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| Jan 21, 2025 | Global Streaming Media Company Plex Appoints Matt DiPietro as CMO | In its ongoing quest to end the streaming struggle and become the one-stop shop for all things TV and movies, global streaming media company Plex has appointed Matt DiPietro as Chief Marketing Officer. DiPietro will drive Plex’s mission for... |
| Jun 9, 2014 | Mobile Analytics Startup Splitforce Raises $150,000 Seed Round, Launches Automatic A/B Testing For iOS And Android | Mobile analytics company Splitforce has launched an automatic A/B testing service called Auto-Optimization for iOS and Android that it says will dramatically increase the speed and efficiency of running user tests for startups.
The company,... |
| Jan 21, 2014 | Algolia Provides ‘Spotlight’ For The Web With Its Turbocharged Real-Time Search API | French startup Algolia provides a real-time search API that makes the search function on your website sexy. Now Y Combinator-backed, it’s faster than anything you’ve seen before — everything happens in real time, and results change with eac... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | YC-funded Twitch raises $20M for live video gaming, doubled viewers to 45M monthly in the past year | Live video gaming platform Twitch has been on a growth tear this past year and has raised $20 million from investors to rip it up some more.
Unlike competitors Ustream, LiveStream, YouTube and others enabling individuals and companies to b... |
| Apr 18, 2013 | Mobile Video App Socialcam Adds Expanded User Profiles, Camera Switching, And Hashtags That Work | The team behind mobile video app Socialcam just keeps on trucking. The company, which is now part of Autodesk, is releasing a new version of its app today, adding a bunch of features that users have asked for, like expanded profile pages, a... |
| Mar 6, 2013 | Vine Takes Early Command In The Mobile Video Market Over Viddy, Socialcam And Others Despite Low Adoption | Editor’s note: Robert J. Moore is the co-founder of RJMetrics, a company whose software helps online businesses make smarter decisions using their own data. He also previously served on the Investment Team of Insight Venture Partners. Follo... |
| Jan 29, 2013 | Ivy Leaguers: Your credentials are worthless here | American companies are obsessed with hiring Harvard grads and Wharton MBAs. This is true of the tech industry, even extending into startups, driving entry-level top school CS bachelor’s degree grad salaries into the six figures in the Bay A... |
| Jan 29, 2013 | Ivy Leaguers: Your credentials are worthless here | 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!
American companies are obsessed with hiring Harva... |
| Jan 11, 2013 | Streamweaver Nabs $1.3M From Former Facebook Chief & Others To Bring The Split-Screen Experience To Mobile Video | You may have thought you’d seen every permutation of the video-sharing app, given the glut of new startups scrambling to become the “Instagram of Video,” or some derivation thereof. There’s Viddy, Socialcam, Round, Threadlife, Klip, Tout, o... |
| Oct 21, 2012 | Post-Facebook IPO: What VCs Are Looking For In The Next Great Social Network | Editor’s note: Joe Medved, a partner at SoftBank Capital, focuses on early-stage consumer and enterprise mobile, social marketing, gaming, and commerce investments. He serves on the boards of BestVendor, CrowdTwist, Jump Ramp Games and Thum... |
| Sep 10, 2012 | Why Eyeballs No Longer Matter For Startups | Need funding for your startup? Don’t load up your PowerPoint with nifty charts showing all the users your online service has grabbed. Venture capitalists are no longer impressed. These days, investors want to hear about the revenue you’re g... |
| Sep 4, 2012 | 6 Weeks After Being Acquired, Socialcam Opens Up Its API To Give Developers Access To Its Video Library | Video sharing app Socialcam was recently acquired by Autodesk, but just because it’s no longer an indie startup doesn’t mean it’s stopped innovating and rolling out new features. About six weeks after being acquired, Socialcam is opening up... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Autodesk to buy hot video app Socialcam for $60M | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Software company Autodesk has agreed to buy quickly growing video app Socialcam for $60 million, the company announced Tuesday.
Socialc... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Funding Daily: venture capital makes it rain with downpour of investment | 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!
