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| Apr 30, 2015 | No More Secret App For Online Haters | No one in the tech community is happy to see a startup fail. It's an emotional ordeal where jobs are lost and lives are disrupted suddenly. So when news broke that anonymous sharing app Secret shut down, there was disappointment.
Secret's f... |
| Apr 29, 2015 | Secret Shuts Down | [Update: Secret has confirmed it will shut down and give investors back their money]
Anonymous sharing app Secret will shut down soon, according to sources close to the company. The announcement could be made as soon as today or tomorrow, a... |
| Apr 29, 2015 | Anonymous app Secret has closed its doors | The app will be returning what is left of its $35 million venture capital to its investors
Remember when anonymous sharing was all the rage? That was before these apps became synonymous with bullying. Now that issue seems to have taken down... |
| Apr 29, 2015 | Secret shuts down its anonymous messaging app | Anonymous mobile sharing app Secret is closing down.
In a blog post, chief executive David Byttow said he would be sunsetting the service:
This has been the hardest decision of my life and one that saddens me deeply. Unfortunately, Secret d... |
| Mar 27, 2015 | Secret Is Working On New Apps, Won’t Shut Down Original Product | Secret Inc. — makers of the”anonymish” app Secret, which lets users post notes to friends, friends-of-friends, or those in their vicinity without revealing their identities — crashed through the highs and lows of startup life in the last ye... |
| Jan 29, 2015 | Secret Co-Founder Chrys Bader-Wechseler Steps Down Because It’s Not About Design Anymore | One year after founding anonymish app Secret with fellow Googler David Byttow, Chrys Bader-Wechseler is leaving the company on amicable terms. He cites that Secret isn’t about design and curation as much now since it redesigned recently, dr... |
| Jan 5, 2015 | Secret Wants To Be The Stream Of Consciousness For Live Events, Starting With CES | Which panel at this conference isn’t boring? Where’s the after-party? Your friends and followers around the world probably don’t know or care. But people nearby might, and Secret wants to connect you to them. Today Secret launches a CES fee... |
| Dec 12, 2014 | Some things are better left Unsaid | Sydney-based 25Fifteen’s new startup, Unsaid, brings the freedom of anonymous expression used in apps like Whisper and Secret to your workplace.
The office Christmas party, filled with its joyous, awkward moments and drunken encounters maki... |
| Dec 3, 2014 | Kandid, Anonymous Sharing App for Students, Raises $1.4M in Funding | Miami-based startup ShareWhere Inc. announced today that it has raised $1.4 million in seed funding for its anonymous social sharing app Kandid, which is quickly gaining steam on college campuses.
Kandid is allows users to share photos and ... |
| Nov 20, 2014 | Social X offers multiple identities to Facebook users too embarrassed to talk to underwear makers | 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!
Would you be too embarrassed to ask Victoria’s Se... |
| Nov 14, 2014 | Yik Yak Is Close To Closing On Roughly $75 Million | Thank the kids in America for turning Yik Yak into the newest technology craze that’s a parental nightmare and an anonymous messaging juggernaut. Only a year after its launch, the app is now close to closing on roughly $75 million in new fi... |
| Oct 2, 2014 | Selfinception: Frontback Adds Selfie Comments | All your selfies are belong us. Popular photo-sharing app Frontback just received a major update. You will now be able to leave comments on a Frontback post — but not just text comments. With Frontback React, you take a selfie of your react... |
| Oct 1, 2014 | A Top Facebook Executive Apologizes For “Real Names” Policy | After weeks of controversy surrounding Facebook’s “real-names” policy kicked off by a group of drag queens and LGBT supporters, Facebook’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, apologized on behalf of the company for the “hardship” the policy h... |
| Oct 1, 2014 | Are We Already Running Out of Useful Smartphone Apps? | Photo via Flickr user William Hook
The image of a San Francisco cabbie's dashboard loaded up with five phones is proof enough that our course towards a sleek, streamlined future courtesy of technology is hardly proceeding frictionlessly. If... |
| Sep 24, 2014 | Drag queens aren't the only people affected by Facebook's 'real name' policy | The drag community has been fighting with Facebook for weeks regarding the social network’s “real name” policy.
Facebook has been cracking down on the names people are using on the site, forcing them to use the names that are on their gover... |
| Sep 24, 2014 | Drag queens aren't the only people affected by Facebook's 'real name' policy | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The drag community has been fighting with Facebook for weeks regarding the social network’s “real name” policy.
