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EU OKs Facebook’s $19B WhatsApp Acquisition, Clearing The Last Antitrust Hurdle
This just coming in: the EU has approved Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp — deciding that the two are “not close competitors”. WhatsApp today has 600 million users, while Facebook has 1.3 billion, with 300 million using its Facebook Messenger product. This marks closure for the last big regulatory hurdle that the social network needed to pass before… Read More
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Selfinception: Frontback Adds Selfie Comments
All your selfies are belong us. Popular photo-sharing app Frontback just received a major update. You will now be able to leave comments on a Frontback post — but not just text comments. With Frontback React, you take a selfie of your reaction and adds a few words. It’s perfectly in line with the deeply personal soul of the app. While I very irregularly post to Frontback, I open… Read More
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Marketing Automation For Mobile Company Appboy Grabs $15 Million More
Appboy, a marketing automation company for mobile apps has raised $15 million in Series B funding, in a round the company says was “oversubscribed.” Early Marketo investor InterWest Partners led the round, and is joined by existing investors Icon Venture Partners, Blumberg Capital, T5 Capital and IDG Ventures. As a part of the new funding, InterWest General Partner Doug… Read More
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Personalized News-Reading App Pipes Now Smartly Summarizes Articles, Without The Help Of Editors
A personalized news reading app, Pipes, is now offering summaries of news stories to save mobile readers time while trying to catch up on-the-go. This is a big shift for the app, which launched earlier this year to offer a more mainstream-friendly way of consuming news and other topical information from a variety of sources, without having to understand the technicalities of using RSS or… Read More
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YesVideo’s Legacy Republic Is Building A Freelance Workforce To Digitize Family Photos and Videos
YesVideo announced a new initiative today that aims to recruit an army of “Legacy Makers” to help digitize family photos and videos.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with YesVideo, the company was founded back in 1999 and focuses on converting videos (in formats like VHS and 8 millimeter film) to digital, then making the content available online and on DVD. With Legacy… Read More
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With A New “Experience Studio”, Echo Aims To Bring Its Social Media Curation To A Broader Audience
Echo is a startup that’s been helping big companies and their agencies create widgets that highlight social media conversations. Now, with the launch of a new product called the Echo Experience Studio, co-founder and Chief Product Officer Chris Saad said the company has expanded its technology and made it accessible to a much broader group of customers, including small businesses… Read More
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Science Inc.’s Refame Connects Influencers With Advertisers On Vine And Instagram
Startup studio Science Inc. is announcing its latest project — Refame, a marketing platform for social apps Vine and Instagram.
Science’s approach to startups is pretty diverse — it launches new companies, invests in others, and also acquires teams and products. In this case, it’s launching Refame as part of Science Growth Labs, the organization’s division for… Read More
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A New App Called Offtime Helps You Unplug Without Missing Out
Apparently, navel-gazing about how much time you’re spending on your phone is a thing now. We’ve already seen iOS apps like Moment and Check appear to shame you into self-restraint by alerting you to how many minutes you spend staring at your little screen every day, or how many times per day you pull out your phone and take a look. Now, it’s Android’s turn. A new… Read More
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Next-Generation Email Platform Inbox Rolls Out Open Source Apps, Details Its Hosted API Pricing
Inbox, the email startup founded by Dropbox and MIT alums offering modern APIs that allow developers to build new applications on top of email’s aging underpinnings, is today taking steps to make it even easier for developers to get started with the launch of open source email apps. The company is also announcing the pricing for its hosted version of the Inbox API for the first time… Read More
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Lost-Item Tracker Tile Raises $13 Million To Fund International Expansion, Android Release
Tile, the lost-item tracker that raised millions in crowdfunding wants to give objects a voice by connecting them to the web. To capitalize on the growing demand for Tile’s small, square-shaped devices that attach to bags, bikes, keychains and more, the company has raised $13 million in funding, in a $9.5 million Series A round led by GGV Capital, a firm known for its global ties, and… Read More
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