A full day’s work for Dora Manriquez, who drives for Uber and Lyft in the San Francisco Bay Area, includes waiting in her car for a two-digit number to appear. The apps keep sending her rides that are too cheap to pay for her time—$4 or $7 for a trip across San Francisco, $16 for…
Medium has gone through a number of versions over the years, but what has been a steady focus in Medium’s life in recent years has been its subscription business.
New York-based peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace Pickle, which lets users earn passive income from their closets, is readying an expansion with the close of an $8 million seed round. The company, which was run by just its two co-founders, CEO Brian McMahon and COO Julia O’Mara, up until June, is now planning to expand into […]
A new automation startup is setting out to eat Zapier’s lunch, formally launching to the public today after an extended period in beta. Relay, as the company is called, touts itself as a workflow automation platform that helps people tackle mundane, repetitive tasks, going “beyond triggers and actions” popularized by similar rules-based platforms such as […]
Aampe, a marketing automation platform for mobile apps, recently closed a $7.5 million funding round led by Matrix India and Peak XV, the company announced last week. Bringing Aampe’s total raised to $9.3 million, the new cash will support product development and growing Aampe’s go-to-market teams, co-founder and CEO Paul Meinshausen says. “Existing conventional customer […]
Captions, an AI-powered video editing startup, has launched a new app called Lipdub for translating clips into 28 different languages. Lipdub is available in the App Store for free and supports several languages including French, Hindi, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, and more. The app even lets users translate videos into Texas slang, Gen Z, pirate, […]
Since 1972, in his downtime, Bill Reichman has been dedicated to one delicious diversion. When the pandemic hit, he turned his passion into a lucrative side hustle. Here’s how he did it.
With digital transformation gaining momentum globally, businesses across end-use sectors rapidly implement advanced technologies, boosting the software industry’s growth prospects. Software companies Microsoft (MSFT) and HubSpot (HUBS) will benefit significantly…
Surging crude oil prices and solid energy demand worldwide will likely incentivize operators to produce more oil and natural gas, creating growth opportunities for companies providing energy drilling services. So,…