Fizz is the newest and hottest mobile app on the college market. Available only for college students, users can only access the Fizz community for their own college. On the app, students can publish text posts, polls and photos without a username or identifying information...
Remix, a startup developing an open source web framework has been acquired by Shopify. Remix CEO Michael Jackson said that Remix will receive “long-term backing and support” from Shopify that will allow it to “grow faster” and “sharpen its focus on performance and scalability.” Remix...
Digital creation company Picsart is adding an AI Image Generator and an AI Writer to create images and ad copy. Picsart says that as text-to-image generators are growing in popularity, it’s bringing one directly into its platform. As with other models, Picsart’s AI Image Generator...
Metrist, a startup that helps IT teams stay on top of outages among the many cloud services they use to run their own applications, announced that it has raised a $5.5 million seed round from Heavybit, Morado Ventures and PagerDuty co-founder Alex Solomon and StatusPage...
Apple’s App Store suffered a 5% year-on-year dip in net revenue in September according to a note from Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring. This is the biggest drop in App Store revenue since the financial services company started tracking its data. Gaming was the biggest...
If you’re facing a lack of interest in one of your open positions, what’s one thing you can do to increase the number of applications coming in? Why does this work so well? YEC community members were asked the same question and CEO of Appetizer Mobile,...
Google is revamping its Play Store in an effort to help users better discover and install apps to other devices via their phone. The company announced a series of changes to the Google Play Store that will enable cross-device discovery and new tools to help...
Apple has announced major price hikes for in-app purchases on App Store in multiple countries across Asia and Europe, starting October 5. The company said new prices will affect consumers in Chile, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Vietnam, and all territories that...
Headspace Health is acquiring Shine, a mental health and wellness app dedicated to providing an inclusive mental health experience for the BIPOC community. Headspace Health says the acquisition of the New York-based company will expand its ability to provide more inclusive self-care content to its...
Falkon, a sales analytics platform that uses AI to attempt to show where successful product sales are occuring in an organization, has announced that it has raised $16 million in a funding round led by OMERS Ventures with participation from Greylock Partners, Trilogy Financial, Flying...
