- Snapchat reportedly buys Bitstrips for roughly $100 million Link
- Snapchat users now spend 25 to 30 minutes every day on the app, and it’s trying to attract the TV Link
（THE BRIDGEの調達ニュースチェック、FB動画のダイジェストをテスト中です。リンクから来た方向け。）
SnapchatがBitstripsを買ったみたいですね。Fortuneの記事では株とキャッシュの組み合わせで総額1億ドルぐらい。Bitstripsは自分のプロフ画像を一コマ漫画みたいな感じにしてくれるサービスで、日本でもたまに使ってる人みるあれです。Snapchatのユーザーには確かに相性よさそう。メッセージングやコミュニケーションはビジネス規模がデカイだけに奥が深いです。
資金調達関連
- Billionaire investor Peter Thiel nabs another $1.3 billion for Founders Fund Link
- OneRent raises $4M as it expands to disrupt online real estate biz Link
- June raises $22.5 million, delays shipping its smart oven until the holidays Link
- TravelerCar raises $5.6 million to expand peer-to-peer car sharing business Link
VR・AR関連
- Oculus Rift will use a new technique to make VR ’20 to 100 times’ smoother Link
- The first Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets start to ship to backers Link
- 6 Oculus Rift experiences primed to change the way we think about VR Link
- The DeanBeat: At the Upload Collective, investors and entrepreneurs gather to evangelize VR Link
- Augmented reality game Pokémon GO will have you scouring your city for monsters Link
その他の話題
- People Will Still Have to Learn How to Drive Self-Driving Cars Link money because of it Link
- Uber is trying to recruit engineers by having them play a coding game on the road Link
- This new technique is changing how publishers sell ads Link
- 7 tech moguls who became billionaires by being master salesmen Link
- Domo, Slack and Tableau: How the disruptors are already facing disruption Link
