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Fighting the ‘copycat’ stigma in SaaS: 3 tricks that work

It always stings to hear a prospect say, "Oh you’re like a cheaper/newer version of [your biggest competitor]." It stings even more when you know you have a superior product.

F3, a Stories-style Q&A app for Gen Z teens, raises $3.9M

F3, an anonymous Q&A app targeting Gen Z teens which blends a Tinder-style swipe-to-friend gamification mechanic, Stories-esque rich media responses and eye-wateringly expensive subscriptions to u

IAC-Owned Ask.fm Acquires Recipe Network Foodily

IAC-owned social network Ask.fm has acquired the entire team behind recipe network Foodily, the companies are announcing today, which includes those focused on product, engineering and design. These n

IAC Hires David Siegel As CEO Of Finance Website Investopedia

Finance education website <a target="_blank" href="http://www.investopedia.com">Investopedia</a> has a new CEO — David Siegel, who was previously president at stock market news and opinion site <a t

Mobile App Search Service Quixey Confirms $60 Million In New Funding

Mobile app search company Quixey, which has been focused on solving the challenges with app discovery, and counts among its customer base names like Ask.com and Sprint, confirmed today it has raised

IAC Agrees To Work With Regulators On Cyberbullying Protections Following Ask.fm Deal

IAC-owned search company Ask.com has acquired the beleaguered anonymous Q&A social network, Ask.fm. The news was first reported by The New York Times this morning, and IAC and Ask.fm have also con

UrbanSpoon To Focus On Quality Restaurant Reviews After Selling Rezbook To OpenTable

After stepping out of a heated battle over the restaurant reservation space, Urbanspoon is taking a new approach to its review services — editorial content. Yelp had acquired reservation manage

About.com Makes Big Leadership Changes As It Zeroes In On Native Advertising And Social

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.about.com/">About.com</a> has been around since 1996, but nearly 20 years later the company is undergoing a relatively large shakeup. Just recently, Neil Vogel

Ask.com Brings Mobile Q&A Platform To Android Devices

As we heard last year, <a href="http://www.ask.com/">Ask</a> <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/09/ask-com-gives-up-on-search-hangs-its-hopes-on-qa/">surrendered its search operations</a> to its

An Unlikely Entrant In The Location App Race At SXSW: Ask.com

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-280868" title="Screen shot 2011-03-03 at 10.12.21 AM" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/screen-shot-2011-03-03-at-10-12-21-am.png" alt="" /

Exclusive: Bloglines Will Be Resurrected By IAC-Funded MerchantCircle

<img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/merchblog3.jpg" alt="" />The saga continues. After <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/10/exclusive-iac-finally-kills-off-bl

Compete Top 50: Bing And Ask Rise – MySpace, MapQuest And Flickr Fall

<img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/compete.png" alt="" /> Online analytics company <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/compete">Compete</a> has just <a hre

When Google Wanted To Sell To Excite For Under $1 Million — And They Passed

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-225877" title="112" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/1121.jpg" alt="" />On stage today at our <a href="http://disrupt.beta.techcrunch.com/2

Barry Diller: Ask.com Has No Value Inside Of IAC

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/ask.png" class="shot2">Many of us may have forgotten that Ask.com is a search engine just like Google and Bing. It seems that IAC's <a href="h

Exclusive: IAC Finally Kills Off Bloglines

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/bloglines.png" class="shot2">It's finally happened. <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/">Bloglines,</a>the troubled RSS feed reader owned by IA

Swingly's Answer Engine Comes Out Of Stealth Swinging And Killing Zombies

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-208430" title="Screen shot 2010-08-16 at 9.27.25 PM" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/screen-shot-2010-08-16-at-9-27-25-pm.png" alt="" />A

Dictionary.com's iPhone App Agent X Word Helps You Solve Crossword Puzzles On The Go

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/dic-133x200.jpg" width="133" height="200" /> If you enjoy crossword puzzles, you are going to love <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/"

One Website To Rule Them All: Explosions And Boobs

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/picture-167-630x344-215x117.png" width="215" height="117" />We on the web are a simple folk — especially us males. We need but two things to

IAC's Ask.com Acquires Domain Name Monetizer Sendori

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/sendori.png" alt="" /><a href="http://sponsoredlistings.ask.com/">Ask Sponsored Listings</a>, a division of <a href="http://www.crunchbase.c

Ask.com Experimental Search Is Effectively Nothing More Than An Ad Engine

<img src='https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/askads.jpg' class="border" alt='' /> Search for <a href="http://www.ask.com/web?qsrc=2417&o=10170&l=dis&q=stocks">Stocks</a> on
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