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| 19.11.2024 | Descope's New Features: A Game Changer for E-commerce Security and User Experience | In the fast-paced world of e-commerce, the balance between user experience and security is like walking a tightrope. One misstep can lead to lost sales or data breaches. Descope, a customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform, is... |
| 18.11.2024 | New features from Descope strike the balance between user experience and security | New features from Descope strike the balance between user experience and security
Descope, the drag-and-drop customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform, is unveiling a variety of new advancements designed to enhance the custome... |
| 14.08.2024 | The Rise of Innovative Solutions in Consumer Goods | In the fast-paced world of consumer goods, innovation is the lifeblood that fuels growth. Companies are constantly seeking ways to streamline operations, reduce costs, and enhance customer experiences. Two recent developments highlight this... |
| 08.08.2024 | Settle Launches First Accounts Payable Solution to Automate Landed Costs for CPG Brands | The new offerings streamline and automate manual tasks, empowering brands to reduce errors, save time, and focus on growth
NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Settle, the leading cash-flow management platform, today announced two new pro... |
| 01.09.2015 | White House hires former Facebooker Josh Miller as its first digital product director | Days ago, Branch cofounder Josh Miller left Facebook with little explanation. Now we know what he’s doing next.
The young founder revealed on his personal blog today that he’s immediately starting a new role as the White House’s first direc... |
| 01.09.2015 | White House hires former Facebooker Josh Miller as its first digital product director | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Days ago, Branch cofounder Josh Miller left Faceb... |
| 03.06.2015 | After Facebook Acqui-Hired Branch Media In 2014, Founders Shutter Branch (And Potluck) | Another day, another acqui-hired shutdown, albeit a pretty long, drawn-out one. Branch Media, acquired by Facebook in January 2014, has shut down the two sites that it created, online “conversations” site Branch.com and its conceptual oppos... |
| 27.07.2014 | The VP of Devil’s Advocacy | MG Siegler Contributor
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| 07.05.2014 | Apple iOS 8 Preview: Everything We’re Expecting | In less than a month, Apple will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. Apple typically uses this event to unveil new versions of its mobile and desktop operating systems, and WWDC 2014 should be no dif... |
| 02.05.2014 | Twitter’s Plan To Appeal To The Masses: Demolish The “Town Square” | Reports of Twitter’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
Yes, the social network is experiencing slow growth. Sure, Twitter is implementing a slew of changes that will transform it into a website very different from the text-based social n... |
| 24.01.2014 | How To Successfully “Neg” Facebook | “Facebook may have an irreversibly bad brand,” wrote 22-year old Branch founder Josh Miller in December 2012 in a post about his 15-year old sister’s predilections for social apps. Almost a year later, his chat startup was acquired by Faceb... |
| 15.01.2014 | Facebook Acquires Branch Media | Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) acquired Branch Media, a New York City-based startup that builds social products to empower conversation.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
According to Josh Miller, who posted a note on Facebook (read h... |
| 13.01.2014 | Facebook picks up social sharing service Branch Media | Deal reportedly worth $15 million; Branch team will be forming Facebook's Conversations group
Facebook's newest goal is to get the best content to its users, and get them to share it with their friends.. That is why it was reported this pas... |
| 13.01.2014 | Facebook snaps up conversation app Branch for $15M, which was backed by Twitter's cofounders | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Branch is taking its online forum-esque smarts to... |
| 13.01.2014 | Facebook Acquires Branch Media Team To Lead New “Conversations” Group | It looks like Facebook has acquired Branch Media, the startup behind conversation service Branch and link-sharing service Potluck.
