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As concerts and live events return to the physical world stateside, many in the tech industry have wondered whether some of the pandemic-era opportunities around virtualizing these events are lost for

For the nearly 20 percent of Americans who experience severe online harassment, there’s a new company launching in the latest batch of Y Combinator called Tall Poppy that’s giving them the

Following what it calls a “cyber incident,” the event ticket distributor Ticketfly took its homepage offline on Thursday morning. The company left this message on its website, which remai

Since the dawn of consumer history, tickets have been a product defined by scarcity and lack of accessibility. The result is an abysmal category user experience that’s most often talked about with u

Spotify late last year turned its recommendation engine to concerts, suggesting nearby shows based on the listening habits of its users. Today, Pandora announced a similar move, aided by Ticketfly, w

Nearly fifteen years after chief executive Mark Tacchi launched his ticketing services Vendini to compete with the likes of TicketMaster, the company has raised its first $20 million in outside capita

There has been no shortage of thoughtful articles exploring a bubble in technology. I would argue that the world has already been transformed, and there is no bubble in the purest sense. Instead of ma

WillCall had great design and community, but didn’t have tickets to the best concerts. Ticketfly had deep relationships with music venues, but no one was using it to discover shows. Today, Ticke

It’s Friday, Friday, gotta crunch down on Friday. Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. This week we’re chattin

This week, Microsoft announced new hardware, Twitter finally got a permanent CEO, and Facebook confirmed it is working on augmented reality. Here in the TechCrunch studio, we talked about India&#8217

Pandora has a new tool in its belt to fight against Apple Music and Spotify. The music streaming just announced it will purchase Ticketfly, a Ticketmaster-type site, for $450m in cash and stock. Pando

In this episode of Cribs, we headed over to Ticketfly, the startup that runs a ticketing platform for all kinds of live events. As you can see in the video embedded above, going to visit Ticketfly HQ

WillCall is a pretty concert app, but its weakness was a lack of deals with venues to get tickets to sell. Well no more, as today it was acquired by Ticketfly, the second-biggest concert ticket seller

Thanks to a new product from Ticketfly, concert promoters and event venues will now have a tool for identifying and rewarding the customers who attend their events -- and get other people to do so as

Ticketmaster has a new challenger in Canada. U.S. ticketing platform <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ticketfly.com/">Ticketfly</a> today entered its first international market by striking a deal w

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.seatgeek.com">SeatGeek</a> aims to become the definitive search engine for live events, but until now, the tickets available on the site only came from secondary re

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ticketfly.com/">Ticketfly</a> is not content playing second fiddle to Ticketmaster, so it just raised a $22 million Series C with each investor chosen for a strengt

Ticketmaster could get away with high service fees because it's one of the few ticketing options for huge venues, but not anymore. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ticketfly.com/">Ticketfly</a> can

You know what doesn't rock? Missing a concert by your favorite band. So today <a href="http://www.livenation.com/">Live Nation</a> is publicly launching its <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/concer