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| Jul 16, 2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 7/16/16 | Google acquired Kifi; eBay bought SalesPredict and Ticket Utils; Pinterest purchased Math Camp
Google acquired Kifi, an app for collecting links from across the Internet, which teams could then collaborate on. No financial terms of the deal... |
| Jul 14, 2016 | Pinterest acquires the team behind mobile apps Highlight and Shorts | Pinterest announced that it has acquired the team at Math Camp, the company that produced the location-based app Highlight and also photo-sharing app Shorts. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but both cofounders Paul Davison a... |
| Jul 14, 2016 | Pinterest acquires the team behind mobile apps Highlight and Shorts | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Pinterest announced that it has acquired the team at Math Camp, the company that produced the location-based app Highlight and also pho... |
| Jul 14, 2016 | Pinterest acquires Math Camp to drive mobile discovery | Math Camp, the company behind apps such as Highlight and Shorts, will be shutting down
With so much of its attention focused on shopping and commerce, Pinterest has become all about discovery, and getting people to the right content so they... |
| Mar 8, 2016 | Highlight’s new Shorts app lets you meet people based on photos they’ve taken | Four years ago, Highlight debuted at South by Southwest’s interactive conference, just as location-based meetup services were enjoying a surge of interest. Today, it has launched its second app, called Shorts, which is based on the same con... |
| Mar 8, 2016 | Highlight’s new Shorts app lets you meet people based on photos they’ve taken | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Four years ago, Highlight debuted at South by Southwest’s interactive conference, just as location-based meetup services were enjoying ... |
| Aug 6, 2014 | Proof of the Seattle Freeze? People Take Fewer In-Person Meetings via App | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here’s some possible evidence of the Seattle Freeze, that social ill that gives Seattleites a reputation for being superficially friendly but non-committal to newcomers: Peopl... |
| Jul 16, 2014 | Happn Is A Dating App Powered By Real Life Interactions | It’s a sunny Wednesday afternoon, you’re sitting outside at a café in Paris. You see this beautiful person who is about to leave, and you get a warm fuzzy feeling. Unfortunately, you don’t have time to introduce yourself, they’re already go... |
| Dec 15, 2013 | Highlight Raises $4M in Funding | Highlight, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a local networking app, raised $4m in funding.
According to TechCrunch, the round was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson with participation from existing investors Benchmark and CrunchFund and ne... |
| Dec 12, 2013 | Highlight Raises $4 Million From DFJ, Releases Version 2.0 Of Its Location-Based Social Networking App | Location-based social startup Highlight has just released a new version of its app, aimed at being smarter about the connections it shows, while also giving users more context about what those connections have been up to. The company also h... |
| Sep 15, 2013 | For Mobile Developers, iOS 7 Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Leading up to last week’s Apple event and the unveiling of the iPhone 5s, th... |
| Sep 4, 2013 | Galaxy Gear Gets Social With Integrated Apps | Samsung revealed the Galaxy Gear today, the smartwatch that brings Samsung into the arm race.
Like the smartphone you keep in your pocket, the Galaxy Gear will integrate social applications that can be operated from your wrist. Path, Highli... |
| Aug 1, 2013 | 1Mind enters social discovery field with $500K | Another mobile ambient awareness app emerges, with a twist
I've been following a couple of mobile discovery apps for some time. In 2011, we first covered Glancee, a new way to find Facebook friends who were nearby. Glancee was an eventual a... |
| Jun 19, 2013 | FABulous funding Wednesday: From gay social network to billion-dollar design store | It was a big day for funding. Here’s the quick overview with links to full stories.
Fab raises $150M
Fab announced last night that it has raised $150 million in a fourth round of funding led by Chinese company Tencent, which is also appoint... |
| Jun 19, 2013 | FABulous funding Wednesday: From gay social network to billion-dollar design store | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It was a big day for funding. Here’s the quick overview with links to full stories.
