Consmr Goes Mobile, Mov...
Back in July of last year, we wrote about a New York City-based startup, called Consmr , which was attempting to build the Yelp, or Rotten Tomatoes of consumer goods. There’s now more web research on consumer goods than ever before, but few resources that use crowdsourced data and...Ask A VC Is Back With S...
Ask a VC, the TCTV show where you ask the questions, is back after a long hiatus and we’re kicking things off with two partners this week from Spark Capital and Andreessen Horowitz! If you’ve got questions about what it’s like to shift from being an entrepreneur to...
Really, Yahoo. What Is ...
When Yahoo hired Scott Thompson as CEO back in January , many at the company were surely hoping that they’d finally found the game-changing leader they’d so sorely needed for years. Now just four months later, Thompson is only serving to highlight the exact deep-rooted...Virurl Raises $1.2M To ...
Virurl , a startup that helps advertisers promote their content virally, is launching its public beta test today. It’s also announcing that it has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. Here’s how the Virurl model works: Advertisers upload the content that they want to promote,...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...
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...
Review: Ernst Benz Offi...
As a big watch nerd , I love sharing cool watches with you guys in hopes that my obsession, as unseemly as it is, will be passed from writer to reader like an STD. This time I was lucky enough to be able to handle the new Ernst Benz Officer ChronoLunar , a huge...
With 70 Million Registe...
We’ve been covering Viber since the very beginning, through the launch of an Android app and the addition of photo/location sharing capabilities , to the moment the company announced 50 million users , 150 million calls, and a billion text messages per month. In fact, those...
Want To Broadcast Live ...
This morning, Google officially rolled out Google+ Hangouts On Air to all users worldwide, following the feature’s limited introduction back in September . At the time of its initial release, this live broadcasting feature allowed top Google+ users (like celebs) to stream live...