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YouTube Network Maker Studios Introduces Its Platform For Managing Videos And Engaging With Fans
Maker Max is designed to be a one-stop shop for all the information Maker creators might need to grow their audiences. It provides a dashboard with analytics to show all their views, subscribers, revenue, and social engagement that has happened around their videos. Read More
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Walmart’s VUDU And Sony Pictures Introduce Online Extras For Digital Movies
Sony Pictures has teamed up with Walmart's Vudu to start offering additional content and features to viewers who buy movies through the streaming video service. The partnership is designed not just to provide more reason for customers to own digital movies, but could also be used by other studios and retailers. Read More
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Former BabyCenter Exec Tina Sharkey Hired As CEO Of Sherpa Foundry
Scott Stanford and Shervin Pishevar’s Sherpa Foundry has brought on BabyCenter executive Tina Sharkey as its CEO. Previously, she was CEO of Johnson and Johnson wholly-owned subsidiary BabyCenter, and prior to that co-founded iVillage and built out AOL Networks. Sharkey, who also sits on the board of HomeAway and Brit + Co, will be tasked with running operations at the “vague by… Read More
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Apple Adds Collaboration To iWork For iCloud To Take On Google Docs
Apple is trying to make its productivity software a little more appealing to users by making it free for those purchasing Mac or iOS devices. But that only matters if people use it. In an effort to get its iWork apps more widely adopted among enterprise users, it's adding collaboration features to take on cloud-based productivity tools like Google Apps. Read More
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In Pitch To NYC Regulators, Airbnb Claims It Generates $632M In Economic Activity
Peer-to-peer lodging marketplace Airbnb has faced some heat in New York City lately and is seeking to have new laws passed that would legitimize the service in the city. With that in mind, the company has released the findings of an economic study that it hopes will show what a positive impact the service has on the local community and economy. Read More
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Former Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy Joins Super-Secretive Payments Startup Clinkle As COO
Super-secretive startup Clinkle hasn't had a lot to say about what it's up to, but it's announcing a big hire today that it no doubt hopes will propel it forward in the mobile payments market. As the company prepares for public launch next year, Clinkle has brought on former Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy as its COO. Read More
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Netflix’s Q3 Beats Analyst Estimates With 1.3M New Domestic Subscribers, $0.52 Earnings Per Share
Netflix's third-quarter earnings report just came out, with the company beating analyst expectations on higher-than-expected subscriber numbers. For the third quarter, Netflix reported earnings of 52 cents per share on revenues of $1.1 billion. That compared to earnings of 13 cents per share on sales of $905 million in the year-ago quarter. Earnings were above analyst expectations of 49 cents a… Read More
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Social Video Broadcasting Startup Spreecast Comes Out Of Beta With A New Design
It's been two years since we first wrote about Spreecast, a startup which allows anyone to create live, social video broadcasts. After all that time, it's finally coming out of beta and doing so with a big new redesign. With the redesign, the new Spreecast is cleaner and more airy, cutting out all the jumble of logos and screenshots that used to dominate the homepage. Read More
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In Which Jack Dorsey Reads Us Some Poetry And Lists And Plays Us A Jazz Tune
Jack Dorsey seems to be at the tech world's center of attention over the last few weeks, thanks to a series of articles and an upcoming discussing the early days of Twitter, and whether or not he screwed over friends and coworkers in the early going. But the co-founder of Twitter, which also just happens to be in a quiet period while it prepares for IPO, sidestepped any unnecessary or awkward… Read More
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Airbnb Has Now Served 9M Guests Since Being Founded, Up From 4M At The End Of Last Year
Airbnb continues to grow at an amazing pace, and now has served a total of 9 million guests in the five years since being founded. At Y Combinator's annual startup school today, Airbnb co-founder and CTO Nate Blecharczyk demonstrated what hockey stick-like growth looks like after several years in a row. Read More
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Walmart Labs’ Subscription Snack Service Goodies.co Will Shut Down
Last year, Walmart Labs jumped on the subscription commerce bandwagon in an effort to compete with a range of startups offering monthly boxes of goodies to customers with a new service called Goodies.co. But the service, which has spent year or so in beta, will be shut down over the next few weeks. Read More
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Former News Corp Exec Greg Clayman Joins Vimeo
News Corp executive Greg Clayman has left his position with the company to join video distribution firm Vimeo as its general manager of audience networks. The news was first reported by Bloomberg, and later confirmed by Vimeo. Clayman had previously served as publisher of the short-lived digital-only news publication The Daily, and after that took on a new role as News Corp’s EVP of digital… Read More
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Dijit Can Now Send TV Reminders To Your Email, On Behalf Of Your Favorite Networks
Dijit is taking a little bit of a different approach to helping users make sure they don't miss their favorite shows, and it's doing so in partnership with a number of big broadcast and cable networks. The company is announcing the availability of its Reminder Button, a widget that can be embedded on various networks' websites, mobile apps, and even in their display ads that enables viewers to get… Read More
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Thanks To Shark Tank, Breathometer Scores $2 Million In Funding
Breathometer wants to help reduce the number of drunk drivers there are on the road, thanks to a pocket-sized device that connects to your phone through its headphone jack and can guage your blood alcohol level. To do that, it’s $2 million in new funding and announced a whole new group of executives. The company raised $1 million from investors that include Structure Capital VC and Dillon… Read More
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In A Push For Radical Transparency, Bloomberg Beta Makes Its Operating Manual Public For All To See
Bloomberg Beta is releasing its internally generated "operating manual" to the world on Github. While the manual was created by five-person staff for its own use in determining how and under what terms it plans to make investments, making the manual public will give startups seeking funding a better idea of what makes Bloomberg Beta tick, and what they can expect when they enter into discussions… Read More
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Boxer Raises $3 Million To Tame Your Inbox
Email management company Boxer has raised $3 million in funding led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Proceeds will be used to expand the company's engineering and design team and to build apps for other platforms, most notably Android. Along with the funding, Sutter Hill Ventures managing director Sam Pullara will join the Boxer board of directors. Read More
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Gowalla Co-Founder Scott Raymond Joins Airbnb’s Mobile Product Team
Less than two years after Facebook acqi-hired the Gowalla team, co-founder Scott Raymond has left to join Airbnb on its mobile product team. There Raymond will oversee a product that is growing in importance, as Airbnb seeks to facilitate connections between its users and speed up the process of creating listing and booking reservations. Read More
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500 Startups Is Raising $100 Million For Its Third Early-Stage Investment Fund
"Always be raising." 500 Startups is seeking $100 million to make seed-stage and follow-on investments, according to an SEC filing. The new fund is being raised just three years after 500 Startups first started writing checks, and as the investment firm is rapidly expanding. Read More
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Keepy Raises $1.1 Million To Store All Your Kids’ Artwork And Mementos
Interactive scrapbook startup Keepy wants to be the place where parents go to digitally store all their kids' artwork and report cards and whatever else. To that end, the company has raised $1.1 million from a group of angels across Silicon Valley, New York City, and Israel. Read More
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Online Fitness Startup Wello Launches Monthly Subscriptions For Individual And Group Training Sessions
Since launching last year, online fitness startups Wello has been trying to democratize training with Google Hangout-like video conferencing sessions. By doing so, Wello enables its customers to get into shape in their own homes and on their own time, while also offering up individual and group training sessions that are usually much cheaper than purchasing through your local gym. Read More