Facebook has been crack... |
| Sep 18, 2014 | Facebook Won’t Budge On Letting Drag Queens Keep Their Names | Facebook will not be changing its real-name policy for the drag queen community. San Francisco drag queens met with representatives from the company yesterday afternoon to talk through a recent mass deletion of their personal profile pages.... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | Snapchat Raising A New Round From KPCB At A $10B Valuation | The rumors are flying around vanishing messaging app Snapchat, both on and off Secret. These rumors hold that Microsoft and Snapchat are in acquisition talks, though we can’t really grok why they would be, other than that the situation woul... |
| Aug 20, 2014 | Move Over, Uber, SF Residents Can “Yo” A Smart Car To Take Them Anywhere They Want Tomorrow | A very gimmicky Mercedes-Benz campaign hopes to tap into the SF tech millennial market tomorrow by offering free rides in its smart electric vehicles to anyone who sends them a “Yo.”
Starting at noon on August 21, smart will place pop-up si... |
| Aug 14, 2014 | Whisper’s Nonprofit Your Voice Is Now A Digital Platform To Discuss Depression Openly | In the wake of all the discussion about depression and suicide this past week, Whisper founders Michael Heyward and Brad Brooks announced they are starting a $1 million endowment for Whisper’s separate nonprofit entity Your Voice. Whisper a... |
| Aug 12, 2014 | Y Combinator Takes Public Stance Against Sexual Harassment | Ahead of its Demo Day next week, Y Combinator reminded investors in a blog post on Tuesday that it has a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment toward founders.
“Don’t even think about doing it,” Y Combinator’s Jessica Livingston wrote... |
| Aug 5, 2014 | Join TechCrunch In Beijing Next Week | Shortly after the launch of TechCrunch.cn last year, we brought TechCrunch’s International City Event, organized by our official partner TechNode, to Shanghai, China.
This year the event is coming to Beijing. It will take place on August 11... |
| Jul 23, 2014 | Tech Leaders Tell Interns What They Wish They Knew At Age 20 | Hundreds of Bay Area interns lined up on Tuesday to hear some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley share what they wished they knew when they were 20 at a recruiting event called Internapalooza.
Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, PayPal c... |
| Jul 21, 2014 | Yahoo Buys Mobile Analytics Firm Flurry For North Of $200M | Yahoo has made no secret of its ambitions and advances in mobile, earlier this month reporting 450 million monthly active users and search and display mobile ad revenues growing 100%. In CEO Marissa Mayer’s words, Yahoo is a “mobile first c... |
| Jul 14, 2014 | Mostly anonymous sharing app Secret raises $25M | Secret powers up with fresh capital to add Facebook login and Collections
It’s official: narcissistic, self-aggrandizing social media posts are out; anonymity is in. Put all your dollars in anonymity, stat!
As L.A.-based secret sharing app ... |
| Jul 14, 2014 | Anonymish App Secret Has Raised Another $25M, Adds Facebook Login And Collections | Secret, the app that lets users share notes with others without revealing their identity, has attracted a lot of controversy (or celebration, depending on who you are) for how it enables the spread of racy but sometimes mean or simply contr... |
| Jun 26, 2014 | Secret & Whisper's newest frenemy is Berri, a Facebook-fueled, anonymous burn book | Amidst the carnage and bloodshed of anonymous social media, app Berri steps in with a white flag in hand.
Apps like Whisper and Secret have taken heat lately from both investors and parents questioning the service from an ethical standpoint... |
| Jun 26, 2014 | Secret & Whisper's newest frenemy is Berri, a Facebook-fueled, anonymous burn book | 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!
Amidst the carnage and bloodshed of anonymous soc... |
| Jun 25, 2014 | Google’s “Cloud Save” lets your app or game sync across iOS and Android | A demo of Dataflow APIs. reader comments 32 with 29 posters participating
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| Jun 17, 2014 | Are Secret’s Raging Hormones A Problem Or An Opportunity? | I can’t recall the exact wording on the short-lived post that found its way into my personal feed on Secret, the anonymish sharing app, the other day. But the illustrative image behind it was less easy to forget.
