| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.02.2015 | Circa Breaks Free From Mobile, Brings Its Personalized News Digest To The Web | Circa, a mobile news reader for iOS and Android which, to date, has focused on offering users short, easily digestible news stories that allow you to more quickly consume news while on the go, is making a notable change to its service today... |
| 15.02.2015 | India’s News In Shorts Raises $4 Million Series A Round Led By Tiger Global | News In Shorts, an India-based company that operates a news digest app for iOS and Android, has raised a $4 million Series A round led by Tiger Global.
The funding round for the New Delhi-based startup included participation from Japan’s Re... |
| 09.12.2014 | Judge Shuts Down Uber In Spain, Pending Taxi Association Court Action | We might be at the point of losing count of the number of places Uber is being shut down at this point.
Now, after a series of protests by taxi associations in Spain, a Madrid judge has ordered ride-sharing app Uber to cease all activities ... |
| 04.12.2014 | Life Lessons from 7 Entrepreneurs Who Seized the Moment | Entrepreneurs who seize the moment can often turn a simple idea into millions, learning important lessons about life and business along the way. I know personally that even when I fail - multiple times over - I still come away with lessons ... |
| 12.11.2014 | Mobile First Development is Shifting Paradigms | Think for a minute about all the different services you used that are based in a web application. Brady Forrest, VP of Highway1, and Matt Galligan, founder of Circa, asked us this question at this year’s Tech Cocktail Celebrate Conference d... |
| 18.10.2014 | Facebook to federal agents: No, you don't get to create fake profiles to ensnare suspects | Updated 1:20 p.m.
Facebook is serious about real people using real names on its service.
After initially cracking down on drag queens, the social network is going after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency for using fake profiles.
It wants the ... |
| 18.10.2014 | Facebook to federal agents: No, you don't get to create fake profiles to ensnare suspects | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Updated 1:20 p.m.
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| 02.10.2014 | Personalized News-Reading App Pipes Now Smartly Summarizes Articles, Without The Help Of Editors | A personalized news reading app, Pipes, is now offering summaries of news stories to save mobile readers time while trying to catch up on-the-go. This is a big shift for the app, which launched earlier this year to offer a more mainstream-f... |
| 24.09.2014 | Udacity Raises Fresh $35M to Expand the ‘University of Silicon Valley’ | Silicon Valley companies often clamor about the shortage of qualified STEM workers--particularly those in the computer science and engineering ranks. Sometimes, competition gets so fierce that they allegedly collude in illegal “non-poaching... |
| 24.09.2014 | Circa's latest update brings a new design & improved breaking news alerts | With so much emphasis on timeliness of breaking news, most news publications suck pretty badly when it comes to updating you as new information comes to light for a particular article.
Mobile news app Circa is the opposite of that, with a m... |
| 24.09.2014 | Circa's latest update brings a new design & improved breaking news alerts | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With so much emphasis on timeliness of breaking news, most news publications suck pretty badly when it comes to updating you as new inf... |
| 24.09.2014 | Mobile News App Circa Adds A Personalized Daily Digest Of The Day’s Top Stories | Over the past two years, a startup called Circa has tried to re-imagine how users get and consume their news in today’s mobile, on-the-go age. It’s worked toward that goal by providing readers short, easily digestible snippets of news stori... |
| 18.09.2014 | One Lap With Circa’s Matt Galligan | In the first installment of One Lap, Matt Galligan joined me at Thunderhill Raceway to talk about his mobile news application, Circa.
I first met Matt in Boulder, Colo., in early 2010 shortly after he started SimpleGeo, an infrastructure pr... |
| 25.04.2014 | Circa names former Tumblr exec John Maloney its new president | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Former Tumblr president John Maloney has found a ... |
| 25.04.2014 | Former Tumblr President John Maloney Is Joining Circa | John Maloney (Twitter)
Popular news startup Circa has just announced they’ve hired John Maloney as their new president. Mr. Maloney was formerly president of Tumblr, cofounded UrbanBaby, and also works as an angel investor and advisor.
As C... |
| 19.03.2014 | Brazil No Longer Plans to Secede from the Internet | Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff with President Obama in 2011, before the NSA kerfluffle. Image: Roberto Stuckert Fliho/PR
After discovering that the NSA was spying on its citizens, the Brazilian government responded by looking into eithe... |
| 07.01.2014 | Yahoo combines Reddit's 'tl;dr' & a little bit of Circa for its new 'News Digest' app | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
LAS VEGAS — We’ve known for a while that Yahoo ha... |
| 07.01.2014 | Yahoo combines Reddit's 'tl;dr' & a little bit of Circa for its new 'News Digest' app | LAS VEGAS — We’ve known for a while that Yahoo has big media plans as part of the company’s resurrection under CEO Marissa Mayer, but today during Yahoo’s keynote at the 2014 International CES, we actually have some meaty details.
