Search results for: “weebly”
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If you are a front-end developer, setting up signup forms and integrations with popular APIs can be very painful. Stamplay wants to make back-end development as easy as playing with…
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Weebly, which offers easy-to-use tools for building websites, announced today that it has raised $35 million in Series C funding. The money comes from previous investor Sequoia Capital and from…
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Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, has just posted a blog post announcing the Board of Overseers at the world’s most successful accelerator. The list includes Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky,…
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Chinese Startup Crowdfunding Site CTQuan Raises $4 Million, Launches Overseas Investment Fund
4:59 am PDT • June 13, 2014CTQuan, the Chinese equity crowdfunding site for startup companies, has raised roughly $4 million in a new round of financing, TechCrunch has learned. The Beijing-based company (and CrunchBase content partner)…
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Easy Mobile Web Site Builder Duda Expands To All Platforms
7:06 am PST • February 25, 2014Wix, Weebly, SquareSpace, Moonfruit. There are Plenty of web site builders out there. But still they come. The latest is DudaOne, describing itself as a “one-click site builder” for desktop,…
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Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and the open-source WordPress platform, today announced that it has raised a $160 million Series C round from Insight Ventures, True Ventures, Chris Sacca, Endurance,…
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Enterprise
Defense.net’s DDoS Frontline Fights Cyberattacks On IP Services And The Internet Of Things
6:06 am PST • January 29, 2014Distributed denial of service attacks have been one of the most common and well-known ways that malicious hackers have gone after companies on the web. But as cybercrime becomes more…
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Startups
With 30K Active Online Stores, Weebly Launches DIY eCommerce Platform To Take On Amazon And Shopify
4:38 pm PST • November 6, 2013Launching today, Weebly’s new eCommerce platform aims to bring simple online store creation to the masses, Rusenko says, and will provide businesses access to a mobile store and checkout, filtered…
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Startups
Fresh From IPO, Wix Acquires Israeli Startup Appixia To Bring Native Mobile Commerce Support To 42M Users
5:09 am PDT • March 13, 2014Wix emerged in 2006 as part of a new generation of startups on a mission to do for website creation what Blogger, WordPress and Tumblr have done for bloggers and…
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Announcing Your Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield Final Judges: Borthwick, Botha, Dixon, Mayer, Pokorny And Wilson
11:15 am PDT • May 2, 2014Welcome to sunny New York City, where people wear jackets to parties and time is of the essence! As you can probably guess, our whole team is here for the…
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Alibaba Is Not A Threat To US Internet Companies
10:42 am PDT • May 7, 2014Everybody loves superlatives, and it is definitely Superlatives Week for the tech press. Alibaba’s IPO will represent “surely one of tech’s largest ever” Kara Swisher of Re/code intoned. Heather Somerville…
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Media & Entertainment
GoDaddy Will Take On Shopify With A Simpler E-Commerce Storefront Arriving This Spring
10:07 am PST • February 24, 2014GoDaddy is launching a Shopify competitor aimed at small business customers, TechCrunch learned and the company has confirmed. The “GoDaddy Online Store,” as the new product is being called, will…
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Startups
As Wix Heads Toward IPO, Weebly Looks To Expand With Big New SF Headquarters, Plans To Add 500+ Employees
9:04 pm PDT • August 24, 2013Weebly, the service that lets you, your grandma and anyone else build a website for free, is growing fast. The startup launched out of Y Combinator in 2007 and today…
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Startups
Y Combinator Alum Strikingly Launches Its Super Easy ‘One-Click’ Site Builder
6:34 am PST • December 2, 2013Y Combinator alum Strikingly launched earlier this year with the mission of enabling people to build websites in just a few minutes. With the launch of its one-click site builder,…
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Startups
Virb Website Builder Jettisons From Media Temple As It’s Bought By GoDaddy
10:25 am PDT • October 15, 2013GoDaddy acquired Media Temple today. As part of the deal, the easy website building service Virb that was bought by Media Temple in 2012 is being spun out and sold…
