Quick Summary Last night on VH1’s wacky semi-reality show, Candidly Nicole, the socialite-turned-businesswoman Nicole Richie pitched to three investors, Shark Tank style. Yapp’s own CEO and co-founder, Maria Seidman, was one of the lucky three along with investors Damon John and Kevin…
Quick Summary Thanks to your votes, our CEO and co-founder Maria Seidman was named 2014’s Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year by Entrepreneur magazine. The magazine’s Startup edition featured Maria and Yapp in a great story about creating your own apps.…
Quick Summary Canva is a tool we’ve raved about a few times on our blog. It’s a super-simple design tool for any skill level. You can create from templated sizes, or you can work on your own canvas. After using…
Quick Summary Apple Music, n; A new streaming music service from Apple, announced yesterday. Apple Music combines iTunes, Beats Radio, and social networking to create a one-stop music haven. Apple Music’s main branch — streaming — is very similar to Spotify, but…
Quick Summary Giphy, n; A hugely popular search engine for animated images known as GIFs. The service integrates with popular communication services, making it dangerously easy to find and share GIFs (whether you need to or not.) The Giphy database is…
Quick Summary Periscope App, n; Live video app recently acquired by Twitter. Periscope, like the recently-popular Meerkat, streams live video from your phone to Twitter, where anyone can join in and watch. Though Meerkat and Periscope are identical in their mission…
Quick Summary Super, n; A new social network from Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, that has users respond to text prompts on top of images, then share with big audiences or small. Super’s app a mashup of many popular social apps, including Instagram, Twitter,…
Quick Summary Project Fi, n; Google’s newest code-named venture, a wireless phone network. Like many other secret Google ventures (Project Loon, Project Ara), Project Fi seems to be aimed at developing smartphone markets; the service is rumored to offer pay-per-gigabite plans…
Quick Summary Want to make a clone of your Yapp? Now, Plus users can do it quickly and easily from the dashboard. One of the perks of subscribing to Yapp Plus is the ability to make unlimited copies of apps you’ve…