Co-founder Josh Miller made the announcement on Facebook. He said his team will be forming a new Conversation... |
| 21.11.2013 | Link-Sharing Service Potluck’s New App Combines Messaging And News, Including Original Content | Everything’s a messaging app now! Potluck, the link-sharing service from the team behind the social conversation service Branch, began as a simple tool allowing users to share their interesting findings from around web with a community wher... |
| 01.09.2013 | 20 Tech People on Twitter with the Most Followers | In high school, the tech geeks weren't exactly popular. Despite my own affinity for Star Trek gadgetry and love for computers, I definitely kept all of it a secret from anyone at school. Now that I'm an adult (or kinda something like that),... |
| 18.08.2013 | Goldfinger: The Next iPhone | MG Siegler Contributor
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| 17.07.2013 | 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 better serve its larger goal of bringing t... |
| 27.06.2013 | As Snapchat Grows Up, It Must Retain Its Youth | It has been quite a week for Snapchat. The young company closed a huge $80 million Series A round at an $800 million pre-money valuation. Young co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy earned a cool $10 million each in a secondary offering... |
| 25.06.2013 | From The Team Behind Branch, Potluck Is A New Link-Sharing Service For The Internet’s “Lurkers” Who Don’t Tweet Or Blog | 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 thoughtful, quality discussions on the we... |
| 05.04.2013 | What Apple’s Jony Ive Can Learn From Facebook Home | Facebook Home, which Facebook has described both as “a new way to turn your Android phone into a great, living, social phone” and “the best version of Facebook there is,” won’t be available on Apple’s iPhone anytime soon, if ever. Does Appl... |
| 03.04.2013 | Rumors swirl about iOS 7 delays, UI overhauls, and more | reader comments 97 with 63 posters participating
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Apple has reportedly begun pulling engineers off OS X 10.9 in order to make sure iOS 7 ships in a timely manner, according ... |
| 16.02.2013 | The Rise Of Company Builders | Entrepreneur-turned-investor is a classic story arc in Silicon Valley but recently the plot has earned a twist. Certain operators are foregoing the traditional path of joining a traditional VC to instead create a studio-like holding operati... |
| 06.02.2013 | Startup-advising robot dino FAKE GRIMLOCK moves to books to terrorize us in print (Q & A) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Crazy robot dinosaur FAKE GRIMLOCK is known for g... |
| 23.01.2013 | With Apple, What A Difference A Week Makes | You know the drill, Apple posts a record $54.5 billion in revenue…
…and the stock tanks 10 percent in after-hours trading.
I mean. Fifty four and a half billion dollars. I went ahead and did the math: that’s an annual run-rate of $218 billi... |
| 21.01.2013 | Branch Adds Personalized Recommendations To Help You Find Good Conversations | Branch launched out of closed beta only last week, but the engineering team is hard at work pushing out new feature updates. Today, the company announced that logged-in users will now see recommendations when they visit the homepage, from p... |
| 14.01.2013 | Social Conversation Platform Branch Launches To Public, Encourages Users To “Write Like You Talk” With Shorter Thread Starters | Branch, a startup focused on enabling high quality public conversations on the web, is today launching to the public. The company is notably backed by the Obvious Corporation, the incubator from Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Willia... |
| 14.01.2013 | Branch Emerges From Beta and Opens to the Public With a Slew of New Features | (Photo: Branch)
Conversation platform Branch announced in a post on its blog today that it is now out of invite-only beta and open to the public. With no more wait list, users can sign up immediately to start a conversation or group on Bran... |
| 11.01.2013 | Three ways Android is kicking the iPhone 5 to the curb | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Peter Yared is the CTO at CBS Interactive. This story originally appeared on Cnet.
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| 21.11.2012 | Startup News: Ev Williams Hires a Literary Darling and Branch Finally Lets You Bro Out | Mr. Williams. (Photo: Wikipedia.org)
Power Literary Hire: Twitter cofounder Ev Williams’s new publishing tool, Medium, just added an impressive member to its team. Kate Lee, a former literary agent from International Creative Management (IC... |
| 11.10.2012 | Your Twitter Hashtag Chats Are Ruining My Life. Please Stop | Having a conversation on Twitter is like gabbing in the front row of a rock concert. You have to yell to be heard, and that annoys everyone around you. Yet for some reason, people engage in hashtag chats on Twitter. Hashtag chats are not on... |
| 10.10.2012 | Startup News: Lerer Ventures Looks for a Hustler, Branch Steals From Twitter, BaubleBar Gets Brick and Mortar | (Photo: twitter.com)
Non Hustlers Need Not Apply Lerer Ventures is looking to hire a new analyst. The job requires one or two years of experience at a venture backed startup or major tech company. You have to also be “a sweet and cool perso... |
| 02.09.2012 | 4 Pro Tips For Publishers Building A Native Ad Strategy | Editor’s note: Dan Greenberg is the founder & CEO of Sharethrough, the native video advertising company. Dan has been honored as an AdAge “Media Maven” and was recently named to the Forbes “30 under 30″ list. You can find him on Twitter... |
| 02.09.2012 | Iterations: The New Movable Type | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah (@semil) is currently an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners
Back in the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg changed the world with movable type, laying a foundation for a new printing press to spread ideas faster. Fast... |
| 20.08.2012 | YC Startup Healthy Labs Wants To Be The Go-To Site For People Living With Chronic Illness | In recent years, it’s become so that people online can find reliable information from vetted individuals on well-designed websites that specialize in a lot of topics. Want to know what it’s like to be an employee at Zynga during its recent ... |
| 16.08.2012 | What Is the Point of . . . Branch? | Whenever a new Web trend comes along, there are people who ask, “What is the point of this?” If millions of people are using something, there has to be a reason. In our What Is the Point of… series, we’ll explain it to you.
