Tag: Apps

Finance Messenger Mobile payments Social TC

Facebook Messenger now supports group payments

April 11, 2017
Sarah Perez

 Facebook introduced person-to-person payments within Messenger in early 2015, but today the company announced the feature is…

Fundings & Exits on-demand TC

Cleanly raises a $5M Series A to bring profitability to the on-demand laundry space

April 11, 2017
Fitz Tepper

 Cleanly, the on-demand laundry and dry cleaning service started in NYC, has raised $5M in Series…

Mobile Social TC

Instagram Direct unites ephemeral and permanent messaging for 375M users

April 11, 2017
Josh Constine

 After successfully cloning Snapchat Stories, Instagram is looking to one-up its competitor in chat with a…

Google Mobile

Google Duo audio calling now available worldwide

April 10, 2017
Sarah Perez

 In March, Google announced it was beginning to roll out support for audio-only calling in its…

instagram Social Startups TC

Postepic is an app for elegantly sharing book quotes

April 8, 2017
Natasha Lomas

 Postepic wants to liberate all those interesting text snippets you have languishing on your camera roll…

Finance Social TC Twitter

Peter Fenton is leaving Twitter’s board of directors

April 7, 2017
Matthew Lynley

 Benchmark partner Peter Fenton, who had been on Twitter’s board since 2009, will not seek re-election…

Media Netflix tv

Netflix adds a screensaver to its TV apps to promote its original content

April 7, 2017
Sarah Perez

 Netflix quietly launched a new discovery feature this week aimed at promoting its original programming to…

eCommerce Mobile TC

Amazon pulls Diapers.com and other Quidsi apps from the app store

April 7, 2017
Sarah Perez

 At the end of March, Amazon announced it was planning to shut down Diapers.com and all…