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GoSquared Launches People Analytics To Help Businesses Get A Better Understanding Of Customers
As GoSquared celebrates its 9th birthday — James Gill, James Taylor and Geoff Wagstaff started the company when they were just 14 — the London-based ‘startup’ is launching its most ambitious product to date. Apparently Super Bowl Fans Really Like Cars And Chips On Social Media
We’ve gotten to the point where pretty much every social media and advertising company has to release its own report on Super Bowl ad trends and effectiveness. One of the more interesting ones was a collaboration between Chute and Ditto. The two startups both work on visual content (Chute gives marketers tools for harnessing user-generated content like photos, while Ditto is more focused… Read More
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Once Reviled For A Screed On The Homeless, Greg Gopman Looks To Make Amends
I remember meeting Greg Gopman for the first time several years ago at a Facebook mobile hackathon. He had just moved from Miami and was in full-on hustler mode. Newcomers to the Valley are a varied sort. Some are idealists, spewing truisms from Steve Jobs keynotes. Some see stories about billion-dollar acquisitions and have pretty thinly-concealed ambitions of validation through funding… Read More
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‘Neflix For Lego’ Pley Launches A Kit Crowdsourcing Platform And Raises $10M
While Lego’s own crowdsourcing platform exists, letting users submit ideas for community voting, eventually resulting in some being made, the process is slow and somewhat difficult to navigate. Now Lego set sharing platform Pley is debuting a crowdsourced set creation platform called PleyWorld that can see a submission go from concept to shipping product in as little as two weeks,… Read More
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Pitch Your Startup In The TechCrunch Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM
TechCrunch Radio can’t stop, won’t stop. So you should just accept your fate and apply to be in the pitch-off. Or at the very least, tune in on Tuesday evenings to hang out with us. For those of you who don’t yet know, TechCrunch Radio is an hour-long weekly radio show hosted by myself and East Coast Editor John Biggs that airs on Sirius XM 102 Indie and 103 Insight. We… Read More
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Tired of Tindering? Couplelizer Says Date More, Swipe Less
Couplelize is a debutante dating service that’s taking a slightly different approach vs the existing playing field in a bid to stand out. Specifically it’s aiming to accelerate the ‘going on a date’ component of dating, rather than building a business out of encouraging singles to spend their time vicariously checking people out and checking out who visited/liked… Read More
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YellowPepper’s Mobile Wallet For LatAm Draws Another $19M From LIV Capital And Others
YellowPepper, a mobile virtual wallet startup aimed at the Latin American market, has closed $19 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to $34 million to date. The round was led by LIV Capital, a Mexican venture capital firm with approximately $130 million in assets under management. Also participating was Mexico Ventures, a program managed by Sun Mountain Capital… Read More
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Super Bowl 2015 Ads Are All About The Big (Mobile) Game
There were 49 new, nationally televised commercials that aired last night during Super Bowl XLIX. While most of them were for older, established brands, a handful of them were for Internet-first companies, and many of the rest featured technology in important ways.
But the most interesting thing? There were three advertisements for mobile games during one of the biggest “bricks and… Read More
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This Search Engine Wants More Human Input
Does the ever-increasing volume of digital information demand a more powerful search interface? One that allows for more complex queries to be formulated, and supports instances where the information being sought out is not necessarily something the user is aware of when they begin tapping on the keyboard? Read More
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Vine Introduces Vine Kids
Vine is today introducing a new layer of the app called Vine Kids. It’s meant to be a safe, kid-friendly space for a younger audience to play around with the app and watch vines. The feature pulls from the millions of Vines being created on the platform and chooses ones that are appropriate for children. The interface of the Kids section of the app has also been tailored to be more fun… Read More
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