This week, we’re... |
| 16.08.2012 | 5 Reasons Why Web Publishing is Changing (Again) | We’re witnessing another sea change in Web publishing. From Pinterest at the beginning of this year to the launch this week of a new product from two Twitter founders, Medium, 2012 has been a year where the norms of publishing are being cha... |
| 14.08.2012 | Straight Outta Beta, Branch Finally Addresses the Important Questions | Maybe it’s the scarf?
Less than a day since it switched out of private beta, Branch is already proving that its civilized discussion platform can house more than dry tech speculation or a chorus of bubble cant. Today, fellow Betaworker Laur... |
| 13.08.2012 | Obvious-Backed Branch Comes Out Of Public Beta To Foster Conversations Online | Back in March, Obvious Corporation, the mini accelerator founded by Biz Stone, Ev Williams and early Twitter employee Jason Goldman, announced its second incubation in Branch, a stealth startup co-founded by developers Josh Miller, Cemre Gü... |
| 13.08.2012 | The revolutionary new Branch, the anti-Twitter from Twitter is … an online forum | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Obvious Corp, the incubator owned by Twitter foun... |
| 13.08.2012 | The revolutionary new Branch, the anti-Twitter from Twitter is … an online forum | Obvious Corp, the incubator owned by Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone, has pushed Branch out of the nest. Branch, which aims to help the world have better, deeper, and more human conversations online, launched out of private bet... |
| 20.07.2012 | Students Seeking Startup Workshops: Lean Startup Machine Announces Scholarship Program | Lean Startup Machine wants to bring some young blood to its startup workshops — on its own dime.
The new initiative was supposedly inspired by the founders of Branch, a startup that aims “to turn the Internet’s monologues into dialogues” an... |
| 04.07.2012 | Remember When Google Was A Search Engine? | The lineup of products announced at Google I/O last week was disorienting: JellyBean, Nexus 7, Nexus Q, Google Glass, an updated Google Maps, Google Now and so on. It was about as disorienting as reading and navigating through the entire Wi... |
| 02.05.2012 | Branching Out: How Josh Miller Went From Princeton Dropout to Alley Darling in Just Nine Months | On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Josh Miller, the precocious 21-year-old Princeton dropout behind Branch, one of tech’s most buzzed-about new startups, took The Observer on a tour of the Obvious Corporation, a growing operation helmed by th... |
| 09.04.2012 | The Perks of Being a Developer | On a handout provided at the “How to Hire Developers in a Competitive Market” workshop a few weeks ago, a long list of descriptors attempted to serve up some insight into the psyche of developers. Among the more typical dev stereotypes like... |
| 30.03.2012 | Former Facebook Social Design Evangelist Says Facebook Model Is ‘Self-Serving, Egocentric’ | Mr. Fisher. (LinkedIn)
Branch is billed as a curated discussion platform, but we’ve also found it to be an excellent tool for eavesdropping.
Today, Josh Miller–the founder of Branch who thinks San Francisco is ‘too nice‘–started a conversat... |
| 18.03.2012 | The “Twitter Mafia” Poised to be Silicon Valley’s Next Great Network | Editor’s Note: TechCrunch columnist Semil Shah currently works at Votizen and is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter @semil
In middle school, my teacher assigned a book by Mario Puzo called “The Godfather.” Yes, it was pretty ... |
| 17.03.2012 | The September Problem | All right. That’s it. You kids come in off my lawn, gather round the table, throw a log on the Nest, and hear now a tale of the dread and fabled Time Before The Web.
In the beginning, 1 there was Usenet, and it was good: online conversation... |
| 06.03.2012 | Twitter founders “Branch” out, back tool for “high quality public discourse” | Two men famous for creating a communication tool that inspires pointless banter are lending their celebrity to a little-known company looking to build Twitter’s opposite.
Obvious Corporation, the company created by Twitter legends Biz Stone... |
| 06.03.2012 | Twitter founders “Branch” out, back tool for “high quality public discourse” | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Two men famous for creating a communication tool ... |
| 06.03.2012 | With $2M In Tow, Branch Teams Up With Twitter Co-Founders’ Obvious For ‘New Brand Of Discourse’ | Last June, Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone announced that he was stepping back from Twitter to again team up with co-founder Evan Williams and early employee Jason Goldman to re-start The Obvious Corporation — an idea incubator — the one that ... |
| 06.03.2012 | Branch Joins Obvious Corp, Picks Up $2 M. from Lerer Ventures and SV Angel, and Heads East to Betaworks | Branch cofounders via bulletin.branch.com
When you’ve got Evan Williams, John Borthwick, and Max Levchin chatting it up on your “curated discussion platform,” it’s probably just a matter of time before the high-powered investors, incubators... |
| - | SA 100 2014: The Coolest People In New York City Tech | Business Insider New York City has become home to some of the tech industry's most promising companies, including Etsy, MongoDB, and Vice Media.
So we created the Silicon Alley 100 to celebrate people who did the coolest things in the past ... |
