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Andy Rubin explains his $300M bet on the future of hardware
Andy Rubin, the creator of Android — arguably the widest distributed operating system in the world — left Google a few years back to start a hardware incubator with a $300 million fund called Playground. Since then, he’s been pretty busy trying to envision the future of hardware. And that doesn’t just include robotics. At the Bloomberg technology conference he showed… Read More
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Crunchyroll-owner Ellation announces Vrv, a multi-channel, streaming video service
Digital media company Ellation is announcing a big push into streaming video with Vrv, which will offer a variety of channels aimed at gamers and other geeks.
Ellation is best known as the parent company of anime service Crunchryoll. Otter Media, the joint venture from Chernin Group and AT&T, acquired a majority stake in the company back in 2013 and invested another $22 million last… Read More
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Pinterest gets visitor retargeting and other new ad targeting tools
Starting today, advertisers will be able to advertise against Pinterest users that have visited their sites — giving retailers a powerful new tool that is available in other advertising suites that will help them follow users as they browse the internet (including on Pinterest). Read More
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User-generated content marketing platform Yotpo picks up $22M Series C
Yotpo, a platform that lets companies solicit content from their users and customers in the form of reviews, Q&As, and photos and videos, for use across various marketing channels, has picked up $22 million in Series C funding. Furniture resell marketplace Move Loot is getting acquired
Move Loot, the online secondhand furniture marketplace that offered a full-service pickup, delivery, storage and listing service for buyers and sellers, has been having a lot of issues recently. The company claims that an acquisition is in process and will complete in a few weeks, but declined to give further details on the buyer. In the meantime, customers have been left frustrated and… Read More
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Former Twitter VP Katie Jacobs Stanton takes on CMO role at genomics startup Color
Katie Jacobs Stanton has accepted the role of chief marketing officer at genomics startup Color. The former Twitter exec left her role at Twitter in February and considered a number of options before landing at the genetics services company. Wattpad teams up with Turner and Tales from the Crypt
Social publishing platform Wattpad is announcing one of the first partnerships as part of its new Wattpad Studios program — the company has struck a deal with Turner to help generate ideas for shows on Turner networks, starting with the upcoming Tales from the Crypt revival on TNT. Wattpad Studios head Aron Levitz said it’s too early to reveal all the details of the partnership, but… Read More
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Snapchat paves way to IPO with Ads API and inserts between stories
Snapchat is ready to make the big bucks that could let it go public thanks to a slew of important updates to its ads offering. They’ll give advertisers the spotlight, buying flexibility, return on investment opportunities and measurement to throw huge budgets at Snapchat’s 150 million daily users. Snapchat’s big ads announcements Snap Ads Between Stories – There will… Read More
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Toronto is poised to become the next great producer of tech startups
I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Toronto and learned there’s more to this city than Drake calling it home and the recent successes of their professional sports teams. We made one investment there in 2015 and the experience — with the company specifically and the city generally — has been overwhelmingly positive. Indeed, the city has all the markings of a world-class… Read More
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What Pinterest learned in two years working on its search engine
About two years ago, Pinterest launched a different flavor of search engine called Guided Search. Instead of relying on deep data on the user, it would create a network of related topics that users can dive deep into. The idea being that a search like “iPhone” would net additional categories, like “design,” “hardware” and such. Now Guided Search is about… Read More
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