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| Mar 26, 2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 3/26/16 | AppDirect acquired Xendo; Ebates bought Shopular; Ola purchased Qarth
Influitive, a provider of advocate marketing software, acquired mobile relationship management application Triggerfox. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
Infl... |
| Mar 23, 2016 | FullContact buys Brewster’s technology after team got acqui-hired by Burger King owner RBI | Back in October, we wrote about how the team behind contacts management app Brewster got acqui-hired by RBI, the owner of Burger King and other fast-food brands, where they would work on building tech for RBI and maintain Brewster, which wa... |
| Oct 24, 2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 10/24/15 | NASDAQ acquired SecondMarket Solutions; Time bought Hello Giggles; Docker picked up Tutum
NASDAQ acquired transaction software provider SecondMarket Solutions. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
SecondMarket will be integrated i... |
| Oct 23, 2015 | Brewster Contacts App Team Gets Acqui-Hired By Burger King Owner RBI, Brewster Lives On | We’ve heard a lot about software eating the world; now a company that has built its business around food is now eating up a software startup. Restaurant Brands International, owner of Burger King and Horton’s, is acqui-hiring the team from ... |
| Dec 2, 2014 | The Grind vs The Pivot | Everyone knows what a pivot is. You launch something, it fails to get product market fit, so you change direction and launch something different. There are many examples of successful pivots. Flickr, Twitter, Slack, and Kik all came out of ... |
| Nov 7, 2014 | Accounts Launches A New Address Book For iOS That Tracks Your Many Identities | An application called Accounts, live now on iOS to start, is a new attempt at developing a universal address book. While many competitors that have gone before it have focused on aggregating user accounts from the major social networks – li... |
| Oct 3, 2014 | Brewster’s Merged Contact Book Now Works With iCloud, Google Accounts And Messaging Apps | The average mobile-carrying consumer today has around 1,600 contacts when apps, email and a phone’s address book are added up. A startup called Brewster wants to make that list easier to use.
Launched as a native app in 2012 with a mission ... |
| Feb 25, 2014 | Connect Debuts A “Living” Address Book That Maps Your Nearby Friends | Connect, a new location-based address book and friend-finder utility launching today for both web and iPhone, will tell you who’s nearby, allowing for more “serendipitous” encounters. If that idea sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because a cro... |
| Jan 15, 2014 | FullContact Acquires Cobook To Build A Better Universal Address Book | Cobook, the scrappy startup out of Latvia which grew its universal address book application to over a million users, is being acquired by FullContact, a larger Denver-based operation also working on contact management solutions for business... |
| Sep 26, 2013 | WriteThat.Name’s New Chrome Extension Updates Your Address Book Or CRM With Contact Info Found Online | After a little bit of a rough start, the automatic address book updating service WriteThat.Name has become one of my preferred “set it and forget it” tools for keeping things organized. Built by Paris-based Kwaga, WriteThat.Name is one of t... |
| Aug 16, 2013 | Startups Apparently Do Not Care That Android Is Better | In a must-read post for the tech industry, Twitter experience designer and serial startup founder Paul Stamatiou writes: “Android is Better.” His op-ed serves as something of a wake-up call for the industry, where developers building the ne... |
| Jul 30, 2013 | Contact Syncing App Sync.ME Launches ME Card, Another Attempt To Create A Unified Contact Card | It’s been tried many times before. A way to keep all of your contact details up-to-date and have any changes automatically pushed to everyone in your address book, instead of having to email them or send an SMS and hope they ‘got the memo’.... |
| May 28, 2013 | Google Play Still Missing Top App Titles From iOS, Many Of Which Are Games | Many of today’s tech companies and startups are still building their apps for iOS first, despite Android’s growing market share. The problem stems from a lack of in-house talent, fewer Android-owning beta testers, technical hurdles, fragmen... |
| May 1, 2013 | Brewster Brings Its Personalized, Mobile Address Book To The Web With Easy Contact Sharing | Brewster launched late last year with a simple goal: Replace your tired old A-to-Z contact list with an address book that actually understands your relationships and, in turn, helps you become a better friend. For some of us, this feels lik... |
