Can a smartphone messaging app replace the age-old CV in the service industry sector? That’s the premise driving European startup JobToday, which is targeting the fast flow of service and blue collar workers with a mobile app that aims to speed up and simplify the hiring process. It’s today announcing a $10 million Series A round, led by Accel, along with participation from… Read MoreDaily Archives: January 27, 2016
Can a smartphone messaging app replace the age-old CV in the service industry sector? That’s the premise driving European startup JobToday, which is targeting the fast flow of service and blue collar workers with a mobile app that aims to speed up and simplify the hiring process. It’s today announcing a $10 million Series A round, led by Accel, along with participation from… Read More Facebook shares are spiking today, and were up as much as 13 percent after the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings.
The culprit? Once again, the company completely crushed expectations for its operating quarter. Facebook brought in $5.84...
Facebook Spikes 12% After Smashing Q4 Earnings
SprinkleBit, a startup that helps you invest with guidance from friends and experts, has raised $10 million in new funding from GTC.
It’s not a new idea to tap into the wisdom of the crowds to do better on the stock market, but SprinkleBit offers a unique tool called the Value Prediction Index, or VPI — each stock gets scored based on whether the community thinks its price will… Read MoreSocial Investing Startup SprinkleBit Raises $10M
Everything at Facebook seems to be growing, according to Mark Zuckerberg’s Q4 earnings call comments. Facebook now sees 100 million hours of daily video watch time. There are 1 billion monthly users now users on Groups, up from 925 million at the close of Q3. 80 million people use Facebook’s stripped down app Facebook Lite for the developing world’s slow connections, up from… Read MoreFacebook Hits 100M Hours Of Video Watched A Day, 1B ...
Olympus' latest camera is the highest-end model in the PEN lineup, combining OMD-level specs with a classic aesthetic.
The post Olympus’ Classy Old-School Camera Sports New-School Specs appeared first on WIRED.
Olympus’ Classy Old-School Camera Sports New-School Specs
By courting users and ad dollars in the developing world, Facebook continued its growth streak. It hit 1.59 billion users today and crushed the street’s estimates in its Q4 2015 earnings with $5.841 billion in revenue and $0.79 earnings per share. That’s up from 1.55 billion users and $4.5 billion in revenue last quarter. Even with Q4 being the holidays, that 29.8% QoQ… Read MoreFacebook Climbs To 1.59 Billion Users And Crushes Q4 Estimates ...
Normally, a 6 percent drop in a stock price is somewhat significant but probably wouldn’t be considered a huge deal. But it’s a different story for Apple, where a 6 percent drop erases tens of billions of dollars in value. That’s exactly what happened during trading today following the company’s earnings report last night, which signaled the company’s first… Read MoreApple Tumbles 6.5% After Growth Flattens
NextGenVest, a startup out of New York, is setting out to become a new kind of trustworthy financial entity. And to do that, it’s tackling a big problem. Every year in the US a staggering $2.9 billion goes unclaimed in students grants because the financial aid process has become tortuously complex. Furthermore, the ratio of guidance counselors to students is 500 to 1 nationally, with 20%… Read MoreNextGenVest Uses Snapchat To Send Money Tips To Millennial Students
Quora is going to let companies pay cash to incentivize great answers to their burning questions. It’s a forceful way to squeeze private insights into its public question and answer site, which has quietly grown to 80 million unique visitors — 50% in the US and 15% from India. Read MoreQuora Turns 80M Visitors Into Q&A Bounty Hunters With Knowledge ...
Google announced today a couple of updates to the commenting features in its Google Apps productivity suite.
These include the launch of mobile commenting in the iOS and Android apps for Slides and Sheets. Thanks to this, the commenting experience in Google’s apps is now (almost) the same across all of its apps — whether on the web or on mobile. I’m not sure why Google… Read More