Probably ... |
| 31.12.2013 | 10 Startups That Changed The Narrative In 2013 | ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.
Real companies making real products that real people, you know, spend real money on. That’s what ReadWrite predicted would be the hotte... |
| 31.12.2013 | 26 amazing startups you need to watch in 2014 | You might be forgiven for thinking 2013 was a year of redundant, me-too startups flailing around trying to come up with the best way to gamify wage slavery, deliver butt wipes to your door, or make a buck off the badly misnamed “sharing eco... |
| 21.11.2013 | Link-Sharing Service Potluck’s New App Combines Messaging And News, Including Original Content | Everything’s a messaging app now! Potluck, the link-sharing service from the team behind the social conversation service Branch, began as a simple tool allowing users to share their interesting findings from around web with a community wher... |
| 13.10.2013 | The Precise Art Of Mobile Push Notifications | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor – as a disclaimer for this post, he is an advisor to one of the companies mentioned here, Refresh. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him ... |
| 10.10.2013 | Foundation: Matt Galligan On The Next Phase Of Circa | In this episode of my Foundation video series, I sit down over some craft beers with entrepreneur and Circa founder Matt Galligan. Matt and I discuss the concept of breaking news and Circa’s second version of its news app for iOS and Androi... |
| 03.10.2013 | Circa Releases Version 2 For iOS And Android, Adds Breaking News Notifications | Mobile news startup Circa is releasing a new version of its app with an updated interface for discovering and following news, with a big focus on breaking news. The app will allow users to get push notifications for the biggest news stories... |
| 03.10.2013 | Circa’s new app aims to revolutionize how you get breaking news | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s one thing to make the assessment that the delivery system of how people get their news is broken. It’s quite another when you actu... |
| 12.09.2013 | Mobile News App Circa Launches Its Web Platform For Browsing And Following Stories | Circa, a startup that offers quick and mobile news consumption, is expanding its services to the web by launching its online platform for following and sharing news. While the website doesn’t have the full functionality of the iOS app, the ... |
| 16.08.2013 | Startups Apparently Do Not Care That Android Is Better | In a must-read post for the tech industry, Twitter experience designer and serial startup founder Paul Stamatiou writes: “Android is Better.” His op-ed serves as something of a wake-up call for the industry, where developers building the ne... |
| 14.08.2013 | Great Debates: Co-founder vs. Cofounder? [POLL] | There are many universal truths in the world of starting up. Hustle is key to success, but so is luck. You're only as strong as your network. Finding the right investor is as important as the right investment. Tech Cocktail Mixers are the p... |
| 26.07.2013 | Watch These 3 Videos, Then Take the Weekend Off | Is working 24/7 key to becoming a successful entrepreneur?
Not if you listen to the folks below. Entrepreneurs like Matt Galligan and Dina Kaplan have discovered the great danger that is the burnout, and they don’t want themselves – or thei... |
| 14.07.2013 | Man views porn using Safari, files lawsuit against Apple | reader comments 326 with 194 posters participating
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| 03.06.2013 | 100 AngelList Startups To Watch In 2013: How Many Are New To You? | AngelList. It’s the place for startups to connect with funding and talent. Just this month, the site has helped raise $12 million in venture funding for a wide collection of startups. It may be the one site that best represents all players ... |
| 30.05.2013 | Circa App Betting On Mobile-Native News As The Next Media Frontier | The struggle to figure out how social media and smartphones can best fit into the daily news cycle seems never-ending. Considering the torrent of reporting fiascos surrounding the Boston Marathon bombing – most of which centered, as they of... |
| 28.05.2013 | Google Play Still Missing Top App Titles From iOS, Many Of Which Are Games | Many of today’s tech companies and startups are still building their apps for iOS first, despite Android’s growing market share. The problem stems from a lack of in-house talent, fewer Android-owning beta testers, technical hurdles, fragmen... |
| 28.05.2013 | News reader startup Circa nabs Reuter's Anthony De Rosa as its new editor in chief | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
News reader app Circa is stacking the deck when i... |
| 28.05.2013 | News reader startup Circa nabs Reuter's Anthony De Rosa as its new editor in chief | News reader app Circa is stacking the deck when it comes to editorial talent. Today the startup announced that it had lured away Reuters social Media editor Anthony De Rosa to become Circa’s editor in chief.
