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VigLink Acquires Content Promotion Startup LinkSmart, Adds Another $2M In Funding
VigLink just announced that it’s acquiring Boulder, Colo.-based startup LinkSmart. Aside from the obvious connection of having “link” in both company names, VigLink founder and CEO Oliver Roup pointed to LinkSmart’s focus on helping online publishers promote to their own content, whether it’s an important article or a sponsored story. That complements… Read More
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Oxygen Accelerator Teams Up With Fiedler Capital To Bring CEE Startups To U.K.
It’s widely thought that Central And Eastern Europe (CEE) provides some of the best technical talent in Europe, while the U.K. — and London particularly — is not only one of the largest tech hubs in the continent but, arguably, has some of the best access to VCs and acts as a bridge to other markets. Hoping to capitalise on the two is Fiedler Capital, a CEE-based VC, and… Read More
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Muzik Starts Selling Headphones With One-Touch Social Sharing, Raises $10M In Funding
Audio accessory startup Muzik is launching its product after two years of design and gearing up production, making the Muzik smart over-ear headphones available to consumers today for $299 and a ship date ahead of the holidays. The headphone maker has also raised an additional $10 million to help bring its product to market. The smart part of the Muzik headphones revolves around four hot… Read More
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Built In Brooklyn: FlyCleaners Saves You A Trip To The Laundromat
For this episode of Built in Brooklyn, producer Steve Long and I visited the Bushwick garage of FlyCleaners, an on-demand laundry service — and Steve even went for a ride in one of those blue FlyCleaners vans (they’ve become a common sight in Williamsburg, my neighborhood of Brooklyn). With FlyCleaners, instead of having to bring your laundry to the laundromat or dry cleaner, you… Read More
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Let’s Pivot Again — Handmake Me Is An Ethical Marketplace For Handmade Gifts
Call it a pivot. Or failing and starting over. But, either way, some of the most successful startups and tech companies have done it. After all, the entrepreneurial road can be a long and winding one. The latest example to cross my in-box is Handmake Me, an “ethical marketplace” born out of multiple pivots by the team behind Hobzy. Specifically, the U.K. startup has re-launched… Read More
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Homescreen Is Betaworks’ Latest Experiment-Turned-Product
When someone picks up their phone to take a peek, I can’t help but take a peek, too. Whether it’s a perfect stranger on the train or the girl I’ve had a crush on for months, I can’t help but look.
With the latest product out of betaworks, you can take that curiosity to a whole new level. Read More
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Goldbely Debuts An App That Lets You Order Gourmet, Regional Cuisine From Anywhere In The U.S.
Goldbely, the Y Combinator-backed startup that lets you order gourmet foods from around the U.S. is now on mobile. The company just launched its first app with Goldbely for iOS, which also includes a newly added next-day shipping feature for getting its tasty treats more quickly than before – whether that’s a real Philly cheesesteak, deep dish pizza from Chicago, Maryland crab… Read More
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Snapchat’s Newest Money Maker Is A Sponsored Our Story For Samsung And The AMAs
Snapchat took its first shot at monetizing its Our Stories collaborative livestream feature tonight with a Samsung-branded look at The American Music Awards. We were tipped off to the AMA Our Story, and Snapchat confirms to me that it was paid by Samsung for the promotion. The AMA Our Story intersplices “Sponsored”-tagged Samsung photos and videos from behind the scenes at the… Read More
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Whitney Wolfe, Other Former Tinder Employees To Launch Direct Competitor Called Bumble
Whitney Wolfe, an early employee at Tinder who sued the company for sexual harassment and workplace discrimination, has joined up with two other early Tinder employees, Chris Gulczynski and his parter Sarah Mick, to launch a direct competitor to Tinder called Bumble, sources tell TechCrunch. According to the app’s Facebook page, Bumble is a social discovery app that “promotes a… Read More
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Yahoo Acquires Photo Startup Cooliris
Photo app-maker Cooliris just announced that it has been acquired by Yahoo. The company was founded in 2006 and was initially known for creating a “3D wall” for navigating photos and other media content. More recently, its focus shifted to an app (also called Cooliris) that allowed users to browse photos from across services like Facebook, Instagram, and Flickr. It also launched… Read More
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