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To defeat Elon Musk, Twitter needs … more NFTs

Ahhhh I can’t tell you how much I’m finally excited to say … Welcome to Chain Reaction. This is a new experiment for TechCrunch — it’s a newsletter and a podcast working toge

Venture firm Chapter One launches an incubator to give million-dollar checks to web3 startups

Chapter One, an LA-based venture firm which recently announced a $40 million crypto fund, is looking for ways to differentiate itself in the crowded crypto VC world. Its newest effort is called Chapte

NFT startup Dapper Labs acquires virtual influencer startup Brud

Dapper Labs, the NFT startup behind NBA Top Shot, which was recently valued above $7.5 billion, made an interesting acquisition this morning, telling Decrypt that they have purchased virtual influence

Avatar startup Genies scores $65 million in funding round led by Mary Meeker’s Bond

Over the past several years I’ve covered my fair share of upstart avatar companies that were all chasing the same dream — building out a customizable platform for a digital persona that ga

NBA Top Shot maker Dapper Labs is now worth $2.6 billion thanks to half of Hollywood, the NBA and Michael Jordan

From the early success of Crypto Kitties to the explosive growth of NBA Top Shot, Dapper Labs has been at the forefront of the cryptocurrency collectible craze known as NFTs. Now the company is reapin

Yahoo Nabs Display Ads Startup Dapper

<img src='http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/screen-shot-2010-10-05-at-2-50-50-pm.png' />Most recently in the news for its <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/10/01/yahoo-re-org/">execut

Dapper MashupAds Turn Your Website Into Contextual, Display Ads

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/dapper-screen-215x153.png" width="215" height="153" /> The most important ad for a company or brand is its Website. So why not use that Webs

Yahoo Loses Search Monkey Product Manager

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/searchmonkey_logo.png" width="180" height="184" />Yahoo may be pushing ahead with its strategy to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2008/04/24/the-new-yahoo-s

Deadpool: Teqlo Finds Out That Mashups Don't Make Money

Making my point that it is hard to make money from mashups, investors have pulled the plug on Teqlo. The startup, backed by Peter Rip, was originally focused on being a widget-based tool for creating

Dapper to Launch Instant Facebook AppMaker

This Tuesday, Israel-based Dapper will launch the private beta of Facebook AppMaker, a new tool that the company claims will provide people with a dead simple way to create new Facebook applications.

Five Ways to Mix, Rip, and Mash Your Data

Call them pipes, teqlos, dapps, modules, mashups or whatever else but fact is that recently we have seen a good number of new services that allow developers and users to build mini-apps and mashups th

OpenKapow: Not Quite Dapper

Today, Kapow Technologies has launched a new developer community, OpenKapow, based around their Kapow web-crawling bot. OpenKapow lets anyone use Kapow’s visual IDE (Kapow RoboSuite) to more eas

Make Your Own Netvibes Modules With Dapper

Mashup creation tool Dapper announced today that its users can now easily create new modules from any data source for placement in the popular start page Netvibes. Dapper is a company that’s eit

Dapper puts weather.com (and Matisyahu) on your calendar

Since we profiled Israeli startup Dapper, the controversial and very intriguing service has added about 2,000 new data sources that anyone can mix and mash from sites around the web. That’s been

Create an API for any site with Dapper

A new service called Blotter from startup Dapper (dappit.com) is getting some good coverage around the blogosphere today. Blotter graphs Technorati data for any blog over time. Most exciting to me tho