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Pst! Secret’s Android ETA Is “Two To Three Weeks”
Secret, the anonymish app du jour that’s enabling iOS users to thrill their own friends and people in their social circles by saying stuff freely, without having their own identity attached to the information they are sharing, is coming to Android in “a few weeks”. The ETA for the Secret Android app was revealed backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, by the… Read More
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An Awkward First Date Shot Through Google Glass
We as humans are terrible at expressing our desires. You never quite know what’s going on in someone’s head. We’re not so different from Google Glass in that way. It’s tough to tell what’s someone’s doing in that little prism screen. This short film combines the awkwardness of dating with the overly-intimate nature of Google’s face computer. But it also… Read More
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Coinbase Acquires YC-Backed Kippt To Beef Up Its Product, Design Talent
Coinbase, one of the biggest Bitcoin consumer wallets and merchant processing platforms in the world, just acquired Kippt, a two-person YC-backed startup that had been working on a platform to share and store content. Both companies, which came out of Y Combinator, had been collaborating informally for a long time. On the side, Kippt’s main designer Karri Saarinen had been doing a lot of… Read More
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Secret Is Working On A Private Chat Feature
Anonyfish has been the only way to move a Secret conversation offline or somewhere with real names. But anonymous sharing app Secret plans to release its own native private chat feature, founders David Bytow and Chrys Bader-Wechseler confirmed today on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Read More
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Salesforce Launches Its Social Studio For Marketing Collaboration And Custom Integrations
Salesforce.com says it's launching a new set of tools for marketers on social media designed to improve collaboration and integrate with third-party partners. The full name of the product is a bit of a mouthful — the Radian6 + Buddy Media Social Studio. However, it points to the way that Salesforce has created its social media strategy through startup acquisitions. (That's even clearer when… Read More
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Mobile Social Networking App Skout Acquires Nightlife App Nixter
Skout, a social networking app that’s backed by $22 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, just acquired nightlife app Nixter. Skout’s CEO Christian Wiklund (pictured above) said he pursued the deal to find a better way to marry offline and online interactions in Skout’s app with real-world events. While Skout is an app that helps connect strangers all over the… Read More
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Alignable Is A Social Network For Local Business Owners
With all the handwringing about the future of local business, a startup called Alignable aims to connect those businesses and help them work together. The company was co-founded by Eric Groves (formerly a senior vice president at Constant Contact) and Venkat Krishnamurthy. Groves, who's the company's CEO, said that most local businesses don't have a way to work with each other or even know… Read More
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Amazon Extends Its Shopping Cart To Twitter
Amazon has just introduced a new feature that lets Twitter users add items to their Amazon carts by including a hashtag within a tweet. After the user connects their Twitter account to Amazon, they can extend their Amazon shopping experience by tweeting a reply to Amazon product links they see on Twitter including the hashtag #AmazonCart -- or #AmazonBasket in the UK -- to add the product to… Read More
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MyFitnessPal Moves Into Asia With Localized Apps For China, Japan, And Korea
MyFitnessPal, a nutrition and fitness startup that says it now has more than 50 million registered users, is announcing the last big piece in its international expansion. The company launched its first international apps back in June of last year, and this week, it released versions in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Co-founder Mike Lee told me that this brings the total to 14 languages. Read More
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Facebook Promotes VP Of Product Chris Cox To Chief Product Officer, But No Organizational Change
Chris Cox helped invent News Feed and devised Facebook's "Social By Design" strategy, so now the company is recognizing his critical contributions by promoting the VP Of Product to Chief Product Officer. The new title won't come with any organizational change, but cements the 31-year-old Cox as a leader of Facebook alongside COO Sheryl Sandberg. Mark Zuckerberg delivered the news to the company… Read More
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Tweets Can Guide Emergency Responders Almost Immediately After An Earthquake
Aggregated data from sites like Google and Twitter have given researchers new ways to track things ranging from diseases to emergency responses after a disaster. Now Stanford researchers are using tweets to supplement ShakeMaps, which are created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program to track earthquakes so quickly that data about affected areas is available almost in… Read More
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Foursquare Swarms Over Swarmly
News that a major company or extremely well-funded competitor has launched a new product with a similar or identical name is certainly the kind of thing that keeps startup founders up at night. Well, the former has just happened to location sharing UK startup Swarmly Read More
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Everything Facebook Launched At f8 And Why
This year's f8 didn't see comedian Andy Sandberg bumbling around on stage parodying Mark Zuckerberg. And that was smart, because Facebook is no joke to the millions of developers that earn their livelihoods on the social network. Instead, f8 focused on washing away the perception of Facebook's platform as unpredictable for developers and giving them new ways to grow their apps and make money. Read More
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LinkedIn Beats The Street In Q1 On Sales Of $473M, EPS Of $0.38, Raises Outlook
Amid a market correction that has seen many tech stocks lose value, LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, today reported Q1 earnings that beat analyst estimates. Sales came in at $473 million, with EPS of $0.38. Those sales beat both First Call and its own guidance -- $467 million and $455-$460 million, respectively. Read More
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Ambient Proximity Is The Next Phase Of Location Sharing
It's not where your friends are, but how close they are that matters. After years of exact coordinate check-ins, both Foursquare and Facebook are now focusing on ambient proximity -- constantly and automatically sharing your approximate distance from close friends. Ambient proximity lets you know if a friend is near enough to meet up with, yet without the creepiness of seeing their every move on a… Read More
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HowAboutWe Launches You&Me Messaging App For Couples
Prepping for a summer of love, dating apps and services are putting on their game faces. Fresh on the heels of a new Match.com app release, HowAboutWe has just launched a standalone messaging app for couples that lets two sweeties share multiple types of content and create a story together. The app is called You&Me and is the first standalone project out of the company, which currently… Read More
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Social Marketing Company Unified Acquires Analytics Startup Awe.sm
Unified, which has created what it calls a "social operating platform," is announcing that it has acquired analytics startup Awe.sm. Unified offers tools for buying ads on social media, and for monitoring other ad-buying systems. Earlier this year it added business intelligence data for tracking broader trends in a companies' social ad spending. Read More
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Facebook Will Soon Open-Source More Of The Core Technology Behind Its Paper App
At its F8 developer conference Facebook today announced that it will soon open-source more of the technology behind its Paper mobile app for iOS. In a few weeks, the company will upload the code for DisplayNode to GitHub. This is the asynchronous user interface technology the company developed for Paper, which allows it to render large amounts of objects on the screen without slowing down the… Read More
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PunchTab Raises $6.25M To Turn Loyalty Programs Into An Enterprise Data Business
PunchTab, the startup led by YouSendIt (now known as Hightail) founder Ranjith Kumaran, is announcing that it has raised $6.25 million in additional funding. The company started out by helping businesses run promotions and loyalty programs, such as giveaways. More recent products include "second screen" tools for brands that want to reward to TV viewers for checking in to a program or tweeting… Read More
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Facebook’s New APIs Let Media Outlets Visualize Trending Topics And Hashtags
TV news and other media sources now have a way to show off what’s popular on Facebook and with whom. Today Facebook launched the Trending, Topic Insights, Topic Feed, and Hashtag Counter APIs. It’s part of Facebook’s Public Content Solutions division which continues the company’s quest to tempt the media away from its competitor Twitter. Here’s how the new APIs… Read More
