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Tinder Hires Amazon’s Jerry Heinz To Lead Engineering
By Jordan Crook In the wake of a sexual harassment scandal, Tinder has some positive news to share around a recent hire. Jerry Heinz, former head of Engineering at Amazon, has recently joined Tinder as VP of engineering, overseeing the team of thirty as the mobile dating app continues to scale. Heinz led the effort…
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Yahoo Acquires ‘Pandora For Places’ App Zofari
By Ingrid Lunden Another acquisition for Yahoo, this one focused on improving the company’s local search capabilities: it has bought Zofari, a local recommendation app that uses machine learning, natural language processing and third-party data from sources like Foursquare to extract information that matches you the user up with places you might enjoy visiting. Or,…
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Fly Or Die: The New Foursquare
By Jordan Crook As you might have noticed, Foursquare made some big changes this summer. The first was the introduction of a new check-in based social app called Swarm, and the second hit last week with the debut of the brand new Foursquare. Read More Source: Technology
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RelayRides Adds $10 Million From Trinity And Looks To Expand Peer-To-Peer Airport Rentals
By Ryan Lawler When we last checked in with peer-to-peer car rental startup RelayRides about six weeks ago, it had raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Canaan Partners. Well, it wasn’t quite finished raising money, as it turns out… The company just closed on an additional $10 million in financing led by…
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Peel Delivers A DISH And DirectTV Smart Remote For iOS – No New Hardware Required
By Darrell Etherington Peel originally launched as a hardware/software combo to bring smart remote features for your TV to the iPhone, but that was a few years ago, and the company has since focused more on building software, with a mobile app that provides social TV viewing features and personalized recommendations. The startup has been…