Fab raises $150M
Fab announced last night that it h... |
| Jun 19, 2013 | Former Blackboard CEO raises $12.75M for SocialRadar to force serendipity | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SocialRadar has raised $12.75 million to, well, build out your social radar.
Its application combines location-based mobile technology ... |
| Apr 1, 2013 | April Fools 2013: The Ultimate Round-Up | Happy April First, errybody! Yes, that’s right, we’ve reached that special, inimitable time of year. April Fools Day 2013. At TechCrunch, we have a long history of taking April Fools seriously. Deadly, deadly seriously. So, we’ve taken it u... |
| Mar 31, 2013 | Iterations: Calendar Frenzy, Google Now, and Apple’s “Anticipatory Computing” Problem | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Now that the Mailbox sale to Dropbox is complete, let’s move on to the next native iOS app that everyone wants to replace: The Calendar. Yes,... |
| Mar 12, 2013 | Highlight Brings Location-Based Ice Pops To SXSW | This is the second SXSW for location-based/social/mobile/photo app Highlight, but the company has come a long way since March 2012. Last year to market the app there were just a couple of guys — the founders — walking around Austin in Highl... |
| Mar 5, 2013 | Ahead Of SXSW, Highlight Adds New Photo Features And A Map View To See People And Places Nearby | Just a few weeks ago, social-local-mobile app Highlight announced a big new update that would add photos and events — just in time for SXSW! Well, now we have another just-in-time update of Highlight version 1.5, which is adding more photo ... |
| Feb 20, 2013 | Ahead of SXSW, Highlight Makes Another Bid For SoLoMo Supremacy With Photos And Events | It’s South By Southwest time again, and you know what that means — it’s time for another round of apps to announce launches and updates to help make your mandatory fun time in Austin, Texas that much better. Today, social-local-mobile app H... |
| Dec 16, 2012 | The Air Above Our Heads: The Growth Of Ambient Social Networking | Editor’s note: Paul Davison is the CEO and founder of Highlight, named by Apple as an “App Store Best of 2012.” Follow Paul on Twitter at @pdavison.
When I was young, my dad told me about the short story by H.G. Wells, “The Country of the B... |
| 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... |
| Sep 6, 2012 | Is Mixer The Mobile Social Location-Based App We’ve Been Looking For? Maybe… | In the last few months we’ve seen the rise of location-based mobile networking the likes of which some people envisioned a while ago but few executed on. And the executions are patchy but often interesting. Banjo aggregates geo-tagged infor... |
| Aug 5, 2012 | Computer, Walk With Me | Editor’s note: Gentry Underwood is a software designer and entrepreneur who co-founded Orchestra, Bring a Trailer, and formerly led the Knowledge Sharing domain at IDEO. You can find him on Twitter at @gentry.
Let’s start with the obvious: ... |
| Jul 7, 2012 | Bringing Technologies To Mobile Applications | Editor’s note: GD (Ram) Ramkumar is a serial entrepreneur and computer scientist. He was founder and CTO of SnapTell (acquired by Amazon in 2009) and is now the Founder and CEO of Concept.io, a new mobile startup. He holds a Ph.D. in Comput... |
| Jun 24, 2012 | ‘Find Friends Nearby’: Facebook’s New Mobile Feature For Finding People Around You [Updated] | Facebook has created a new feature that lets users find friends and potential friends nearby. Currently Initially called “Friendshake” and also accessible through a URL that is the abbreviation of “find friends nearby” (http://fb.com/ffn), ... |
| May 23, 2012 | WhosHere Wants to Remove the Creepiness from Meeting People on an App | For the privacy conscious, some of the hot new applications for meeting people are causing a double take. Apps like Highlight and Banjo are so useful, the story goes – they show you everyone nearby on a map.
They show you everyone nearby on... |
| May 16, 2012 | Where ‘Where are you?’ is: The future of location and discovery | Amber Case of Geoloqi (Photo by Kris Krug)
“There’s a graveyard of geo experiments,” says Amber Case.
