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JW Player Brings Its Video Player To Android Apps
JW Player, the streaming video company that (in the words of its president Chris Mahl) helps online publishers find “life after YouTube, or life beyond YouTube,” has made a big move onto mobile with the general release of its Android SDK. The player already worked in mobile web browsers, so it wasn’t entirely absent from Android. But this will allow publishers to include… Read More
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Reserve Raises $15M To Help With Your Restaurant Reservations And Payments
Reserve, the app promising to serve as your “personal dining concierge,” is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding.
The company was incubated at Expa, the startup studio created by StumbleUpon and Uber co-founder Garrett Camp. The app launched on iOS last fall. Read More
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Fates Forever-Maker Hammer & Chisel Raises Additional Funding From Tencent, Benchmark
Hammer & Chisel, the core gaming startup founded by Jason Citron, an early pioneer in smartphone gaming, just raised additional funding from Tencent, Benchmark Capital and YouWeb’s 9+. Citron previously founded and then sold mobile-social gaming network OpenFeint for $104 million. Hammer & Chisel’s first game was a MOBA or multiplayer online battle arena title called… Read More
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Urban Engines Takes The Power Of Its Transit Platform To Consumers With A Smart Offline Maps App
As a part-time urban planning nerd, I love visualizations of buses, trains and cars pulsating through cities. Now with more data available through smartphones, emergent logistics platforms like Uber and eventually Internet-connected and self-driving cars, it’s inevitable that software will become indispensable in managing and making mass transit more efficient. Read More
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Snapchat Cuts Off Sharing From Music Video App Mindie
Hackers have screwed Snapchat several times and now the startup is taking aggressive action to keep it from happening again. Yesterday, Snapchat cut off access from music video sharing app Mindie citing its security policy. The company confirmed the enforcement to me, and said it reset the Snapchat passwords of anyone who’d given Mindie their credentials. Unfortunately, that’s left… Read More
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Scribd Adds Comics From Marvel, IDW, And Others To Its Subscription E-Book Service
In case getting unlimited access to an enormous library of e-books and audiobooks for $8.99 a month wasn’t enough for you, Scribd is announcing today that it’s expanding into comic books.
Specifically, Scribd is adding more than 10,000 comics and graphic novels from publishers including Marvel, Archie, Boom! Studios, Dynamite, IDW/Top Shelf, and Valiant. Read More
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Prezi Launches Nutshell, An App To Turn Photos Into ‘Mini-Movies’
Prezi’s online presentation software already offers a popular alternative to creating otherwise tedious and visually uninspiring PowerPoint presentations, but now it seems the startup wants in on the consumer ‘video’ sharing trend. Taking the same dynamic zooming tech used to spruce up Prezi presentations, the company has created a new app called Nutshell. Read More
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Pitch Your Startup In The TC Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM
There are a few ways to get a chance to pitch your startup to TC editors, investors, and a breath-caught audience all at the same time. You could apply to be in the Startup Battlefield at the world-famous TC Disrupt conference, held three times a year. You could apply to be in one of our regional TC pitch-offs (check out our upcoming Pitch-Offs in Atlanta and Boston on February 24 and February… Read More
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Kanvas’s Mobile Photo Sharing App Lets You Make Your Own GIFs, Flipbooks And More
Kanvas, a photo-sharing app designed to allow self-expression and creativity via simple tools for editing and enhancing photos, is relaunching today on the iOS App Store with a new version that the company likens to what a “mobile-first Tumblr” would look like, if it had been started today. Today the app, which has also just topped a million installs, offers the ability to post… Read More
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Email Marketing Startup Iterable Raises $1.2M
Iterable has raised $1.2 million for what it says is a comprehensive platform for email marketing.
CEO Justin Zhu told me that he came from Twitter, while his co-founder Andrew Boni came from Google — at both companies, they saw the impact that can email marketing can make, but they also saw some of the challenges that marketers can face trying to personalize and test campaigns. Read More
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