Circa focuses on people who want... |
| 08.04.2013 | Slim For iPhone Helps You Keep Up With Facebook, LinkedIn And More, Without Obsessively Checking For Updates | In our state of continued information overload, and because of the growing number of services which we have to check in order to keep up with the information that matters to us, things get missed by even the most active social media users. ... |
| 12.03.2013 | The importance of criticism | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
So many times throughout our lives we might be gi... |
| 19.01.2013 | Circa Raises $750K From Group Including Lerer Ventures To Revolutionize Mobile News Delivery | We’ve learned today that mobile news-delivery company Circa has raised another $750K on top of the $900K raised previously. The company launched its app of the same name, which allows you to follow an often-changing story in bite-sized chun... |
| 05.12.2012 | Funding Daily: Prohibition ends! | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today in history, Prohibition ended. The 18th ame... |
| 05.12.2012 | Big-name investors throw $15M at news aggregation startup Prismatic | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ever heard of Prismatic? Until yesterday, neither... |
| 05.12.2012 | News App Circa Launches Web View And Twitter Feed So Everyone Can Read Stories Anywhere | We told you about Matt Galligan’s news app for iOS, Circa, a few months ago. Basically, it breaks down “stories” into more consumable chunks so that you can follow something as it happens. It was particularly useful during the elections, as... |
| 05.12.2012 | Funding Daily: Prohibition ends! | Today in history, Prohibition ended. The 18th amendment was repealed by the 21st and alcohol became legal again. The Prohibition era is a time characterized by gangsters and speakeasies, and the teetotalers and G-Men against them. Anyone wi... |
| 30.11.2012 | Why Did Google Buy BufferBox? Because The Entire Mail And Package Delivery System Is Broken | Today, Google bought an Ontario-based company called BufferBox. In a way, it kind of came out of left field. Since it’s a Google Ventures company, one can guess that those on Google’s campus were very familiar with the service, which provid... |
| 05.11.2012 | Matt Galligan On Circa’s Role In The Upcoming Election And The Future Of News [TCTV] | Last month, we told you about a new service called Circa, which set out to redefine the way that you consume news on your iOS device. The app itself is beautifully designed and was based off of an idea that Ben Huh had and then shared with ... |
| 04.11.2012 | Iterations: All The News That’s Fit To Reinvent | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been an Official Contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
If there was a time-lapse video chronicling how humans have sh... |
| 21.10.2012 | Iterations: The Harsh Realities Of iOS App Distribution | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been an official contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
In this post, I’m going to try illuminate a tactical problem m... |
| 15.10.2012 | Something new in news: Circa launches a mobile app in which news follows you | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
I can haz newz for phone?
Circa has released a new mobile app for news. And — hallelujah — it is most definitely not just another copyc... |
| 15.10.2012 | Circa’s New iOS App Will Change The Way You Consume News | The way that we consume information on the Internet has changed dramatically over the years. The main reason is because there is simply more content available to us than we could ever consume during our time on Earth.
Back in the day, our o... |
| 15.10.2012 | Circa: A mobile app hoping to redefine news presentation | For months, Ben Huh was uncharacteristically mum about his online journalism startup. But finally today, Circa swung its curtains open in hopes to redefine the way readers consume their news.
Circa, which launched its app this morning, cent... |
| 15.10.2012 | Something new in news: Circa launches a mobile app in which news follows you | I can haz newz for phone?
Circa has released a new mobile app for news. And — hallelujah — it is most definitely not just another copycat attempt to cash in on the path that Flipboard and Pulse paved.
With cofounder Ben Huh of Cheezburger f... |
| 18.06.2012 | Gary Sharma’s Highlights from F.ounders NY 2012, the Michael Jordan of Tech Events | Ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ at the F.ounders NY 2012
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), Founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last c... |
| 27.04.2012 | Ben Huh news startup Circa raises $750K seed funding | Cheezburger Network founder Ben Huh has been uncharacteristically quiet about Circa, his online journalism startup. Now word is out that Circa has raised $750,000 in seed funding.
TechCrunch reports that the seed money comes from eonCapital... |
| 27.03.2012 | Gary Sharma’s Shorty Awards 2012 Highlights (Mayor Bloomberg, Tiffany Thiessen, Miss USA, The Daily Show Gang and More) | 3 lovely ladies – my friend Victoria Song (Flybridge Capital) with Miss USA 2011 Alyssa Campanella and reigning Miss Teen USA Danielle Doty at the 2012 Shorty Awards. Raawwr!
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red ... |
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