BuzzFeed’s CEO Says Modern Media Is About Pushing Actual Content, Not Links
Because so many publishers build their businesses on banner ads, they have to get people back to their site to make money says Buz…
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Shift Labs Launches Out Of Y Combinator To Make Medical Devices For Healthcare’s Future
Shift Labs is a small startup launching this spring out of Y Combinator with a lofty tagline: to be the Nest of medical devices. B…
Friendsy Is Tinder For College Students Only, Created By Two Princeton Students
During his freshman year at Princeton, Michael Pinsky went to the student lounge to watch a Yankees game. Knowing there were plent…
Facebook Buys And Shuts Down Shopping Site TheFind To Boost Commerce In Ads
Facebook today announced it has acquired personalized shopping search engine TheFind to help improve its commerce ads. TheFind had…
Balanced To Close Its Payment Platform, Strikes Transition Deal With Rival Stripe
The march ofconsolidation in the world of e-commerce has claimed its latest victim. Balanced, a payments platform for peer-to-peer…
What Will Meerkat Do Without Twitter?
Thats the danger of building on someone elses platform. You never know when theyll pivot into your business and steamroll you. Las…
Honest Company CEO Brian Lee Celebrates His Birthday By Talking IPO Possibilities At SXSW
When Brian Lee and Jessica Alba (yes, that Jessica Alba), co-founders of eco-friendly e-commerce startup The Honest Company, spoke…
Secure Messaging App Wiper Adds Bitcoin Support, Gets Yanked In China
Viper,a chat application designed to provide users with control over their sent and received messages, recently rolled out support…
The Apple Watch Compared To The Competition
After nearly half a year of suspense, we finally have all the details about the Apple Watch, including when itll launch, how much …
This USB Drive Can Nuke A Computer
Do not ever use a random USB flash drive. There are plenty of software exploits that can ruin your computer or life. And with this…