Funding news flooded our wire today with so many ... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Funding Daily: venture capital makes it rain with downpour of investment | Funding news flooded our wire today with so many announcements and releases, it was like swimming upstream in a hurricane to keep up with it all. We’re having to include a lightning round below just to cover all the bases. Grab a life vest,... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Autodesk buys mobile video shooting star Socialcam (YC W12) for $60M | Congrats to Michael, Ammon, and Guillaume!
Socialcam, the quick-growing mobile video start-up, has quickly found a buyer.
Autodesk, known for its 3D design and visual effects software, has agreed to buy Socialcam, in a deal worth approxim... |
| Jul 2, 2012 | Top Trends of 2012: Social Video Apps (Warning: Seedy Content!) | Continuing our review of the first half of 2012, we look at an emerging product type that became popular this year: social video apps. The two leading contenders are Socialcam and Viddy, each vying to be the breakout app. But at least one o... |
| Jun 27, 2012 | What’s the next billion dollar idea? | A couple of months ago, Facebook acquired the wildly popular photo sharing social network, Instagram, for a cool US$1-billion. Popular yes, profitable? Nope. With zero revenue to speak of, hacker-CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw something in Instagr... |
| Jun 27, 2012 | What’s the next billion dollar idea? | A couple of months ago, Facebook acquired the wildly popular photo sharing social network, Instagram, for a cool US$1-billion. Popular yes, profitable? Nope. With zero revenue to speak of, hacker-CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw something in Instagr... |
| May 22, 2012 | To Capture New Users, Socialcam Redesigns Its Website And Introduces A Leaderboard | Social mobile video startup Socialcam is rolling out a new website today, which is designed to create more engagement for users that might not have the mobile app installed. The company has also introduced a leaderboard to help highlight us... |
| May 8, 2012 | Report: Photo & Video Now The Fastest Growing Mobile App Category | Ever since Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, the search for the next “Instagram of [insert app category here]” has been on. One area many pundits have focused on in this context is video and according to the latest data from m... |
| May 8, 2012 | Will Viddy (and other video apps) kill the YouTube star? | While everyone is trying to predict which video sharing app will be the true “Instagram for video,” the massive surge in popularity for video apps could also become a problem for the online video mainstay YouTube.
As consumers move towards ... |
| May 8, 2012 | Will Viddy (and other video apps) kill the YouTube star? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
While everyone is trying to predict which video sharing app will be the true “Instagram for video,” the massive surge in popularity for... |
| May 3, 2012 | Why “Instagram For Video” Apps Will Go Big | The latest trend in smartphone apps is social video. That’s because ever since Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 Billion, attention has focused on video sharing apps and whether one of them will win the next Zuckerberg lottery. The two lea... |
| May 2, 2012 | Socialcam (YC W12) nabs angel funding from the A-List: Yuri, Laurene Powell Jobs, Tim Draper, Ashton, more | Socialcam is the #1 free app most downloaded, and has now surpassed Viddy in the iOS App Store. They’ve also announced a recent angel round, as noted in Techcrunch:
The race to be the “Instagram for video” is hotter than ever, and Socialca... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | Socialcam Nabs Angel Funding From The A-List: Yuri Milner, Tim Draper, Laurene Powell Jobs, And More | The race to be the “Instagram for video” is hotter than ever, and Socialcam, the app that spun out of video sharing pioneer Justin.tv last year and was part of Y Combinator’s winter 2012 class, is hustling hard for the lead. The company has... |
| Apr 25, 2012 | Socialcam Just Added Millions Of New Users, So It Tweaked Its App To Make Them Stick Around | Socialcam, the “Instagram for video” iPhone app that spun out of user generated video pioneer Justin.tv last year, has had a pretty crazy past week. A Hacker News post aimed at recruiting engineers for the company said that the app added fo... |
| Apr 20, 2012 | Flush With Funding, Video Chat Service Tango Has Social Network Ambitions | Video chat service Tango is moving in a new direction, and this week the company closed a round of $40 million in Series C funding which will take it there, it hopes. Many think of Tango’s service as an up-and-coming Skype competitor, as it... |
| Apr 16, 2012 | Inside Founders Den, The Invite-Only Clubhouse For Tech Entrepreneurs [TCTV] | Founders Den, the “private clubhouse for entrepreneurs” based in downtown San Francisco, celebrated its first anniversary back in January. Now that the invite-only tech startup coworking space is starting to see its third generation of inha... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | The Hunt For An ‘Instagram For Video’ Is On, And Socialcam Wants The Crown | By all accounts, Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day held last month for its Winter 2012 class was a biggie. With 66 companies presenting their apps, it was pretty impossible to name a startup that was the clear star of the group. But judging fr... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | Here’s the reality: Silicon Valley drama is too hot for TV | A clip lasting just seconds was enough to put the real people of Silicon Valley in a tizzy over a Bravo reality television show tentatively titled “Silicon Valley.”
