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Eventbrite Moves Forward With Music Push Through Ticketfly Acquisition
For many, Eventbrite’s progress over the past decade has been about selling you tickets, just like you’d expect from Ticketmaster — in fact, I was tempted to title this this post “The Modern Ticketmaster.” But this company is more than just about tickets, but about the overarching experience you’d get from events, from discovery to […]
Pinboard Acquires Online Bookmark Service Del.icio.us, Ends Updates On June 15
Pinboard has acquired the old-school online bookmarking service Del.icio.us in a move that’s likely to bring in the more than 1 billion bookmarks into Pinboard catalog of ideas. While Del.icio.us will remain online, on June 15, it will be put into “read-only” mode, meaning that no new bookmarks will be saved and the API will be shut […]
The Undefined Path
Four years ago I began using a new social network and since then, I’ve posted over 7,500 “moments” that only a few friends are privy to see. The service I’m using and of which I’m talking about is Path. And for many years, it’s been a lightning rod for criticism over privacy or just the […]
Highlight’s Roll for iOS App Is Great For Quickly Sharing Photos With Friends, But Initially Lacks Unique Features
Whatever happened to Highlight? You remember the app — it’s a location-based service that helped you find people near you in an almost serendipitous-type manner. Turns out that it’s still around and the company is still chugging away, especially after raising $4 million in December 2013. The company just launched its first standalone app today called […]
Priime for iOS is a Photo Editing App With Pro Photographer-Curated Styles To Make Your Pics Look Good
As some of you may know, I have a habit of taking photographs practically everywhere I go. Usually I’m lugging around a Canon 7D dSLR, but nearly all the time I have on hand my iPhone. I don’t fancy myself a professional photographer so when I browse through Instagram, EyeEm, Flickr, and Facebook and see […]
The ‘Mobile-First’ Yahoo: 575 Million Users and a New Suite of Dev Tools
Yahoo has doubled down on its investment in the mobile space, with CEO Marissa Mayer putting her proverbial stake in the ground and declaring that her company is a “mobile-first” one. At Yahoo’s inaugural mobile developer conference (formerly known as Flurry’s Source conference), it was made known that Flurry would be the de facto platform for […]
Transforming the Box: Aaron Levie’s Mission to Show It’s More Than Storing Files in the Cloud
The world of cloud storage has certainly heated up over the past couple of years, let alone months. Nary, a day goes by when we’re probably reading news about the latest service to increase storage capacity. Just this summer, Microsoft did that with its OneDrive service, giving free account holders 15GB of storage and 1TB […]
Broadcom’s WICED Sense Is A $19.99 Developer Kit To Aid In Rapid Prototyping of Internet of Things Apps
The Internet of Things (IoT) space is heating up with numerous players entering the market more and more frequently. It’s estimated that this will be a $300 billion market by 2020 and is probably enticing enough to get everyone interested in entering the market. But how does one get involved and why is Broadcom interested […]
Expedia Morphs Into A Travel Data Platform, With New Apps And Planning Tools
In the days before the rise of Airbnb, Kayak.com, Hipmunk, TripIt, and a slew of other travel-related services, three dominant forces dominated the travel industry: Orbitz, Travelocity, and Expedia. They still remain in operation today, but much of the spotlight has been shone on the likes of Kayak and Airbnb, with the latter being defined as a “decacorn”—a startup […]
62% Prefer Facebook Over Pinterest, Twitter As Their Social Commerce Channel
In the social world, all the platforms are looking to one-up each other and show that it’s possible to monetize their service. Lately, that has evolved beyond simple advertising. And it’s apparent what you’re seeing now — earlier this month, it was said that there were signs Twitter would soon unveil its shopping service, something […]
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