Oh What A Night: Photos...
When we planned our mini meet-up series, we expected a few geeks in a bar somewhere drinking and swapping stories about C#. Nothing prepared us for the onslaught. At one point, 1,256 of us filled all three floors of Bar 13, a techno club near Union Square, and for most of the night I was...
Triposo’s Mobile Trav...
Back in September, Jon Tirsen and Douwe Osinga, two ex-Googlers, unveiled their new mobile travel guide, Triposo , setting out to do for travel content what Google and PageRank did for search. The startup developed a set of algorithms to crawl and parse the Web’s biggest travel...
Inside AnyVivo, The YC ...
AnyVivo , a startup that launched this spring out of Y Combinator’s Winter 2012 program, has a pretty big mission: It wants to be the e-commerce hub for all living things. You might think that Amazon sells everything, and you’re almost right — but AnyVivo wants to pick...Report: Photo & Vid...
Ever since Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, the search for the next “Instagram of [insert app category here]” has been on. One area many pundits have focused on in this context is video and according to the latest data from mobile app analytics company...Give Your Silver Tongue...
Conference calls aren’t always the most interesting things to take part in, but they can be just as much a hassle to set up as they are to sit though. That’s where a new app called GroupCall comes in — developed by the folks over at Parlor , GroupCall aims to make...
With 125M Views, These ...
YouTube has announced the next class of creators to go through its YouTube Next program, this time focusing on vloggers . The video site originally announced the initiative about six weeks ago, and today it is announcing the 16 vloggers who will get some cash and advice to take their...Viewbix Raises $2M to B...
Israeli-based Viewbix is announcing a Round A of $2M led by Canaan Partners, with participation by Longfellow Venture Partners. Viewbix makes it really easy and quick to create interactive videos that are augmented by various features such as eBay listings, Skype buttons, and Twitter...JumpTap: Kindle Fire Us...
The Kindle Fire from Amazon has stolen a march in the tablet world, with some estimating that it now makes up more than half of all Android tablets in use in the U.S. today. But the latest monthly figures from mobile ad network JumpTap today paint a different picture in terms of usage....
Crowdfunding: $1.5B Rai...
Well, it’s been quite a year already for the crowdfunding industry. With the JOBS Act becoming law , the tech industry (and the economy) are headed for some big changes. Namely, the legalization of crowdfunding in startups for non-accredited investors has come to pass. Yes, now...