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Flash Sales Site SportPursuit Hires Former UK Adidas And Reebok MD As Chief Sales Officer
The UK’s SportPursuit, a 1 million member-strong flash sales site for sports and outdoor gear, appears to have made somewhat of a hiring coup. It’s recruited Kath Smith, ex UK managing director for both Adidas and Rebook. Nudge Is A Dashboard For All Your Fitness Wearables And Apps
Despite not being a particularly fitness-obsessed person, I’ve fallen for the fitness tracking trend. My main fitness tracker is a Jawbone UP24, but I also keep Moves iOS app turned on and occasionally use RunKeeper. The hassle of keeping on top of all my fitness scores is why I was interested in trying out Nudge. Read More
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For A Little While, I Felt Like The Richest Man In Lyft-Ville
Here’s a fun way to start your weekend: Getting a message from Lyft about the fact that you have $1,275 worth of free ride credits. No, that’s not a typo, and yes, that’s really a message that I got on Firday evening. Now technically, I knew about those credits already, because after the “will they/won’t they” drama of Lyft’s launch in New York, I was… Read More
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Sympler Offers An Easy Way To Create Fun, Music-Centric Videos
Co-founders Ben Jenkins and Alexander Kane swung by the TechCrunch office recently to show off Sympler, their new video app for iOS. Asked why the world needs yet another app for creating videos on your iPhone, Jenkins argued that “the ones that are out there aren’t really helping people do it.” Specifically, apps like Vine and Instagram don’t tackle video editing,… Read More
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Unseen, An Anonymous Photo Sharing App For Colleges, Raises $2.1 Million
An Austin-based company called Bearch has raised $2.1 million in seed funding for its anonymous photo-sharing app Unseen, which has been trending on college campuses. Investors in the round include Rackspace co-founder Dirk Elmendorf, Indeed.com CEO Rony Kahan, CEO of Woodbolt International Doss Cunningham, and several other angel investors. Read More
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Which Apps Are Eating Your Battery? Normal Will Tell You.
Somewhere, somehow, maybe less than a year after I got the latest version of my iPhone, its battery would mysteriously deplete in about half a day. I wasn’t really sure why. But now I can find out. There’s a new app called ‘Normal’ out from a pair of Stanford Ph.Ds in computer science named Adam Oliner and Jacob Leverich, who are turning some postdoctoral research into… Read More
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YC-Backed Neptune.io Wants To Help Network Admins Sleep By Fixing Common Issues Automatically
Nearly every network administrator has been on night duty when their pager buzzes or they get a smartphone alert of a network issue, one they’ve fixed a hundred times before, yet still forcing them to get out of bed to deal with it. YC backed startup, Neptune.io wants to change that by providing automated fixes for common networking problems, allowing those on-call admins to sleep just… Read More
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Just a few months back, Planday raised $3.75 million from Nordic VC Creandum. And today another European company in the workforce management software space has picked up fresh capital. Quinyx, headquartered in Stockholm, has received backing from Alfvén & Didrikson. 
With sharing services like Uber and Lyft becoming more and more popular, it’s no surprise to see these ideas branch out into different services such as moving. 
Now this is a startup crowdfunding campaign that I can get behind.