She’s the CEO and co-founder of Geoloqi, a company that helps mobile developers integrate, track and measure their users’ location data, a... |
| May 8, 2012 | Why Location-Based Services Will Create Multiple Winners At The Application Layer | Editor’s Note: TechCrunch columnist Semil Shah currently works at Votizen and is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter @semil
Location, location, location. Whether you’re a real estate agent, a traveler, or building mobile appli... |
| May 7, 2012 | Google Ventures-Backed Location-Sharing Service EchoEcho Raises $750k From Bullpen, PROfounders | EchoEcho is one of the more useful location-based applications on the market today. Instead of focusing on check-ins and deals, the application simply makes it easy for you to find out where your friends are and lets you set up a meeting wi... |
| May 3, 2012 | New Finds At TNW Shows Europe Is Nailing It | European startup conference The Next Web (and now competing blog, hello guys), which took place in Amsterdam last week, was covered in full by seven TNW bloggers who wrote over 30 posts about all major announcements, speeches and competitio... |
| Apr 18, 2012 | Like a Highlight for salespeople, Serendipity creates “chance” business encounters | Serendipity, the latest product from business app developer Taptera, helps Salesforce.com customers view potential sales leads around them on their iPhones.
The app is taking a similar approach to Highlight and Sonar, both apps that help fi... |
| Mar 30, 2012 | Engineering Serendipity | I don’t know if Highlight, Glancee, Banjo, or any one of those other startups you’re now officially sick to death of hearing about are going to make it, but I know that for the first time in a long time, we’re starting to move in the right ... |
| Mar 29, 2012 | Foursquare Adds Bios To Profile Pages, Evolving As A More Self-Contained Social Network | Foursquare today rolled out the ability for users to add short personal “bios” to their profile pages on the site. These bios are limited to 160 characters or less, and can be imported directly from a user’s Twitter account or written from ... |
| Mar 29, 2012 | Highlight CEO: We Have the Potential to Be the Next Twitter, Foursquare | Ambient social networking is taking the world by storm as startups such as Highlight are beginning to resonate with people. In case “ambient social networking” is new to you, it is a location phenomenon that runs silently in the background ... |
| Mar 23, 2012 | Luluvise And Badoo Talk Social Discover Apps At London Web Summit [TCTV] | Suddenly ‘social discovery’ is all the rage with apps like Highlight and Glancee being thoroughly tested during SXSW by 30,000 hot and sweaty social media gurus. But the past-masters at this for the last couple of years has been Badoo, whic... |
| Mar 19, 2012 | Dave Morin Talks Path 2.1, Facebook’s IPO Effect, And Those New Funding Rumors [TCTV] | TechCrunch TV talked to Path co-founder and CEO Dave Morin last week while we were at the South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. It’s always interesting to talk to Morin, who is widely regarded as one of the most well-c... |
| Mar 19, 2012 | Glancee’s SXSW Adventure: Battling Bad WiFi, Battery Drain & The Silicon Valley Mafia | Ironically we couldn’t find each other. I’d arranged to meet Glancee founder and CEO Andrea Vaccari at 2pm in the Hilton Austin lobby, during the height of SXSW Interactive. But with hundreds of geeks running around, I couldn’t see him anyw... |
| Mar 18, 2012 | Why Highlight Wasn’t A Breakout Success At SXSW | [Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur who created Onesheet, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. He’s a mentor for 500 Startups and several startups. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan.]
Highlight is one of t... |
| Mar 17, 2012 | Robert Scoble Talks Startups And The Changing Face Of SXSW [TCTV] | Earlier this week, TechCrunch TV hosted a live show from the floor of the convention center at the South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas and we were really pleased to have technology evangelist and early-stage startup h... |
| Mar 16, 2012 | An Interview with Paul Davison, CEO And Founder of Highlight | Who won SXSW? The question is almost as silly as it is inevitable. Every year, we use the Austin-based technology conference to gauge what the next big thing is going to be.
