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Reddit’s acquisition spree is continuing this morning with news that the company is bringing the audience contextualization company Spiketrap’s technology in-house. Deal terms were not disclosed, but Reddit says Spiketrap’s…

Reddit acquires contextualization company Spiketrap to boost its ads business

Any Redditor knows that the best thing about Reddit is bearing witness to the strange and occasionally brilliant stuff that the community itself comes up with — and the company…

Reddit launches a new developer portal to give third-party apps and bots a boost

Babbel, the popular subscription-based online language learning service, today announced a couple of updates about its U.S. businesses — the Berlin-based company’s largest market by overall revenue and its fastest-growing…

Babbel brings its B2B language learning service to the US

As major social platforms grapple with an influx of misinformation around the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Reddit is having its own reckoning. On Tuesday, Reddit added the subreddit r/Russia to…

Reddit quarantines r/Russia due to ‘high volume’ of misinformation

After unveiling its Clubhouse clone last April, Reddit is adding new features to Reddit Talk that are intended to boost engagement. Among these additions are web compatibility, recordings of past…

Reddit rolls out a web version of Reddit Talk, its live audio product

Reddit is testing a feature that would allow its users to set any NFT they own as their profile picture — not only its own Ethereum-based NFTs, called “CryptoSnoos,” released…

Reddit tests allowing users to set any NFT as their profile picture, similar to Twitter

Berlin-based language learning service Babbel was supposed to IPO on the Frankfurt stock exchange in late September. But only a few days before the initial listing the company pulled the…

Despite scrapped IPO, Babbel sees fast growth for its language learning service
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Reddit files confidentially to go public

7:15 pm PST • December 15, 2021

In August, Reddit raked in a hefty $410 million financing led by Fidelity, valuing it at $10 billion. It had plans to close out the round, a Series F, at…

Reddit files confidentially to go public

Contra provides tools for independent workers to build a professional identity and manage their work from inquiry to project scope discussion to signing a contract to getting paid.

Independent worker network Contra goes commission-free as it secures new NEA-led capital

Reddit today is introducing a new way to post to its communities with the launch of the on-platform feature called “Predictions.” Spun off of the popular Reddit Polls, Predictions allow…

Reddit adds a new way to post with launch of ‘Predictions’ feature

Reddit announced today that it has hired Pali Bhat, the former vice-president of product and design at Google Cloud, as the company’s first chief product officer. Bhat will be tasked…

Reddit hires former Google Cloud exec as its first chief product officer

Reddit has raised a new funding round, totaling $250 million. This is the company’s Series E round of financing, and it comes hot on the heels of renewed public attention…

Reddit raises $250 million in Series E funding

Babbel, the Berlin-based language-learning platform, today announced that it is now going well beyond its core app-based learning service and is introducing live classes. Capped at six students, these conversation-driven…

Language-learning service Babbel adds live classes, games and more

WallStreetBets goes dark

4:03 pm PST • January 27, 2021

After a wild day for public markets driven by Reddit traders commandeering stocks and combatting hedge fund short sellers, the community at r/wallstreetbets no longer has a home on Discord…

WallStreetBets goes dark

Babbel, the popular Berlin-based online language learning service, today announced that it has now sold a total of 10 million subscriptions to its service. For a language learning service, that’s…

Language learning service Babbel says it has now sold over 10M subscriptions

Twitter and Reddit have filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit challenging a U.S. government rule change compelling visa applicants to disclose their social media handles. The lawsuit,…

Twitter, Reddit challenge US rules forcing visa applicants to disclose their social media handles

Babbel, the Berlin-based paid language learning app, today announced that, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is making its service available for free to all K-12 and college students…

Babbel makes its language learning app free for all US students

Babbel, the popular Berlin-based language learning service, today announced that its founder and current co-CEO Markus Witte is stepping down from his CEO role but that he will remain the…

Founder of language learning platform Babbel steps down as co-CEO to focus on board role

Reddit is continuing its march towards becoming a social network after it added location tagging to its mobile app. The service is famously known as “the front page of the…

Reddit’s new location tagging feature continues its push to become a social network

Today, Pingpad, which launched last year as a consumer mobile app, did an about-face, announcing it has built a collaboration tool on top of the popular Slack enterprise communications platform. It…

Pingpad hitches wagon to Slack with new collaboration tool aimed at enterprise