Sometimes, startups make mistakes. After talking to the founders, I don’t think Yik Yak is trying to censor its competitors through shady tactics. I believe they were just trying to stop spammy ads from… Read more »
That didn’t take long. Neetzan Zimmerman, the ousted editor-in-chief of anonymous app Whisper and former Gawker viral king, has landed a new gig. Political publication The Hill has hired him as… Read more »
That savvy Secret. The anonymous sharing network, which recently redesigned its entire product to save itself, isn’t going quietly into that dark night. It unrolled a new feature Monday allowing people at CES to view and… Read more »
As we lay 2014 to rest, we’re topping our hats to some of the social media crazes that came along with it. Messaging. Anonymity. Ephemerality. Yo (whatever that was). At the same… Read more »
Secret’s “dramatic” app update (which I foreshadowed earlier this month) has arrived. The Verge has published an in-depth look at the confessional app’s attempt to relaunch itself after user downloads and app… Read more »
Getting hacked seems to be a rite of passage for social media companies. It’s sign that they’ve grown big enough to attract the attention of the hacking community. Right on schedule, anonymous… Read more »
Secret, the anonymous messaging app that captured the attention of Silicon Valley in the months after its January launch, is struggling. Almost a year later, download rates at home and abroad… Read more »
Yik Yak has reportedly raised a whopping $62 million in venture in a round led by none other than Sequoia. This funding round matters because it brings the previously ignored company… Read more »
A recent report suggests that Whisper is tracking its users, even those who have opted out of geolocation services. The company says it’s “100 percent false.” Here’s the overview. Read more »
Yik Yak, the comparatively less famous anonymity play, has surpassed Secret and Whisper in iOS app store popularity. It pulled off an underdog triumph, but can it sustain the lead? Read more »