If forced to choose who won SXSW 2012, however, undoubtedly Highli... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Gary Sharma’s SXSW 2012 Highlights: Jay-Z, Leo DiCaprio, Pool Parties, Grilled Cheese Eating Contests & More | Storyful's Erica Berger, ABC News' Maya Baratz, The Today Show's Rina Raphael and Fashism's Ashley Granata & Brooke Moreland hanging out at TheDaily's now epic Pool Party @ SXSW 2012. (Photo: Nick McGlynn)
This is a guest post from Gary... |
| Mar 13, 2012 | How Glancee And Highlight Are Fixing Those Background Location And Notification Problems | Somewhere off in the future, there will be a mobile app that shows you all of the nearby people who you might find interesting — without you having to click a single button to check in. But we’re not there yet, as thousands of South By Sout... |
| Mar 12, 2012 | Social Discovery Apps Like Highlight Are A Recruiter’s Wet Dream At SXSW | The history of location-based social discovery apps is a lot longer than the current hype surrounding Highlight and Glancee, currently darlings of the South by Southwest festival.
Back in 2007 TechCrunch’s founder Mike Arrington noted the e... |
| Mar 11, 2012 | At SXSW, apps buzz is location, location, location | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jessica Weaver, center, hands out trinkets advertising the new mobile app "Highlight" to passers-by outside the SXSW Interactive Festival and Conference in Austin, Texas on Saturday, March 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Jack... |
| Mar 9, 2012 | Highlight vs. Banjo: 2 Approaches to Social Discovery | Social discovery – finding people nearby whom you might want to meet – is shaping up to be a startup trend this year. And what better way to test drive this new crop of apps than at SXSW, an over 15,000-person event where everyone is dashin... |
| Mar 8, 2012 | Gauss Wants to be the People Magnet For Your Pocket | Social bridging: a mobile application built to bridge the gap between on and offline social interaction based upon proximity, mutual friends and interests – is a term I just made up to describe a trend to look for at this year's SXSWi. It's... |
| Mar 8, 2012 | Location App Highlight Gets Clever Update That Features… Highlights | There are a few use cases for hot background location app Highlight, cofounder Paul Davison explains to me when showing off the latest update. You just met someone and you want them to find out more about you. You want to note that someone ... |
| Mar 8, 2012 | Sonar CEO Brett Martin: “I Do the Exact Opposite of What I Did on Wall Street” | Ice breaker app Sonar is propelling forward: since their launch in May 2011, they’ve quadrupled their employees, ran a partnership with Wired, and started the SonarU program on college campuses.
Available on iOS and in beta on Android (with... |
| Mar 6, 2012 | All The Location Apps You Have To Use At The SXSW Royal Rumble | It’s turning into a royal rumble at SXSW — the sheer number of location-based networking apps hoping to emerge from the conference as this year’s breakout hit is nearly overwhelming. What’s worse, they’re often so similar in nature, so it’s... |
| Mar 3, 2012 | Foursquare And Glancee Are Cool, But Here’s Why I’m So Excited About Using Highlight At SXSW | The crowds and hype of South By Southwest make the massive Austin tech and media conference the perfect place for launching, well, any sort of app that needs crowds and hype to break out of tech circles and into the mainstream. So what can ... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Social startup Highlight nabs new funding from Benchmark & a host of others | 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!
Highlight, the “traveling dossier for people,” ha... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Hot Background Location App Highlight Gets Funding As It Plans SXSW Update | A new generation of location apps is here, just in time for the world’s best event for using them: the South By Southwest music, film and tech extravaganza starting next week in Austin, Texas. Ahead of it, my favorite of the bunch, Highligh... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Mobile App Highlight Gives You A 6th Sense About Who’s Nearby | Checkins are not the future. They interrupt the moment and quickly become outdated. Highlight, a mobile app launching today, offers a better gateway to serendipitous meetups. All you do is download Highlight, turn it on, and let it run pass... |