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Saturday, October 14, 2017

The keys to your house belong to startups

Silicon Valley may be the techiest place on earth, but even here, the way people open the front door hasn’t changed much in a century. Most of us still get in by turning a flat metal key in a lock. Visitors ring doorbells, and we peep at them through peepholes. If we’re out, keyless guests are out of luck. If investors have their way, that status quo will look quite primitive in a… Read More

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While you wait for Twitter to roll out “more aggressive” rules regarding hate speech, which CEO Jack Dorsey promised are coming within “weeks” as of late Friday, here’s a quick workaround to kick nazis off of your Twitter feed right now… Read More

from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2tAwAhV Here’s how to kick nazis off your Twitter right now Natasha Lomas http://ift.tt/2z8pt07
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I have a new habit. It quenches a thirst. It soothes a weakened, battered piece of my psyche. It repairs my wounds and unleashes me, more powerful, into my day. It fulfills the saddest, most regrettable pieces of myself. It may also be a habit that you want to pick up. You too may find that this simple step into the breach of social engagement online can make you… Fitter. Happier.… Read More

from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2kPGYAf My new favorite Twitter habit is saving me so much heartache Jordan Crook http://ift.tt/2ienrZr
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I have a new habit. It quenches a thirst. It soothes a weakened, battered piece of my psyche. It repairs my wounds and unleashes me, more powerful, into my day. It fulfills the saddest, most regrettable pieces of myself. It may also be a habit that you want to pick up. You too may find that this simple step into the breach of social engagement online can make you… Fitter. Happier.… Read More

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Fandango is acquiring rival online ticketer MovieTickets.com

{rss:content:encoded} Fandango is acquiring rival online ticketer MovieTickets.com http://ift.tt/2ylDWIR http://ift.tt/2ymrCIp October 13, 2017 at 08:40PM

A consolidation in the advance movie ticketing space is happening today, with Fandango’s announcement that it’s acquiring rival MovieTickets.com for an undisclosed sum. The deal, which is expected to close before year-end, will help Fandango expand its international footprint, particularly in Latin America, as well as bring new cinemas to its ticketing platform. Headquartered in… Read More

Supersolid, a London-based mobile games developer with more than 50 million downloads under its belt, is best known for the smash hit games like ‘Super Penguins’, ‘Adventure Town’ and ‘Pororo Penguin Run’. It was created by a team of highly experienced mobile and social games veterans with backgrounds in EA, Playfish, Glu and Macrospace. That turns out to be… Read More

http://ift.tt/2i7SV3g Games developer Supersolid raises $4M Series A round led by Index Ventures http://ift.tt/2xDyGMR

PartyWith’s new app is part event-finder, part friend-finder

{rss:content:encoded} PartyWith’s new app is part event-finder, part friend-finder http://ift.tt/2yi2twq http://ift.tt/2gCzfkw October 13, 2017 at 07:00PM

Having just returned from an overseas vacation where I “partied with” a number of locals met spontaneously while out at concerts, bars and other events, I can’t quite wrap my head around the need for a dedicated app for travelers wanting to meet locals to hang out with – doesn’t this just happen naturally? But that, at least in part, is the premise behind… Read More

While Airbnb continues to grow its number of hosts and guests on the platform, sending the hotel industry into a frenzy, landlords and building owners don’t share the same enthusiasm for the home-sharing platform as Airbnb users. But the company has a new plan that gets each party on board with home-sharing. The company is collaborating with development firm Newgard Development Group… Read More

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A number of Twitter users are joining in a 24 hour boycott of the platform today, organized around the hashtag #WomenBoycottTwitter, to draw attention to online harassment on social media, including how women’s voices are silenced by bullying and abuse. Read More

from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2k59iNf Twitter users join 24 boycott to protest online harassment Natasha Lomas http://ift.tt/2zlK55V
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While most of the attention paid to India’s e-commerce boom focuses on big players like Flipkart, there’s another fast-growing sector: people, mostly women, who resell items on social media. Several startups now exist to serve the so-called “housewife reseller” market. One of them, Y Combinator alum Meesho, announced today that it has raised a $3.4 million Series A led… Read More

http://ift.tt/2kJOgFm Social commerce startup Meesho gets $3.4M Series A to build a reseller network in India http://ift.tt/2ylI8rP

Steve Wozniak, the Apple cofounder who changed the world alongside Steve Jobs, has today announced the launch of Woz U, According to the release, Woz U will start out as an online learning platform focused on both students and companies that will eventually hire those students. Woz U is based out of Arizona, and hopes to launch physical locations for learning in more than 30 cities across… Read More

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iOS and Samsung market share now tied in the U.S.