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Enterprise
Bizness Apps Launches DIY Website Builder, Looks To Become A Full-Service Digital Marketing Suite For SMBs
4:46 am PDT • September 28, 2013Once upon a time, if you wanted your own website, you either had to speak fluent Internet, or write a large check to someone who did. However, thanks to the…
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Media & Entertainment
Website Editor Jimdo Launches An iOS App So Users Can Build And Edit Sites From Their Phone
8:05 pm PDT • August 21, 2013Jimdo, a Hamburg-headquartered company offering easy-to-use tools for building websites, already seems pretty mobile friendly. Jimdo-powered sites can also be viewed in mobile-optimized layouts, and earlier this year the company…
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Startups
With 37M Users And Revenues At $34M, DIY Website Creation Platform Wix Files For $100M IPO On The NYSE
3:03 pm PDT • October 1, 2013Capitalizing on the maturing Web and growing demand for DIY creation and publishing tools, the Israel and U.S.-based company has grown to 400 strong, raised $60 million from investors and…
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Meet Grove, Sequoia Capital’s New Startup Events And How-To Content Hub
8:00 am PDT • September 20, 2013VCs are starting to get into content. First Round debuted its own version of Harvard Business Review. Andreessen Horowitz recently brought on Wired editor Michael Copeland to lead its content…
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GetInspired365 Is A Discovery Site For Inspirational Videos
1:15 am PDT • August 23, 2013An industry has blossomed around people hungry for a quick hit of motivation. TED talks, Do Lectures and sites like Brainy Quote all exist to provide inspirational content for the…
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Media & Entertainment
With Over 15M Sites Built, Weebly Launches New Planner And Mobile Editor, Brings Website Creation Service To Android
3:30 pm PDT • May 3, 2013In this day and age, if you own a small business, you need a web (and mobile) presence. It’s just the way it is. Some might opt just to go…
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Startups
Now 34M Users Strong, DIY Web Publishing Platform Wix Takes First Step Toward IPO
6:15 am PDT • June 4, 2013Riding the growing demand for DIY website tools, Wix has grown into a sizable company and now employs nearly 400 people in its offices in Tel Aviv, New York and…
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Startups
SnapPages Takes Aim At The Wixes And Weeblys Of The World With Major New Redesign
8:45 pm PDT • July 9, 2013Today, the website creation market is dominated by a handful of veteran players, as companies like Wix, Weebly and SquareSpace now own the majority of mindshare and boast tens of…
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Startups
Backed By First Round’s Dorm Room Fund, Pagevamp Turns Facebook Pages Into Websites
11:59 am PDT • June 19, 2013It feels like startups are taking more and more steps to make the website creation process as easy as possible. There are companies like Weebly, which offer drag-and-drop interfaces for…
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Google Will Soon Launch Google Web Designer, A Free HTML5 Development Tool For Creating Web Apps, Sites And Ads
9:35 am PDT • June 4, 2013Google will soon launch Google Web Designer, an HTML5 development tool for “creative professionals.” The service, Google says, will launch within “the coming months” and is meant to “empower creative…
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TC Cribs: A Look Inside Weebly, The Land Of Prohibition-Era Tunnels And (Shh) Secret Rooms
3:07 pm PST • March 5, 2013A big part of what makes our Cribs series so fun to make is going behind closed doors to get a real glimpse at how a company works (and plays.)…
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Paul Graham: 37 Y Combinator Companies Have Valuations Of Or Sold For At Least $40M
7:02 pm PDT • May 26, 2013Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham just tweeted an interesting data point about the valuations of YC startups. As of now, Graham says that 37 Y Combinator companies, out of 511…
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How Stripe, Weebly And Cue Make Programming Challenges That Are Good For Recruiting
9:00 pm PST • March 8, 2013Editor’s note: Robby Walker is co-founder and CTO of Cue. His previous company, Zenter, sold to Google in 2007. Programming challenges are a fantastic way to connect great people with great…
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Announcing Your Disrupt SF Finals Judges: Marissa Mayer, Roelof Botha, Keith Rabois, David Lee, Chris Dixon And Michael Arrington
12:55 pm PDT • September 3, 2013You’ll see some startups trying to solve big problems in networking, business software and security next week during our Battlefield competition at Disrupt SF — industries which at first glance…