Facebook’s social graph is aging, full of long-lost acquaintances and hometown friends you don’t care much about interpreting in the News Feed any more. But Facebook is now testing a fulcrum away from its core identity of connecting you with existing pals so it can revitalize the social graph and …
Read More »MoviePass Films Somehow Scores Three-Picture Deal With Bruce Willis
MoviePass, the e-ticketing corporation that has spent the majority of members of the last year in a slow-motion cataclysmic meltdown, has somehow sucked Bruce Willis into a three-picture deal with its make company, Deadline reported this week. Read more … Read more: gizmodo.com
Read More »Hoodline launches a content recommendation widget that’s all about local news
Hoodline continues to serve as a reliable source of neighborhood news for San Francisco and Oakland, but it’s also been building tools that help other publications supplement their local coverage. Earlier this year, the company launched a news wire that automates the creation of local news stories using online data …
Read More »Coffee Meets Bagel raises $12M for international expansion and live events
Coffee Meets Bagel scored a $12 million Series B this week. The round, led by U.K. VC firm Atami Capital, brings the popular dating app’s total up to just under $20 million since launching back in 2012. The San Francisco-based dating app has worked to distinguish itself from competitors like …
Read More »Pinterest gives advertisers a way to show promoted videos that take up the screen
Pinterest is continuing its push into video as a potential avenue for advertisers by today saying that it will offer advertisers a promoted video tool that takes up the width of the entire screen. While Pinterest normally offers users a grid that they can flip through — compressing a lot …
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