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Daily Precap - Thursday 12th July 2018
Daily Precap - Thursday 12th July 2018
Hey I’m Domm, it’s Thursday 12th July 2018, and this is your daily precap of the latest and greatest technology, startups, and business news.
HR and recruiting is typically one of the hardest parts of growing a company and has the most friction for employees, but hopefully it will get a whole better with New Zealand based company, Joyous, landing a $1.5M seed investment, led by Airtree Ventures. Joyous throws away typical HR conventions and instead enables employee to employer interactions through a conversational style messaging UI. Its the slack for HR.
Seatfrog, the Sydney based startup which aims to fill premium seats on planes and trains, by letting people bid to upgrade into empty seats, has just raised $8M bucks led by European venture capital firm Octopus Ventures. Their opportunity is huge, with empty seats on planes and trains representing tens of billions in lost revenue, annually.
If losing all your fake twitter followers over the last couple of months wasn’t enough, your Twitter follower count may shrink by another 6% next week, as Twitter makes a change to no longer count locked accounts in stats.
Youtube TV can’t seem to keep up with demand, It went down in May during an NBA match, and now again during a crucial World Cup Match on Wednesday. I guess Optus can feel slightly less embarrassed about its World Cup outages now.
But Youtube isn’t the only service with outages, Snapchat’s messaging service was down for hours late last night, and also experiencing widespread app crashes.
Startup Australia chief Alex McCauley has come out saying that we are driving startups to Singapore because of bickering between NSW and Victoria, over which is the most innovation and startup friendly cities. Shockingly, Brisbane, the countries 3rd largest city and with a booming startup ecosystem, didn’t get a mention.
Popular hotel booking site HotelsCombined has been bought, as Booking.com parent company looks to expand its Kayak business unit in Asia Pacific.
If you bought too much food at Woolies this week, there may soon be a solution with UK company Olio, raising $6M to grow its location-based app and website that lets you list and post a photo of unwanted food items to be sold to other people in the same neighbourhood.
Do NOT miss out on the best news, reviews and tip-offs about the most exciting happenings in tech, startups or product releases, make sure you are following me on instagram @domm, AND subscribe to the daily precap podcast, on your favorite podcast app.
That was your daily precap, I am Domm, thanks for listening.
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Daily Precap - Thursday 12th July 2018
Hey I’m Domm, it’s Thursday 12th July 2018, and this is your daily precap of the latest and greatest technology, startups, and business news.
HR and recruiting is typically one of the hardest parts of growing a company and has the most friction for employees, but hopefully it will get a whole better with New Zealand based company, Joyous, landing a $1.5M seed investment, led by Airtree Ventures. Joyous throws away typical HR conventions and instead enables employee to employer interactions through a conversational style messaging UI. Its the slack for HR.
Seatfrog, the Sydney based startup which aims to fill premium seats on planes and trains, by letting people bid to upgrade into empty seats, has just raised $8M bucks led by European venture capital firm Octopus Ventures. Their opportunity is huge, with empty seats on planes and trains representing tens of billions in lost revenue, annually.
If losing all your fake twitter followers over the last couple of months wasn’t enough, your Twitter follower count may shrink by another 6% next week, as Twitter makes a change to no longer count locked accounts in stats.
Youtube TV can’t seem to keep up with demand, It went down in May during an NBA match, and now again during a crucial World Cup Match on Wednesday. I guess Optus can feel slightly less embarrassed about its World Cup outages now.
But Youtube isn’t the only service with outages, Snapchat’s messaging service was down for hours late last night, and also experiencing widespread app crashes.
Startup Australia chief Alex McCauley has come out saying that we are driving startups to Singapore because of bickering between NSW and Victoria, over which is the most innovation and startup friendly cities. Shockingly, Brisbane, the countries 3rd largest city and with a booming startup ecosystem, didn’t get a mention.
Popular hotel booking site HotelsCombined has been bought, as Booking.com parent company looks to expand its Kayak business unit in Asia Pacific.
If you bought too much food at Woolies this week, there may soon be a solution with UK company Olio, raising $6M to grow its location-based app and website that lets you list and post a photo of unwanted food items to be sold to other people in the same neighbourhood.
Do NOT miss out on the best news, reviews and tip-offs about the most exciting happenings in tech, startups or product releases, make sure you are following me on instagram @domm, AND subscribe to the daily precap podcast, on your favorite podcast app.
That was your daily precap, I am Domm, thanks for listening.