| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.04.2018 | Investing: What you need to know about bitcoin | When " bitcoin” appeared as a clue in The New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle earlier this year, it was confirmation that the cryptocurrency had officially entered the zeitgeist.
Such virtual currencies use computer-generated encryp... |
| 05.06.2017 | Are these the 10 all-time biggest exit deals for SA startups? [Digital All Stars] | Digital All Stars is a series of articles which aims to celebrate the best of South African digital. The articles, which will appear on Memeburn and Ventureburn, recognise and celebrate South Africa’s best digital entrepreneurs, business pe... |
| 05.06.2017 | Are these the 10 all-time biggest exit deals for SA startups? [Digital All Stars] | Digital All Stars is a series of articles which aims to celebrate the best of South African digital. The articles, which will appear on Memeburn and Ventureburn, recognise and celebrate South Africa’s best digital entrepreneurs, business pe... |
| 19.11.2016 | How South Africa's 'Shark Tank' Saw its First Bitcoin Investment | screen-shot-2016-11-17-at-7-12-04-am
In what could be a world's first, bitcoin made an appearance on the popular TV series Shark Tank this week.
Launched in October, South African audiences now have their own version of the popular TV franc... |
| 07.06.2016 | Blockchain/Bitcoin in Vietnam – A short Overview | As a country where cash is still the king of currency, the current state of implementation of Blockchain technology solutions in Vietnam is still very new. A few Vietnam fintech startups have been working on providing basic infrastructure l... |
| 04.11.2015 | The 25 Best Medium-Sized Company Cultures in 2015 | November 4, 2015 5 min read
From startups to growing businesses and established companies, having a high-performance company culture helps drive a mission, achieve goals, provides support and creates the foundation for employee growth. It p... |
| 03.08.2015 | SweepSouth becomes first SA startup to join Silicon Valley’s 500 Startups programme | South African on-demand domestic cleaning startup SweepSouth has secured a spot in the renowned Silicon Valley-based accelerator programme, 500 Startups.
Not only has SweepSouth been awarded US$125 000 in seed funding and acceptance into t... |
| 03.08.2015 | SweepSouth becomes first SA startup to join Silicon Valley’s 500 Startups programme | South African on-demand domestic cleaning startup SweepSouth has secured a spot in the renowned Silicon Valley-based accelerator programme, 500 Startups.
Not only has SweepSouth been awarded US$125 000 in seed funding and acceptance into th... |
| 20.07.2015 | What the AshleyMadison Hack Can Teach Everyone About Opsec | Today around 37 million people may be trying to think of a seriously good alibi. Hackers have reportedly published a sample of user account information from the hook up site AshleyMadison, and have threatened to release data on all of its u... |
| 16.03.2015 | Gyft to Embrace ‘Radical’ Blockchain Concept in Gift Card Fraud Fight | SXSW
Gyft CEO Vinny Lingham has announced plans for his mobile gift card company to use bitcoin to enable gift card providers to issue more secure, consumer-friendly digital products.
Announced at the annual SXSW conference, the news was re... |
| 28.11.2014 | 12 Places to Spend Your Bitcoin This Black Friday | Bitcoin Black Friday was hailed as a huge success last year and it looks set to be even bigger in 2014, with hundreds of retailers competing for your hard-earned bitcoins.
There are a plethora of great deals and offers floating around for t... |
| 11.08.2014 | Barry Silbert Leads $250k Investment in Indian Bitcoin Startup Unocoin | Unocoin
Bitcoin exchange and merchant payment processor Unocoin has closed a $250,000 funding deal with Barry Silbert's Bitcoin Opportunity Corp.
The Bangalore-based company has come a long way since launching in December 2013. After dealin... |
| 31.07.2014 | Payments enabler First Data enters gift card business with Gyft acquisition | First Data, which manages transactions for banks and retailers, announced yesterday that it has acquired digital gift card company Gyft.
By combining resources, the two companies, will be able to offer consumers increased flexibility when s... |
| 30.07.2014 | First Data purchases digital gift card platform Gyft | Gyft will be integrated into First Data's POS solution and app marketplace
(Updated with comment from First Data and Gyft)
It's not all that hard to envision a world without any physical money, is it? I mean, I personally only carry cash on... |
| 30.07.2014 | First Data buys out Vinny Lingham’s Gyft in $50m+ deal | Gyft, the virtual gift card service founded by South African-born entrepreneur Vinny Lingham has been acquired by First Data, a big player in the payment technology and services space.
Neither party has disclosed the terms of deal, although... |
| 30.07.2014 | First Data buys out Vinny Lingham’s Gyft in $50m+ deal | Gyft, the virtual gift card service founded by South African-born entrepreneur Vinny Lingham has been acquired by First Data, a big player in the payment technology and services space.
Neither party has disclosed the terms of deal, althoug... |
| 30.07.2014 | First Data Acquires Mobile Gift Card Platform Gyft | Payment technology solution provider First Data has acquired mobile gift card platform Gyft, a previous TechCrunch Disrupt battlefield company which offers a mobile app that lets consumers organize, shop for and send gift cards to others. T... |
| 04.07.2014 | Here Are All The New Ways To Spend Bitcoin While You Weren’t Paying Attention | Only a year ago, “living on Bitcoin” meant merely surviving.
