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Aiming To Be A ‘B2B Google’ For Business Intel, Mattermark Raises $6.5M Led By Foundry Group
Mattermark, the business intelligence site that pivoted out of YC-backed curation site Referly, is today announcing that it has raised a round of $6.5 million, funding that the startup will…
Today Instagram has added five new filters for still images, which is the first time they’ve done such a thing in two years. The most recent filters before this, which…
Online Consignment Shop For Kids’ Items Swap.com Raises $4 Million Series A
A newer competitor in the online consignment space, Swap.com, has raised $4 million in Series A funding for its e-commerce shop where parents can buy secondhand kids’ clothing, gear, books,…
Jury Sides With Apple In iTunes DRM Antitrust Lawsuit
A jury has found in favor of Apple in a lawsuit brought against it for DRM practices employed in iTunes, which claimed it was in violation of U.S. antitrust regulations…
Anonymous Allegedly Attacking Swedish Servers For Pirate Bay Shutdown
Anonymous is attacking Swedish government servers, including police services, in retaliation for the shutdown of the The Pirate Bay, a bit torrent aggregator. The attacks, mostly denial-of-service efforts, have been…
FullContact For Gmail Is The Latest Email Plug-In To Take On LinkedIn’s Rapportive
Rapportive users have not been happy about the email plug-in’s performance and changes following its acquisition by LinkedIn. Instead of rich contact info and tools for following and friending email…
Pebble 2.3 For Android Brings Interactive Notifications, Will Work With Android Wear-Ready Apps
Pebble’s upcoming Android software release will introduce support for directly replying to messages and performing other actions right from the watch based on inbound notifications. The 2.3 software update effectively…
Profitable SaaS Startup Buffer Breaks Down How It Spends Its Revenue
Buffer, a startup that provides social media management tools, today posted a breakdown of how its spends its revenue on salaries, servers and other expenses. The post is sufficiently detailed…
Nutrition App Rise Adds Apple HealthKit Integration And Launches Its First International Markets
Over the past year and a half, the team behind personal nutrition app Rise has worked to help its users make better decisions about the things that they eat. Today,…
There once was a man from Blue Grouse Who wanted to become fully soused He got in his car And went to the bar And wished he had stayed in…
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Parents like to say when it comes to raising kids, small kids, small problems; big kids, big problems. As Uber metastasizes into a transportation behemoth with a gargantuan $40B valuation,…
Vinli Partners With Dash To Make Cars Even Smarter
Vinli is building an app ecosystem for vehicles and just partnered with one of the biggest players in the growing space: Dash. The two competitors are joining forces to jointly…
Palringo Hits 35M Users Globally After Sticking To Chat Inside Mobile Games
You might been forgiven for having slightly forgotten about Palringo, an early messaging app founded in 2006 which later became associated with the gaming community. But it’s been building out…
Paltalk Buys Tinychat As Video Messaging Apps Consolidate
Mega-popular messaging apps like WeChat or WhatsApp today typically boast over half a billion (or even one billion) users, and now we are seeing some consolidation among some of the (slightly) smaller players, specifically on the video…
Sen. Al Franken Not Happy With Uber’s Evasive Responses On Privacy
Senator Al Franken is critical of Uber’s response to the concerns he raised around privacy — specifically complaining that it lacks detail and that the company’s three page letter avoids…
Another day, another animal given a new lease on life thanks to 3D printing. This time it’s Derby, a dog born with deformed legs who, with the help of some…
The Reinvention Of The Ad-Tech Sector
There are major changes afoot in advertising technology at the moment, but not everyone has realized how transformational these changes are. Indeed, analysts have talked about four types of business…
Talkspace Therapy Platform Piles On Another $1M From Metamorphic, Launches On Android
Talkspace, the web and mobile app that lets people connect and communicate with licensed therapists, has today announced the close of a $1 million bridge from Metamorphic Ventures to close…
T-Mobile Now Lets You Bank Purchased Data For Up To One Year
T-Mobile continues its massive marketing engine of Uncarrier announcements today with version 8.0 of its ongoing “industry-rocking” moves. Despite the ridiculous tenor of the marketing message and absurd software-style sequential…
Goal-Tracking And Self-Improvement App Lift Adds Personal Coaching, Raises $1.1M More
Lift, the mobile app incubated by Twitter co-founders’ Obvious Corp., launched last year to help people build healthier habits and achieve their goals by offering a simple way to track your…