austin and Seattle next week, and we’re bringing the world-renowned TechCrunch Pitch-Off with us. But what is a pitch-off without expert judges to weigh in on the cities’ most talented startups? We’re pleased to announce that in Austin on June 23 we’ll be joined by Josh Baer of Capital Factory and Bumble CEO and cofounder Whitney Wolfe. In… Read More
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Improving Diversity Hiring In Tech
I see a lot of articles written by well-intentioned people about how tech companies want to attract more diverse candidates. Usually, I don’t get more than three sentences in before I read about how the organization is making an effort to attract talent from historically black colleges and universities. Read More
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Polish Startup Filmaster Sells To Samba TV For €1 Million
Filmaster, a movie recommendation engine built by a team in Warsaw, Poland, has sold to Samba TV for a little over €1 million. Filmaster was funded by HackFwd and HardGamma Ventures although the founders kept most of the company as it was sold.
Described as a service that offers movie recommendations using “its own proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning… Read More
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Scholly, An App For Finding Scholarships, Partners With State And Federal Programs
Scholly, the scholarship app best known for being featured on Shark Tank, recently announced multiple bulk purchases by both government and educational institutions.
Scholly works like this: After signing up, a student inputs basic information like race, GPA, and gender. The program then searches its database of over 20,000 scholarships and displays the ones for which the… Read More
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Dat Venture Opens Second Class For Startups Expanding Into The U.S.
For people who didn’t grow up in the U.S., navigating the American startup scene can be intimidating. Dat Venture, a Boston-based accelerator for international entrepreneurs, wants to change this. Dat, which is kicking off its second cohort today, has refashioned the traditional accelerator model into a program designed to lower the barriers for international entrepreneurs looking… Read More
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Philo Raises $10 Million From NEA, HBO & Others For Its On-Campus Internet TV Service
The way people watch TV in a multi-device world is changing, which has led a number of consumers – especially among the younger demographic – to cut the cord with traditional pay TV, or just never sign up in the first place. Philo is a startup that’s helping cable and satellite TV providers re-engage this audience at the university level with a live TV service offering… Read More
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Referral Marketing Startup Ambassador Raises $2.35M
Ambassador, a startup that helps companies like Spotify and T-Mobile manage their referral marketing programs, is announcing that it has raised $2.35 million in Series A funding. For those of you not up on your marketing lingo, referral marketing basically involves encouraging customers to promote your product to their friends and family, then rewarding them when their referrals pay off.… Read More
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