Daily Archives: November 19, 2015


Jonathan Abrams Social news aggregator Nuzzel is unveiling version 2.0 of its website and app — a version that CEO Jonathan Abrams described as “Nuzzel for Everyone.” Nuzzel previously worked by creating a feed of the most-shared stories from the people you follow on Twitter. You can still create that personalized news feed, but the service no longer requires a Twitter login. Instead, you… Read More

Nuzzel Revamps Its Social News App And Raises $1.7M


Russ D'Souza Jack Groetzinger SeatGeek is already a solid way to score tickets for live events, but now you can use it to sell those tickets, too. In a sense, the tickets on SeatGeek are being resold already, but the model relied on aggregating tickets that were put up for sale on other sites. With today’s launch of the SeatGeek Marketplace, anyone can make their tickets available through SeatGeek itself. Read More

SeatGeek Launches A Marketplace Where Anyone Can Sell And Transfer ...




Screen Shot 2015-11-19 at 11.02.32 AM LiquidTalent has today launched out of beta, offering companies a marketplace to find high-quality developer and designer talent on-demand both on the web and mobile. The company was founded by Alex Abelin, Google’s former public affairs manager, and Scott Annan under the premise that developers and designers (as well as the companies hiring them) want to work as freelancers with… Read More

LiquidTalent Launches On-Demand Marketplace For Designers And Developers




tindermatch After a bizarre interview from one of its executives on the day of its IPO pricing, today Match Group, owner of the popular Tinder dating app, listed as a public company, spinning out from its parent IAC. The company yesterday raised $400 million with its IPO priced at $12 per share, and today it opened for trading as $MTCH at $13.50/share, a pop of 12.5%. The company’s $12 share… Read More

Tinder Owner Match Group Debuts On Nasdaq At $13.50/Share, Up ...



tindermatch After a bizarre interview from one of its executives on the day of its IPO pricing, today Match Group, owner of the popular Tinder dating app, listed as a public company, spinning out from its parent IAC. The company yesterday raised $400 million with its IPO priced at $12 per share, and today it opened for trading as $MTCH at $13.50/share, a pop of 12.5%. The company’s $12 share… Read More

Tinder Owner Match Group Debuts On Nasdaq At $13.50/Share, Up ...


phhhoto Phhhoto, the photo-booth event company turned social app, has today announced a new group feature called Party. The new feature will allow users to share Phhhoto’s GIF-style moving photos as group messages, both privately among friends or through the larger Phhhoto community. The company has also announced the close of a $1.5 million seed round, led by Eniac Ventures, with support from… Read More

Phhhoto, With $1.5M In New Seed, Launches Group Gif Sharing



google-shopping As the holiday shopping season starts to get into full swing, Google this morning announced a brand-new design for its Shopping vertical, the Google Shopping search engine. This is the largest mobile redesign the service has had to date, and it offers a variety of new elements aimed at helping consumers better discover and locate products they’re interested in, says Google. That also… Read More

Google Shopping Gets A Mobile Makeover With A Focus On ...


crowdfunding-risk1 A few years ago an enterprising programmer dug through Kickstarter’s data to figure out how many failed projects there really were. Thanks to a trick in the coding, however, none showed up. This system, which was described as an effort to bring the best projects to the fore, worked well for Kickstarter when it was small and the projects were usually tiny. Now, however, the failures are… Read More

When Crowdfunding Fails The Backers Are Left With No Way ...