Next Entertainment wants to make it possible to live stream for a living

 A Taiwan-based startup called Next Entertainment has raised $25 million in...


Amino Apps raises $19.2M to build more mobile communities

 Amino Apps, a startup aiming to reinvent online forums for the mobile...


Bumble invests in gay dating app Chappy

 Bumble, the dating app that puts women in the driver’s seat, has...


Imgur tries to mature into a meme social network with chat and following

 There should be a term for how, given enough time, every social app adds a...


Fading anonymous social network Yik Yak is reportedly laying off most of its employees

 Yik Yak, the once universally recognized anonymous social network that...


Sean Rad steps away from CEO role (again) to run Tinder’s new Swipe Ventures

 Today, Tinder is launching a new M&A branch of the company called...


BuzzFeed hires Gilad Lotan as VP of data science

 BuzzFeed has a new vice president leading its data science team. Gilad...


Waggle raises $2.3 million because the internet doesn’t have enough funny animal videos

 A startup called Waggle raised $2.3 million in seed funding to become the...


Sequoia-backed video chat app Tribe spammed its customers’ address books

 Can mobile app startups please stop building SMS invite systems into their...


Hacker News calls for “political detox,” critics cry censorship

 Can social media even exist without political debate? What about...