| Apr 25, 2013 | Punky Brewster turned ‘momtrepeneur’ raises $2.5M to boost family creativity | Since starring in the popular 1980s kids show Punky Brewster, Soleil Moon Frye has dabbled in acting, directing, and screenwriting. Today, ‘Internet entrepreneur’ adds to that list with the announcement that she is launching a startup backe... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Errplane (YC W13) launches performance monitoring and alert service for web apps - New Relic, Pingdom, Airbrake all in one | Errplane, a new Y Combinator-backed service for monitoring performance, uptime and errors for any type of web application, has officially launched its service. Currently, Errplane argues, developers need a number of different services like ... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Y Combinator-Backed Errplane Launches Comprehensive Performance Monitoring And Alert Service For Web Apps | Errplane, a new Y Combinator-backed service for monitoring performance, uptime and errors for any type of web application, has officially launched its service. Currently, Errplane argues, developers need a number of different services like ... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Errplane (YC W13) launches performance monitoring and alert service for web apps – New Relic, Pingdom, Airbrake all in one | Errplane, a new Y Combinator-backed service for monitoring performance, uptime and errors for any type of web application, has officially launched its service. Currently, Errplane argues, developers need a number of different services like ... |
| Mar 12, 2013 | Cobook 2.0 Arrives, Bringing An Auto-Updating, Universal Address Book To iPhone | Cobook, a Mac contact management app that made its way over to the iPhone back in December, is today launching version 2.0 of its service which introduces a new feature called “Livecards.” This feature does what everyone wants address books... |
| Dec 6, 2012 | Sync.ME Launches Android Version After Hitting Five Million Installs On iPhone | Cobook, a contact management app alternative to Mac OS X’s default address book, today released its iOS version, which creates a unified address book by syncing your iPhone contacts with data from social networks. But the game just got more... |
| Dec 6, 2012 | Cobook Brings Its Unified Address Book To iPhone | Cobook, which has long offered a contact management app alternative to Mac OS X’s default address book, is today finally available on mobile with the debut of its iOS application. Like its desktop counterpart, the new app creates a unified ... |
| Dec 4, 2012 | Addappt Debuts An Auto-Updating Mobile Address Book For iPhone | Addappt, a new startup from Crossloop co-founder and early LinkedIn employee Mrinal Desai, is officially launching today to tackle the surprisingly still cumbersome problem of maintaining an up-to-date address book. Available in the iPhone ... |
| Oct 21, 2012 | Iterations: The Harsh Realities Of iOS App Distribution | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been an official contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
In this post, I’m going to try illuminate a tactical problem m... |
| Jul 13, 2012 | Brewster’s Address Book App Briefly Exposes Ashton Kutcher’s & Others’ Private Data; Company Says It’s Fixed | Brewster, the hot, new personalized address book app for iPhone, launched to much fanfare this week. But it also launched with a concerning bug. Some users reported they had the ability to see the personal contact information for people the... |
| Jul 12, 2012 | Brewster | Twenty years into the personal technology revolution and we are still using address books that work pretty much like physical address books. It makes no sense. The mobile address book should be hyperconnected to our digital life, informed b... |
| Jul 12, 2012 | Brewster: the iPhone app to help social butterflies stay organized (updated) | Updated with quotes from founder, Steven Greenwood
Kudos to New York City’s tech community, which has produced some of the most promising consumer-facing startups this year. Brewster, a Union Square Ventures-backed iPhone app launched today... |
| Jul 12, 2012 | Brewster | Twenty years into the personal technology revolution and we are still using address books that work pretty much like physical address books. It makes no sense. The mobile address book should be hyperconnected to our digital life, informed b... |
| Hello, Brewster | Over the past six years, we’ve had the privilege of partnering with more than 200 talented Founders pursuing exciting ideas and a wide variety of technology applications, products and services. While their passions have ranged from commerce... |
| 12 ошибок, которые могут погубить стартап в первый же год его существования | 12 ошибок, которые могут погубить стартап в первый же год его существования
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Как известно, 90% стартапов проваливаются. Чаще всего это происходит в первый же год после запуска проекта, и,... |
