Robinhood stock trading app valued at $1.3 billion with big raise from DST
Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood is completing a huge fund raise to fuel its attack on old brokerage firms that charge around $7 to $10 per […]
Month: March 2017
On-demand dog walking startup Wag quietly raised funding from General Catalyst and Sherpa Ventures
Earlier this week we wrote about how two big players in the pet-care business, Rover and DogVacay, decided to merge. Well, sources tell us that over […]
Cloudera posts long-awaited IPO filing
Cloudera, the enterprise big data company that’s received significant backing from Intel, has unveiled its much-anticipated IPO filing. In the S-1, we get a glance at […]
NASA tests robotic tools to crack the surface of icy moons
While the Mars rovers are assiduously searching the red planet for water over the next decade, there are whole moons full of the stuff just […]
How Stories Search makes Snapchat a real-time YouTube
Snapchat is shifting from a social network limited to content shared by people you follow to an ephemeral, real-time database of what’s going on now […]
Amazon quietly launches its own social media influencer program into beta
Social media influencers – like Instagram stars or YouTube celebs – often promote products they like, either as part of a brand relationship or as […]
Twitter is getting rid of the egg avatar (because that will totally fix the abuse problem)
Everyone knows that Twitter has a harassment problem. And while the service has tried things like banning abusive users (both on a temporary and permanent basis) […]
Snapchat now lets you search across over 1 million Stories
Snapchat has opened up search across over 1 million curated public Stories, with a new feature release that could be a very helpful tool not […]
Apple releases new colorful Apple Watch ad
Apple just released a new video ad on its YouTube channel for the Apple Watch Series 2. There are two interesting things about this ad. […]