May 22, 2014 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch May 22, 2014 ‘Tinderfaces’ are in app vogue right now. By which I mean Tinder-esque ‘swipe to filter’ interfaces. ‘X app is the Tinder of Y’ has become the standard descriptive shorthand for this trend (named, of course, for dating app Tinder which...
May 8, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch May 8, 2014 Long time player in the online learning space, Udemy, which has built a skills-based marketplace where individual tutors can sell their skills and learners can get access to courses (both paid and free), has just closed a $32 million Series C...
Apr 23, 2014 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch April 23, 2014 Now that TechCrunch has launched slideshows galleries I’m thinking of lining one up to illustrate the proliferation of on-demand car services/taxi apps in Europe. Earlier today there was Estonia’s Taxify taking in a $100,000 seed. And here’s...
Apr 23, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
TechCrunch April 24, 2014 Another funding round for another taxi app company — albeit this one, Estonian startup Taxify, is focusing on helping existing taxi companies fight the encroaching threat on their business from independent drivers making like cabbies with...
Apr 15, 2014 | News, North America, Oceania
TechCrunch April 15, 2014 Job outsourcing marketplace Freelancer.com has put down a portion of the money it raised from its IPO last fall on buying Warrior Forum, a marketplace and forum for digital marketing professionals.Freelancer.com filed for an IPO last October,...
