Monday, November 17, 2014Snapchat Launches Payment Service With SquareVenice-based Snapchat said Monday that it has launched a new feature, which lets users pay their friends using the company's mobile app. According to Snapchat, it partnered with payment firm Square, which lets you type a dollar sign and amount to send to a friend's bank account, using a user's debit card. Snapchat said the feature will be available to users in the United States who have a debit card and are 18 or older.
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Break's Prank It Fwd Kicks Off Series Of Positive PranksLos Angeles-based Break.com has kicked off a series of "positive pranks" with a new video--apparently, the first of many--revolving around life changing pranks on unsuspecting people. Break.com posted the first of the series this morning, showing a very surprised housekeeper and single mother in Cleveland, Ohio, who gets a very unusual day at work. Break.com said the series comes out of an earlier Prank It FWD video it posted back in April, where it showed a waitress getting suprised with an unu (More info...)
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Soci Gets $1.5M For Social Media MarketingSan Diego-based Soci, a developer of a social content discovery engine and social media marketing software product, has raised $1.5M in a Series A funding. The company said the round was led by angel Peter Fischer (Shepherd Ventures) and Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate. Soci, led by Afif Khoury, develops a social content discovery and marketing engine. The company said it will use the funding to expand its product, which is aimed at national digital service providers, media outlets, marketing ag (More info...)
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Snapchat Now Alerting Users On Third Party AppsAfter a massive leak of compromising photos due to a third party app using Snapchat's "unofficial" API, Venice-based Snapchat has been on the defense, trying to dissuade users from using unauthorized, third party apps. Snapchat said last week that it will start notifying Snap users when it detects they may be using third party apps, and ask those users to change the password and stop using those unauthorized apps. The move is the first move to improve the company's security and reliability afte (More info...)
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WiGo Seeded By Rad, MateenBoston-based WiGo (Who Is going Out), a developer of mobile apps to help college students coordinate their social lives, has scored seed funding from Sean Rad and Justin Mateen, the two local entrepreneurs behind hit app Tinder. According to reports, the two were among a number of angels in a $700,000 seed funding for WiGo. The round also apparently included Paul English of Kaya and Ben Fischmann (Rue La La) and Kevin Colleran (Facebook).
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Lettuce Blocks New Users Accounts After Intuit BuyLos Angeles-based Lettuce, the startup headed by Raad Mobrem which was acquired by Intuit in May, is shutting of new accounts to the company's inventory and order management software. According to the company, it decided to shut access to new accounts in order to "accelerate our progress with QuickBooks Online". The company said existing customers will continue to have access to the software. Lettuce said its team is working on enhancing the order and inventory experience within QuickBooks Onlin (More info...)
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