It depicted a naked trio, c... |
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| Jun 1, 2014 | Secret Launches In China With A ‘Secret’ Partner, Adds Language Preferences As It Blows Up In Russia | Anonymous social sharing app Secret opened up to new users around the globe a few weeks ago, becoming available pretty much everywhere except China. The company corrected that this weekend, introducing an app for Chinese users with the help... |
| May 24, 2014 | For Better Or Worse, Anonymous Apps Allow Us To Be Ourselves Online Again | Anonymous apps like Secret and Whisper are all the rage right now and maybe that shouldn’t be a surprise. This feels like the inevitable reaction to all the major social networks wanting to own our identities — preferably with our real name... |
| May 6, 2014 | Secret Is Working On A Private Chat Feature | Anonyfish has been the only way to move a Secret conversation offline or somewhere with real names. But anonymous sharing app Secret plans to release its own native private chat feature, founders David Bytow and Chrys Bader-Wechseler confir... |
| May 5, 2014 | Surprise! That Wild Rumor About Apple EarPods With Biometrics Sensors Was A Fake | Shocking, just absolutely shocking: the wild rumor claiming that Apple was developing new “EarPods” headphones that included integrated heart rate and blood pressure sensors, which had everyone buzzing, turns out to be fake. According to an... |
| May 3, 2014 | PayPal Strategy Exec ‘No Longer With The Company’ After Sending Inappropriate Tweets | PayPal’s new director of strategy Rakesh “Rocky” Agrawal is interviewing. The company publicly confirmed that the relatively new hire is “no longer with the company” after sending a series of bizarre and insulting tweets last night.
Agrawal... |
| May 2, 2014 | Ugggghhhhhh | At a time when Silicon Valley is facing increasing scrutiny over the treatment of women in technology, there emerges a website called Codebabes.com that, as you may have already heard, involves women stripping as you learn to code and pass ... |
| May 2, 2014 | Rumor Mill Spins Out of Control over Next-Gen EarPods
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Search | It all started with a quote from a post from www.Secret.ly shown below. It promotes their App for iOS. The app was created by ex-Google and Square employees.
One of Secrets first big-hit rumors was whispering about the Nike FuelBand Team be... |
| Apr 29, 2014 | Looks Like Facebook Will Make Ecommerce And User Testing Announcements At f8 | What exactly is Facebook launching tomorrow? It’s hard to say. But we know it’s planning coordinated announcements with at least one ecommerce platform and one product testing service, as these companies reached out to schedule briefings wi... |
| Apr 28, 2014 | ‘Anonymish’ App Secret Taps Into Android, Global Markets; UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand First Up | Secret — the iOS app that lets you share confessions, rumors, complaints and praise with your wider circle of friends without attaching your name to it– has captured the eye of early adopters in the US tech world. Now, with $10 million in f... |
| Apr 28, 2014 | I’ll Tell You A Secret: Anonymous Apps Matter | Until recently, I kept all my secrets to myself.
Sometimes I want to share my thoughts online, but find them too personal for Twitter, and not necessarily appropriate for Facebook. I want to share these thoughts anonymously, either because ... |
| Apr 25, 2014 | How Google Can Leverage Facebook’s Biggest Weakness | Brenden Mulligan Contributor
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| Apr 24, 2014 | Opinion-Sharing Platform Knotch Launches A New Website And Updated App | Since downloading it six months ago, Knotch, which lets people share their opinions on a wide range of topics using an 11-color “feeling thermometer,” has become one of my favorite apps because of its strong community. The startup launched ... |
| Apr 19, 2014 | Report: Amidst layoffs, Nike to kill production of FuelBand | reader comments 56 with 46 posters participating
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| Apr 18, 2014 | Nike Is Said To Be Killing Off The FuelBand | Bad news, Fuel fans: Nike is purportedly killing off their wearable hardware efforts, including the FuelBand.
Just a few days ago, folks started whispering about shakeup in Fuelband land after the following post popped up on Secret:
Now, su... |
| Apr 18, 2014 | Nike Dismantles their FuelBand Wearables Team
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Search | In Cook's famed interview with Walt Mossberg he noted that Apple's initial research found that ten to twenty year olds have no interest in wearing anything on their wrists. C/NET reported late today that 70 to 80 percent of Nike's FuelBand ... |
| Apr 10, 2014 | Would We Trust A Secret Clone From Facebook? | Facebook could buy an anonymous sharing app like Secret, or build one, but would we use it? Facebook’s Snapchat clone Poke crashed and burned in part because people worried Facebook would spy on, save, or widely share their ephemeral messag... |
| Apr 6, 2014 | Secret And Whisper Get Their Own Chinese Clones | Secret and Whisper have hit a dubious benchmark of success. Both have been cloned by developers in China. Secret posted about its Chinese duplicate this weekend, while Tech In Asia was the first English-language publication to report on bot... |
| Apr 4, 2014 | Secret App Down For Hours, Silicon Valley Goes Back To Work | Secret, the anonymous gossip-sharing app and current Silicon Valley addiction, is currently experiencing a significant outage following yesterday’s update, which introduced a variety of new features, including anonymous invites – a mechanis... |
| Apr 4, 2014 | Learn the dirty secrets of mobile monetization at the Mobile Summit | Mobile monetization is a lawless territory, and not every pioneer is as honest as they should be.