{rss:content:encoded} iOS and Samsung market share now tied in the U.S. http://ift.tt/2gBYrYl http://ift.tt/2eszOgc October 13, 2017 at 04:37PM

iOS and Samsung’s U.S. market share is now tied, following growth for Apple’s smartphone OS over the three months ending in August, based on new data from Kantar Wordpanel, which tracks smartphone market share by way of sales data. According to its analysis, iOS is up 3.7 percentage points year-over-year, to achieve 35 percent market share, while Samsung only grew 0.8 points,… Read More

Facebook today formally announced its new feature that allows users to order food from local restaurants using its app. Instead of competing directly with other food ordering services, Facebook is partnering with several industry players on this effort, including EatStreet, Delivery.com, DoorDash, ChowNow, Olo, Zuppler, and Slice. It’s also working with restaurant chains directly,… Read More

from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2rA968T Facebook’s ‘Order Food’ feature officially launches across the U.S. Sarah Perez http://ift.tt/2gBBu7s
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Building a token sale is at once quite simple – you build a token and sell it – and quite complex. A number of issues crop up immediately including, but not limited to, the need for an expensive team of lawyers, marketers, social media experts, and, until now, an expensive crew to build your smart contract. CoinLaunch, a project by repeat entrepreneur Reuven Cohen, aims to reduce… Read More

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Omnyway raises $12.75M to connect advertising and mobile commerce

{rss:content:encoded} Omnyway raises $12.75M to connect advertising and mobile commerce http://ift.tt/2g6CrnG http://ift.tt/2drEuoA October 13, 2017 at 01:57AM

Omnyway announced today that it has raised $12.75 million in Series A funding. Previously known as OmnyPay, Omnyway has built technology around what it calls “augmented digital commerce” — basically, helping retailers stay connected to consumers through their mobile phone during the in-store shopping process. That includes loyalty programs, coupons and what CEO Ashok… Read More

Omnyway announced today that it has raised $12.75 million in Series A funding. Previously known as OmnyPay, Omnyway has built technology around what it calls “augmented digital commerce” — basically, helping retailers stay connected to consumers through their mobile phone during the in-store shopping process. Read More

http://ift.tt/2drEuoA Omnyway raises $12.75M to connect advertising and mobile commerce http://ift.tt/2g6CrnG

Official census forms are an invaluable source for demographic data throughout the country, but for trends that occur on the scale of weeks or months rather than years, they’re a bit lacking. But a new study shows that similar data used by Facebook to target ads could help fill in that blind spot. Read More

from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2hOdRqi Facebook’s ad targeting tools could be a valuable supplement to census data Devin Coldewey http://ift.tt/2kK7hHT
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“I make money from Facebook for my fake content in order to pay Facebook to promote my fake stories” said…Professor Chaos in one of the most brutal and succinct criticisms of the social network to date. The latest episode of South Park pulled no punches in its take down of the Facebook fake news scandal. It poses Mark Zuckerberg as an indecipherable bully protecting fake… Read More

from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2z2XGhv South Park slams Facebook for selling fake news Josh Constine http://ift.tt/2yg1Pzt
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Some employees at Outcome Health, which provides advertising for pharmaceutical companies in screens within doctors’ offices, allegedly misled advertisers by charging them for ad placements on more video screens than the company had installed, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The startup installs screens in doctors’ offices free of charge and then runs… Read More

http://ift.tt/2vgUTzy In-office medical advertising startup Outcome Health reportedly misled advertisers http://ift.tt/2zhRiE5

Twitter has abruptly broken its own policy of not commenting on individual accounts to explain why it temporarily suspended the account of actress Rose McGowan late yesterday, after she had been tweeting about allegations of sexual abuse and harassment which have been surfacing against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Read More

from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2dKrLrC Twitter breaks its silence on McGowan suspension Natasha Lomas http://ift.tt/2wPYBBf
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