When Forbes reporter Kashmir Hill experimented by only buying in Bitcoin for a full week, she struggled to pay her rent and even to find food. Had Hill done her experiment today, ... |
| 23.04.2014 | eGifter Offers 3% Rewards for Gift Cards Bought With BTC, LTC or DOGE | Electronic gift card provider eGifter has launched a new incentive program for customers who want to pay with bitcoin, dogecoin or litecoin: a 3% discount in redeemable rewards on such purchases.
The eGifter Points program, officially launc... |
| 27.12.2013 | 5 Things to do With Those Christmas Bitcoins | It’s the festive season, and if there is a bitcoin fan among your friends and family, then they may have given you some of the virtual currency in your Christmas stocking. If so, what should you do with it?
There are several options for you... |
| 20.12.2013 | Blockchain.info: the World's Most Popular Bitcoin Website and Wallet | CoinDesk spoke to Nicolas and Ben of Blockchain.info about it being the #1 bitcoin site, how it will remain so into the future, why its users trust it so much and how online wallets need to be easy to use as well as secure.
The Blockchain.i... |
| 03.12.2013 | BitPay Sees 6,260% Increase in Bitcoin Black Friday Sales | Payment processor BitPay recorded a record number of transactions during the 'Bitcoin Black Friday' event on 29th November, accounting for 6% of all bitcoin transactions on the day, according to an announcement from the company.
"[The ... |
| 28.11.2013 | SnapCard Lets You Pay in Bitcoin at eBay and Amazon | Online startup snapCard wants to make it easier to use bitcoins online by skipping merchant integration altogether.
SnapCard users can purchase items from major retailers, even if their e-commerce platform doesn't accept bitcoin. Users can ... |
| 20.11.2013 | What The Bitcoin Bubble Really Says About The Cryptocurrency | Back in October, I bought $20 worth of Bitcoin for a ReadWrite article. Since then, I’ve watched my meager 0.119 coins soar in value.
When my stash peaked at $71 this week, I determined to sell out. I settled on buying a gift card from Gyft... |
| 18.10.2013 | Pay for groceries with bitcoin via eGifter's new Walmart giftcard | The lives of people attempting to live solely on bitcoin just got much easier, at least in the US. 'Social' gift card seller eGifter has started selling cards for retail behemoth Walmart.
eGifter began accepting bitcoin at the beginning of ... |
| 26.09.2013 |
Karlin Ventures Backs Gyft
| Los Angeles venture capital investor Karlin Ventures has made another investment this week, as part of the $5M, Series A round for Gyft, a mobile gift startup. Karlin joined A-Grade Investments, Social+Capital Partnership, Karlin Ventures, ... |
| 25.09.2013 | Gyft raises $5M to digitize the $29B gift card market | People spend $29 billion a year on those generic, plastic, “not sure what to get you” little tokens known as gift cards.
Gyft has raised $5 million in its first round of funding to put these gift cards on your mobile device, so at least you... |
| 25.09.2013 | Digital gift card platform Gyft raises $5M | Plastic still dominates, but gift cards will be going digital over the next decade
Is there anything quite as outdated as a plastic gift card? With the world quickly going digital, and people using their phones in lieu of their credit cards... |
| 25.09.2013 | Gyft Raises $5M in Series A Funding | Gyft, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based digital platform that enables customers to buy, send, manage and redeem gift cards via mobile devices, raised $5m in Series A funding.
Backers included new investors A-Grade Investments, Social+Capital ... |
| 25.09.2013 | Gyft raises $5M to digitize the $29B gift card market | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
People spend $29 billion a year on those generic, plastic, “not sure what to get you” little tokens known as gift cards.
Gyft has raise... |
| 25.09.2013 | Gyft raises $5m in Series A, investors include Ashton Kutcher’s VC fund | Gyft, the digital gift card platform that enables consumers to buy, send, manage and redeem gift cards via their mobile devices, has announced today that it has raised additional capital from new investors. Those investors are A-Grade Inves... |
| 25.09.2013 | Digital Gift Card Platform Gyft Raises $5 Million Series A | Gyft, a company building a digital platform to bring the plastic gift card industry to both web and mobile, has raised $5 million in Series A funding in a round led by Karlin Ventures, with participation from A-Grade Investments, Chamath Pa... |
| 25.09.2013 | Gyft raises $5m in Series A, investors include Ashton Kutcher’s VC fund | Gyft, the digital gift card platform that enables consumers to buy, send, manage and redeem gift cards via their mobile devices, has announced today that it has raised additional capital from new investors. Those investors are A-Grade Inves... |
| 25.09.2013 | Lingham’s Gyft secures $5m funding | - |
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What an eclectic mix of startups that secured fun... |
| 25.09.2013 | Gyft Announces $5M Series A |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Digital platform that enables customers to buy, send, manage and redeem gift cards via mobile devices, announced it has raised additional capital.
