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Mobile Messaging App Tango Debuts A Content Platform, Will Now Power The...
Tango, a mobile messaging and video calling app with now over 120 million members worldwide, is expanding its service by opening its platform to third-party developers. By integrating the newly...
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Social Video Network Keek Passes 45M Users, Adding Over 24M Users Since...
Toronto-based social video network Keek has seen some tremendous growth recently, adding on 24 million users in just four months to bring its network to a total reach of 45 million registered members....
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Eric Schmidt-Backed Slice Moves Beyond Receipt Tracking With Debut Of...
Is there room for another social network for book lovers, now that the biggest, Goodreads, has been snatched up by the largest online retailer (and Kindle maker) Amazon? Slice thinks so. Today, the...
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Chirpify Goes Beyond PayPal To Bring Direct, In-Stream Payments To Facebook,...
Facebook and Twitter have become stellar venues for brands and small businesses alike to advertise their wares. However, while social-style gift-giving has seen some traction thanks to Facebook, social...
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Blackboard Co-Founder Michael Chasen Raises $12.75M Series A For SocialRadar,...
If you thought the “ambient location” craze has passed, prepare to be surprised. A company called SocialRadar is announcing today that it has raised $12.75 million in Series A funding from NEA, Grotech...
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New Bing Experiment Adds Curated Lists Of Links, Images And Videos From...
Microsoft today announced a new experiment for its Bing search engine that’s a bit different from the usual social search and algorithm updates we’ve come to expect from the service. Bing Boards, as...
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Meet Cody, The Casual Fitness Coach And Social Discovery Tool For Everyone Else
Today, there’s a long list of apps and services that sit at the intersection of fitness and mobile technology and leverage everything from social dynamics and behavioral economics to Quanitifed...
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From The Team Behind Branch, Potluck Is A New Link-Sharing Service For The...
The team behind the social conversation platform Branch is today launching a new venture with Potluck, a service which seems almost the complete inverse of the company’s earlier efforts at inspiring...
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Tesco Will Work With A South African Empowerment Project To Create The First...
I usually don’t like potentially viral feel-good PR BS from tech companies – let alone grocery chain Tesco – but, as a lush, I’m slightly intrigued by this campaign. Basically the chain is working with...
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Origami Labs Acquires FamilyLeaf, A Competing Private Social Network For...
Origami, the Y Combinator-backed social network for families which just launched to the public this month, has acquired competing service FamilyLeaf, another YC company. Financial terms of the deal are...
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With Version 2.0, Social Event Planner UpTo Is On A Mission To Reinvent The...
Since its launch in early 2012, Detroit-based UpTo has been on a mission to re-invent the mobile calendar by giving it a new type of social context. Through its Android and iPhone app, UpTo attempts to...
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Tattoo Hero Wants To Bring Tattoo-Seekers And Artists Together For Beautiful...
One of the startups showing their stuff at Montreal’s International Startup Festival this year is Tattoo Hero, an Ottawa-based startup building a portal on the web to help connect those looking for...
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Red Hot Dating App Tinder Officially Arrives On Android, Begins Hooking Up...
The Digital Dating World has seen its fair share of companies come and go over the years, and few have been able to give the usual suspects, like eHarmony, Match.com and OkCupid, a run for their...
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Built By Ex-Googlers, Viewfinder Is A Cross Between Photo Organization &...
New York and Seattle-based Viewfinder is officially debuting a mobile application which aims to serve as something between a photo organization utility and private social network. Built by a team of...
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Tumblr-Endorsed Analytics Platform Union Metrics Now Free For Individuals,...
Union Metrics, providers of the first Tumblr-endorsed analytics platform for the now Yahoo-owned blog network, is upgrading its feature set today and introducing lower-cost and free tiers to its...
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Weathermob Raises $650K More To Turn Smartphones Into Mini Weather Stations
Weathermob, a mobile, social network centered around crowdsourced weather reporting, has raised an additional $650,000 in new funding today from a number of angel investors, including Mark Hastings,...
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Potluck, The Link-Sharing Service For The Rest Of Us, Arrives On iPhone
Potluck, the new link-sharing service from the team behind social conversation platform Branch, has now arrived on the iPhone, where Branch CEO and co-founder Josh Miller believes it may be able to...
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Memorability Lets You Create & Narrate Beautiful iPad Photo Books, No...
There’s no shortage of mobile photo book applications on the market today, but a majority of these are focused on taking digital creations and turning them into offline, printed products. Memorability,...
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iPhone Most Social Device, Claims New Study From ShareThis
The mobile web is more social than the desktop web, and among mobile devices, the iPhone is the most social. These are the new findings from Palo Alto-based publisher platform ShareThis, which is today...
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Video Texting App Glide Is Going Viral, Now Ranked Just Ahead Of Instagram In...
Video chatting app Glide is on a roll of sorts. In recent weeks this mobile messenger for iPhone and Android devices has been climbing the app store charts on both platforms, having gotten as high as...
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