People are spending much more time on mobile devices than they are on desktops, and advertisers are scrambling to shift dollars over to mobile... |
| Apr 3, 2014 | Khosla VC Rabois Looks To Make Homes Easy To Sell In A Few Clicks | Keith Rabois, the former Square and PayPal executive who is now handling much of Khosla Ventures’ consumer investments, has a new side gig.
He’s co-founding a company under the codename Homerun that will make it easy to sell entire homes in... |
| Mar 30, 2014 | Doing It For The Likes | We crave approval, but you already knew that. Conventional thinking would suggest we seek digital validation in the forms of Likes and Favorites because they signal that we’ve impressed people and raised our social status. But what anonymou... |
| Mar 23, 2014 | Secret CEO Responds To Cyberbullying Criticism | When it comes to cyberbullying in his anonyous sharing app, Secret co-founder claimed “We don’t see very much of that, if any” when we spoke on stage at SXSW. Secret’s users might disagree. Thankfully, through these highlights from our fire... |
| Mar 19, 2014 | Want More Privacy In Your App? Wickr Resells Its Encryption, Self-Destructing Tech To Other Apps | Wickr, one of the wave of messaging apps built on the idea of private, encrypted and self-destructing data, has vowed never to make money off its users — with its app remaining free, and user data never getting sold on or accessed by others... |
| Mar 15, 2014 | Investors Debate The Ethics Of Anonymity Apps | VCs are publicly and privately debating the morality of investing in the burgeoning “anonymish” app space, after a series of negative posts, mainstream gossip, a high profile resignation and even bomb and violence threats have pushed the vo... |
| Mar 14, 2014 | Anonymous Social App Secret Confirms $8.6 Million In New Funding | Secret, the anonymous social sharing app popular among the Silicon Valley and tech industry crowd, officially announced today it has raised $8.6 million in outside investment. The round included participation from Garry Tan and Alexis Ohani... |
| Mar 14, 2014 | Secret Now Warning Users Not To “Defame” Others | It seems that school children are not the only ones who aren’t able to handle the power of anonymous social applications appropriately. Secret, the San Francisco-based (and now, newly funded) confessional app, has begun warning users to not... |
| Mar 12, 2014 | Slideshow Of Stylish Women In Tech Includes Women Who Compiled The List | TheLi.st co-founders Rachel Sklar and Glynnis MacNicol have apparently* voted for themselves as #2 on Lucky Magazine’s list of “The Top 25 Most Stylish Women In Tech.”
The list, which includes Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer (twice!), is ... |
| Mar 11, 2014 | These 2 secret-sharing apps just pulled in funding in the same week | Whisper and Secret, both apps that let people share secrets anonymously, are reportedly raising $30 million and $10 million respectively.
The news on Whisper’s round was originally reported by Re/code. Citing an anonymous source, Re/code cl... |
| Mar 10, 2014 | Secret Raises $10M | According to TechCrunch, Secret, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an app that allows users to post messages to their contacts without attribution, closed a $10m funding round.
The round, which valued the company at $50m post-money, was... |
| Mar 9, 2014 | How Secret May Uncover A New Secret To Mobile Growth | 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
Greetings from a rainy (but always fun) Austin, TX. As is the case leading up... |
| Mar 9, 2014 | Shh. Secret Raises $10M At A $50M Valuation | The buzzy new app Secret — which lets people post messages to their circles of contacts without attribution — has closed a $10 million round of funding at a $50 million post-money valuation, TechCrunch has learned from two sources close to ... |
| Mar 8, 2014 | Secrets, Lies And Startup Leaks: Mitigating Tech Company Paranoia In An Age Of Constant Crisis | Contributor Contributor
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| Mar 8, 2014 | SXSW Just Got Real Interesting As Secret Creates Realtime SXSW Web Feed | BREAKING: SXSW is about to get even more interesting than normal. Secret, the app which lets you share anonymously amongst friends and friends of friends, has announced a web feed of SXSW ‘secrets’ that are posted from there or mention it. ... |
| Mar 6, 2014 | Clueless Questions Investors Ask | The young woman leaned into the microphone: “I’m the CEO of an edtech startup company and am talking with investors about funding. But what should I say when they ask me if I’m going to get pregnant or go on maternity leave?”
