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Stickers-as-a-service startup PicoCandy helps apps make money and boost user engagement

May22
by on May 22, 2014 at 8:13 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia

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“We’re a startup that creates stickers for mobile messaging apps.” Some people might take that line and use it to fulfill some kind of tech bubble 2.0 vision. But, believe it or not, a strong market for stickers-as-a-service (yes, that is now a phrase) exists and is positively thriving. We previously wrote about Scringo, a company that provides stickers and infrastructure needed to sell them to app-makers, and Singapore-based PicoCandy is next company in this interesting space to catch our eye. PicoCandy launched in April, but already it has a staff of eight and has raised a seed funding round that founder…

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Chat app Line brings flash sales to Taiwan, the second country to get the service

May22
by on May 22, 2014 at 7:49 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Asia, messaging app, Product Updates

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We noted before that the future of mobile messaging apps included e-commerce, among other things, and Japanese chat app Line is taking this further as it revealed plans to hold flash sales in Taiwan, Focus Taiwan News reports. A Line representative confirmed the plans to TNW. Line partnered with Taiwanese e-commerce group Uitox to build the m-commerce platform and will start a pilot program with an array of consumer brands on June 10. Items being sold on its platform will include cosmetics, footwear and Line’s own branded merchandise, though Line is seeking more brand partners, according to Focus Taiwan News. Line, which…

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Chat app Line brings flash sales to Taiwan, the second country to get the service

May22
by on May 22, 2014 at 7:49 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Asia, messaging app, Product Updates

line friends
We noted before that the future of mobile messaging apps included e-commerce, among other things, and Japanese chat app Line is taking this further as it revealed plans to hold flash sales in Taiwan, Focus Taiwan News reports. A Line representative confirmed the plans to TNW. Line partnered with Taiwanese e-commerce group Uitox to build the m-commerce platform and will start a pilot program with an array of consumer brands on June 10. Items being sold on its platform will include cosmetics, footwear and Line’s own branded merchandise, though Line is seeking more brand partners, according to Focus Taiwan News. Line, which…

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Bitcoin shows signs of stability as it reaches $500

May22
by on May 22, 2014 at 7:31 am
Posted In: Around the Web, bitcoin, Insider

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The value of Bitcoin has passed the symbolic $500 mark for the first time in a month, suggesting that the cryptocurrency is stabilizing after a rollercoaster six months. Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $1,000 back in November of last year, but a lot has happened since then to change things. Mt. Gox, once the world’s top Bitcoin exchange, went bust and out of business, while China has carried out a series of crackdowns that have impacted exchanges in the country. Chart via Blockchain.info With the first generation of Bitcoin businesses like Mt. Gox less influential today, the hopes of ‘mass-marketizing’…

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