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Snapchat Replaces “Best Friends” With Friend Emojis, Adds Low-Light Camera
It was always weird that Snapchat exposed who you snapped with most in the “Best Friends” list, so today the app is ditching that for a new private way to see who you’re closest to. Only you will see these new Friend Emojis on your screen of incoming snaps. Here’s what Snapchat’s Friend Emojis mean: – Gold Heart – You’re #1 Best Friends –… Read More
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Slidejoy Snags $1.2 Million To Put News And Ads On Android Lockscreens
While some among the handful of startups exploiting the revenue-generating opportunities that come from using an Android phone’s lock screen as an advertising medium have since refocused their efforts, one of the early movers in this space, Slidejoy, has just closed on its first round of funding. With $1.2 million in outside investment, Slidejoy will now continue to develop its app… Read More
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FacePay?
What if buying something was as easy as Liking it? You’d probably buy a lot more, and buy it through whoever made it so damn simple. Becoming that conduit for payments means more than racking up transaction fees. For the portal to purchase influences not just how you buy, but what. Today, purchases are fragmented, and so too is that influence. We buy online and offline. Cash, Credit,… Read More
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Wag Launches Its On-Demand Dog Walking App In San Francisco
Wag, a startup that helps connect pet owners and dog walkers with a mobile app, has touched down in San Francisco. The company, formerly only in operation in Los Angeles, recently added the tip of the Bay Area as its second locale. Wag vets dog walkers using background checks, and then insures their activities. Dog owners can schedule walks for their dogs, and track their pooch… Read More
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Publicize Aims To Turn Its New “Reporter-In-Residence” Program Into A Bigger Trend
Startup PR firm Publicize is launching a new program for what it calls Reporters-in-Residence.
Publicize founder and CEO Conrad Egusa said he was inspired by the Entrepreneur-in-Residence programs offered by venture capital firms, where former startup founders and execs are put on the payroll to help the firm’s portfolio while also coming up with new ideas. Read More
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Tinder’s First Advertisement Is One Big Experiment
This week, Tinder unveiled its first ad in the form of a video promoting Budweiser’s next #Whatever, USA campaign. The video ad will show up for Tinder users the next time they open the app, but much like Instagram’s foray into advertising, Tinder ensures that rolling out advertising on the platform will go slow. Within a few swipes, users will land on Bud Light’s profile with… Read More
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Do Something Epic With Everfest’s Festival Finder
No one on their death bed says “all the things I could have owned?!” It’s “all the things I could have done?!” The world is shifting from a material culture to an experiential culture. Many of our most prized possessions like photographs and music have become digitized. We now have the Internet to find experiences, devices to capture them, and social networks to… Read More
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Y Combinator-Backed PicnicHealth Nabs $2 Million In Seed To Build Out A Virtual Healthcare Records Platform
PicnicHealth launched out of Y Combinator last summer with a service that promised to help chronically ill patients gather all their records from all their doctors and put them in one easy-to-access online profile. The startup has now raised $2 million in seed funding to build that service out and hire more team members. Read More
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What The Kapors Have Learned From Years Of Working On Diversity in Tech
Almost one year ago, Google released its diversity data, kicking off a wide-ranging industry conversation about why tech companies and venture capital firms are so unrepresentative of the racial and gender make-up of the rest of the U.S. Dozens of other companies followed Google’s suit while the issue of gender in the venture world has been on the front burner with the Ellen Pao… Read More
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UK’s myDogBuddy Merges With Spain’s Bibulu To Become Europe’s Largest Dog Sitting Marketplace
The U.K.’s myDogBuddy, which offers a marketplace that connects dog owners with local dog sitters, has merged with its Spanish rival Bibulu, to become what it claims is the largest offering of its kind, citing a combined 10,000 local dog sitters registered with the platform. The merger also sees a rebranding of the combined entity to the much simpler DogBuddy.com domain. Read More
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