It was a momen... |
| Feb 21, 2014 | Secret Adds Subscribe/Unsubscribe Options, Post Flagging, Unlinking And More | Hot anonymous social network Secret has just pushed an update for its app that addresses a number of issues and improves performance. The new version allows users to subscribe or unsubscribe to any Secret post by swiping left, adds flagging... |
| Feb 21, 2014 | The Value of a Secret: What Startups Can Learn from Silicon Valley’s Latest Obsession | Arguably the birthplace of corporate openness and workplace diversity, Silicon Valley has recently been plagued by the whisperings of its startups' dirty little secrets. Thanks to Secret, the app that allows for the anonymous sharing of mes... |
| Feb 17, 2014 | Anonymous Messaging App Blink Arrives On Android | Blink, a mobile application that allows users to send each other self-destructing messages, has now arrived on Android. The app, which first debuted on iOS last spring, lets you share text, photos, videos, sketches, and even voice messages ... |
| Feb 15, 2014 | Producers and Consumers on Social Media | I’m making a concerted effort to start blogging again on a more frequent basis. It’s not that I have suddenly discovered lots of free time. However, I’ve decided that it’s time to change priorities.
In my attempt to keep up with the demand... |
| Feb 13, 2014 | Secret Launches Bug Bounty Program For Hackers Who Find Vulnerabilities In Its App | Secret, which has fast become everyone’s favorite way to share “anonymish” thoughts with friends and strangers alike, has launched a new program that is designed to find — and squash — bugs in its mobile app before being exposed to the gene... |
| Feb 9, 2014 | My Secret Life | Open the app to see what’s new. Check updates that have been posted on the secrets I’ve commented on first. Click through each of them. Go into the main feed, read down to where I last left off. Scroll back to the top, pull down to refresh.... |
| Feb 7, 2014 | Secret Hits A Hot App Milestone With Discovery Of First Security Issue | Well that didn’t take long. The new anonymous sharing app Secret, which has morphed into Silicon Valley’s “blind item” (and a great place to troll reporters, apparently) has been hacked. Don’t worry, it’s not that serious. The hack doesn’t ... |
| Feb 6, 2014 | That Secret App Is Becoming Silicon Valley’s New Blind Item | “I work at Evernote and we’re about to get acquired… Watch this space”
That could be the first big acquisition rumor to have found its way onto Secret, the new “anonymish” sharing app launched late last week. But it won’t be the last.
(FWIW... |
| Feb 4, 2014 | A Deeper Sort Of Social | If humans are anything, it’s adaptive. Give us a tool, and we’ll figure out a use for it. That’s what happened when we mapped out our social lives to the constraints of the Internet.
After we constructed the portals to everything (all of Am... |
| Feb 3, 2014 | Anonymity’s Moment: Secret Is Like Facebook For What You’re Really Thinking | In the mid-90s, it was all about a/s/l. Then a decade later, Facebook conquered the web, becoming the dominant identity provider on the web. Mark Zuckerberg himself once said that having two identities for yourself was a lack of integrity.
... |
| Сервис анонимного обмена тайнами Secret теперь доступен украинцам | Сервис анонимного обмена тайнами Secret теперь доступен украинцам
26 Мая, 2014, 17:00
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Сервис анонимной публикации «секретов» Secret стал доступен для пользователей по всему миру, включая Украину. До недавнего времени он р... |
| The Blue Ticks of WhatsApp | B K Birla
B.K Birla is Chief Technology Officer at AskLaila and Founder and CEO at Adalbdal
So you have seen this feature already or not. A Blue tick in your WhatsApp chat indicates that the other side has read your message or not. Not sure... |
| Here’s Some Hot Gossip On Secret This Week | Isn’t it awesome to be able to speak freely? Talk with people anonymously? Speak whatever you want to without letting others know your identity and without having any consequences?
Most of you would have caught the hint that I am going to t... |
| Secret интегрируют с «ВКонтакте» — скоро еще больше школьных сплетен | Secret интегрируют с «ВКонтакте» — скоро еще больше школьных сплетен
08 Июня, 2014, 12:00
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В анонимном генераторе сплетен Secret.ly официально внедряют возможность добавления друзей из «ВКонтакте». До этого их можно было п... |
| В Secret обнаружена уязвимость, позволяющая вычислить анонимов | В Secret обнаружена уязвимость, позволяющая вычислить анонимов
29 Мая, 2014, 18:10
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Не успело приложение для анонимного обмена секретами запуститься по всему миру, как его уже успели заблокировать и разблокировать в России,... |