The show, still in development, will chronicle the lives of five relative u... |
| Apr 9, 2012 | The Rat Race | Editor’s note: Justin Kan is the founder of Exec, the fastest way to get your jobs or errands done in real-time. He previously co-founded Justin.tv / TwitchTV, which recently spun off Socialcam. You can follow him on Twitter @justinkan and ... |
| Apr 3, 2012 | Want To Rent A Founder? Justin Kan’s Exec Is Making That Happen (For Charity) | Justin Kan is a busy guy. The serial entrepreneur is best known as the founder of Justin.tv, the online community that lets users broadcast, watch, and interact around video. Last year, he and team spun-off Twitch.tv, a gaming-focused versi... |
| Mar 28, 2012 | Socialcam 4.0: Instagram For Video Adds Themes And Soundtracks | Yesterday, Y Combinator double alum and video sharing app Socialcam debuted its new and improved wares at Demo Day. Today, the startup is following up with the official announcement of Socialcam 4.0 — the biggest release for the video shari... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | YC Demo Day Session 4: Shoptiques, Pair, Daily Muse, Per Vices, iCracked, Socialcam, AnyVivo | If you want a better way to shop, hire, share video, or stay in touch with your significant other, you’ll love the companies that presented at today’s Y Combinator Demo Day session four. Many are already gaining traction, and investors are ... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Y Combinator shows off 39 companies at Demo Day | Y Combinator’s semi-annual Demo Day is taking place today, and 66 companies are pitching their products at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Twenty seven of the presenting companies are still in stealth mode.
Twice a... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | At Y Combinator’s Biggest Demo Day Yet, Mobile Is Taking Over | There are plenty of observations to be made about Y Combinator’s Demo Day. It’s the biggest ever, with 66 companies in this Winter class. It’s more diverse than past years, with many companies being led by women and people of color. And the... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Y Combinator shows off 39 companies at Demo Day | 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!
Y Combinator’s semi-annual Demo Day is taking pla... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Justin.tv’s Namesake Founder Takes On Task Services With Exec | Justin.tv has already gone in two directions. The main one is Twitch.tv, a video game-focused version of the original video streaming site, that by all accounts has booming traffic and revenue. The other one is SocialCam, a mobile video app... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | Founders Den Demo Day Part Deux: 14 Startups Come Out Of Hibernation | Our SOMA neighbor and “clubhouse for entrepreneurs” Founders Den had its second Demo Day today, out of its spacious office in SOMA. Many of the startups presenting were niche plays, trying to tackle the issues of curation and data in variou... |
| Jan 31, 2012 | SocialCam is the latest alum startup returning to Y Combinator | Having spun out of online broadcaster Justin.tv last year, SocialCam has managed to get a strong footing on iOS and Android. It passed 3 million downloads in December, and it’s now sending 3 million notifications a day, with video uploads a... |
| Jan 30, 2012 | SocialCam Is Growing, But It’s The Latest Alum Startup Returning To Y Combinator Anyway | Having spun out of online broadcaster Justin.tv last year, SocialCam has managed to get a strong footing on iOS and Android. It passed 3 million downloads in December, and it’s now sending 3 million notifications a day, with video uploads a... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | With Growth Accelerating, Socialcam’s Mobile Video App Passes 3 Million Downloads | We’ve been tracking Socialcam‘s foray into mobile video sharing since the app launched in March, so we have some context for the announcement today that it’s passed 3 million downloads. Basically, the app is starting to take off.