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| 11.09.2013 | Gyft Launches A “Wish List” For Gift Cards | The team from Gyft, an app bringing the gift card industry to your mobile phone, took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 today to introduce a new gift card registry option, which allows users to create something of a “wish list” of the... |
| 27.03.2013 | Targeting Game Developers, Mobile Gift Card Platform Gyft Launches APIs | Gyft, the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 finalist working to bring the plastic gift card industry to mobile, is today announcing the general availability of its APIs, which allow developers to integrate Gyft into websites, apps, or other servic... |
| 28.12.2012 | The Social Gift-Giving Wars — Which One Looked Best For The Holiday Season? | With the holiday season upon us, let’s take a look at some of the gift-giving services and how well they work, writes contributor Natasha Starkell.
Facebook’s acquisition of Karma earlier this year must have caused quite a few sighs and fad... |
| 12.12.2012 | Mobile Gift Card App Gyft Arrives On Android | Good things come in threes. Today, a third TechCrunch Disrupt alumni – in this case, Gyft – is launching on Android. Its debut follows news from earlier this morning which saw two other former participants, the Siri-like Maluuba app and Voc... |
| 23.11.2012 | “In the Studio,” Gyft’s Vinny Lingham Presents A Brilliantly Dead-Simple Idea For Holiday Gift-Giving | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been a contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
“In the Studio” powers through Black Friday by welcoming a serial entrep... |
| 13.11.2012 | Be a tactful regifter with Gyft It | Digital gift card platform Gyft unveils regifting feature
My friends and I have lots of stories about the horrible gifts we’ve received from guys we dated. One friend got a set of steak knives, even though she’s a vegetarian. Another friend... |
| 13.11.2012 | Mobile Gift Card App Gyft Starts Holiday Push With New Re-gifting Option, Weekly Giveaways | Gyft, the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 finalist which lets you buy, store and share plastic gift cards on your iPhone, is starting its big holidays push with the introduction of a new feature which will allow users to re-gift their own cards ... |
| 24.09.2012 | Gyft Brings Gift Cards From Over 200 Retailers To Apple’s Passbook | Gyft, the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 finalist, which lets you buy, save, redeem and share gift cards using your iPhone, has just launched Passbook integration. Because Gyft supports storing your plastic gift cards thanks to its relationship... |
| 12.09.2012 | YourMechanic drives off with first prize at TechCrunch Disrupt | YourMechanic is the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield competition. Lit Motors took second place.
Over the course of the three-day conference, 30 companies were whittled down to seven, which competed on stage to win a prize ... |
| 11.09.2012 | Gyft nabs $1.25M to digitize gift card industry | Tired of carrying around a bunch of Bed Bath & Beyond gift cards after your wedding? Download Gyft
It’s always interesting to see how old markets get revamped by digital media. Gift cards, for example, are a superfluous piece of plastic... |
| 10.09.2012 | Gyft Is Moving The Plastic Gift Card Industry To Your iPhone | Gyft, a new mobile application launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, allows you to buy, save and redeem gift cards using your mobile phone. Unlike the numerous mobile gifting applications currently available, Gyft isn’t attempting to carve ou... |
| 27.07.2012 | The Sable Accelerator: A gateway into Silicon Valley for SA startups | With the imminent launch of The Sable Accelerator, South African businesses look set to benefit from a new network of advisers and investors based in Silicon Valley and London that can help with international expansion.
Founded by South Afr... |
| 27.07.2012 | The Sable Accelerator: A gateway into Silicon Valley for SA startups | With the imminent launch of The Sable Accelerator, South African businesses look set to benefit from a new network of advisers and investors based in Silicon Valley and London that can help with international expansion.
Founded by South Af... |
| 23.04.2012 | Exclusive: A peek at ex-Yola chief’s new startup, Gyft | When well-known serial web entrepreneur, Vinny Lingham, recently resigned as CEO of his successful website builder and hosting service, Yola, he announced that he would be heading up a new venture called Gyft.
At the time of the announcemen... |
| 23.04.2012 | Exclusive: A peek at ex-Yola chief’s new startup, Gyft | When well-known serial web entrepreneur, Vinny Lingham, recently resigned as CEO of his successful website builder and hosting service, Yola, he announced that he would be heading up a new venture called Gyft.
At the time of the announceme... |
| 08.03.2012 | Yola boss Vinny Lingham steps down to launch new startup | Well-known Silicon Valley-based South African web entrepreneur Vinny Lingham has resigned as the CEO of Yola, the internet startup he founded about five years ago, to launch a new venture.
The new venture — Gyft — promises “to change the wa... |
| 08.03.2012 | Yola boss Vinny Lingham steps down to launch new startup | Well-known Silicon Valley-based South African web entrepreneur Vinny Lingham has resigned as the CEO of Yola, the internet startup he founded about five years ago, to launch a new venture.
The new venture — Gyft — promises “to change the w... |
| - | Обзор финалистов TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 | На этой неделе в Сан-Франсиско завершилось одно из главных мероприятий года - TechCrunch Disrupt SF!
Disrupt - это соревнование стартапов организованное TechCrunch’ем, основной приз которого $50 000. По прошествии трех дней и большого колич... |