It took un... |
| Oct 28, 2011 | Socialcam: Further Proof That You Folks Really Like Your Filters | Since last spring we’ve been tracking the progress of Socialcam, the ‘Instagram for Video’ that spun off from Justin.tv. The app, which is available for iOS and Android, hit the 2 million download milestone at the beginning of the month, an... |
| Oct 5, 2011 | Socialcam Crosses 2M Downloads, Adds (Wait For It…) Video Filters! | Socialcam, the ‘Instagram for Video’ that launched shortly before this year’s SXSW, has crossed a major milestone this week: it’s now been downloaded 2 million times across iOS and Android devices since it launched six months ago.
It’s also... |
| Aug 11, 2011 | Chill, Yes THAT Chill, Is A Turntable.fm For Videos | Imagine innocently launching your Facebook app one night and waking up to a bevy of emails saying that Mark Zuckerberg thinks the thing that you built is spamming up HIS precious platform. And let’s say that your app is like a DJ interface ... |
| Jul 15, 2011 | Socialcam Surpasses 1 Million Downloads, Now Lets Users Trim The Fat | Socialcam, the service from Justin.tv that’s essentially an ‘Instagram for Video’, has passed a big milestone: since launching in March, they now have more than one million downloads on iOS devices (actually they have more than that now, be... |
| Jun 27, 2011 | Startups Don’t Die, They Commit Suicide | Justin Kan is the founder of Justin.tv and Socialcam. You can follow him on Twitter here and read his blog here.
Startups die in many ways, but in the past couple of years I’ve noticed that the most common cause of death is what I call “Sta... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | TC Cribs: Inside The Escheresque Home Of Justin.tv and Socialcam | We’re back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and it’s featuring a startup long-time TechCrunch readers will know well: Justin.tv. The office is a quirky mix of hallways, rooms that probably shouldn’t be rooms, and secret stairways — and it’s l... |
| May 4, 2011 | Socialcam's 'Instagram for Video' Is Now On The Web, Too | Socialcam, the video sharing app that was created by Justin.tv, is quickly fleshing out its feature set. The app — which is a lot like an ‘Instagram for video’, minus the effects filters — launched just in time for SXSW and had 250,000 down... |
| May 4, 2011 | Justin.tv’s Socialcam Gets a Website | Socialcam, the mobile social video-sharing app by Justin.tv, hit the App Store two months ago and quickly became a favorite (for me, at least) for quick mobile video sharing. Like Instagram, however, it lacked just one thing – a website.
To... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Socialcam 2.0 Lands on The iPhone | Back in Feburary we took an in-depth look at Socialcam, the mobile video app for iPhone and Android that was built by Justin.tv. The app is easiest to describe as an ‘Instagram for video’ — fire it up and you’ll see a stream of videos recen... |
| Mar 27, 2011 | Mobile Messaging March Madness | Editor’s note: Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah.
On Thursday, I used Yobongo all day, which... |
| Mar 25, 2011 | The Color Of Envy And Rooting Against Goliath | We’re now two days into to the life of Color, and it’s still the tech story that everyone in the blogosphere wants to talk about. Yesterday, I detailed why so much of that talk is directly related to the massive funding they were able to se... |
| Mar 21, 2011 | Justin.tv’s social video bet pays off with 150K downloads | Justin.tv, one of the best-known startups offering live-streaming video services, launched a mobile video application called Socialcam two weeks ago that moved the company in a new direction. The app seems to be attracting users — it has be... |
| Feb 12, 2011 | Why Starting Justin.tv Was A Really Bad Idea, But I'm Glad We Did It Anyway | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Justin Kan, founder of Justin.tv.
Right now I’m neck deep in product launch mode, putting the finishing touches on our new mobile video application—Socialcam. Of course, I’ve been here ... |
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Социальная сеть Facebook создала процветающую экономику, которая сделала многих разработчиков богатыми. Но многих вынудила распрощаться со с... |
