This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco based Publishing companies. These startups and companies operate a variety of Publishing solutions. We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands. Regardless, they are all exceptional startups and companies well worth a follow.
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We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top San Francisco Publishing Companies
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Medium
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Medium is a social publishing platform that allows anyone to share ideas and perspectives that matter. For writers, Medium offers simple creation tools combined with a larger distribution network.
For readers, Medium allows people to follow people and topics that matter to them and receive a personalized feed of content every day. Readers can join in the conversation by highlighting, recommending, or responding to posts.
It was founded n 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.. .
Substack
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Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions. They provide web and newsletter publishing tools that are purpose-built for paid subscriptions.
It also offers an all-in-one solution to help you get paid for your writing. Their tools will include easy-to-use editing software that can handle the simultaneous publication of stories and newsletters for a payments solution that makes subscriptions intuitive and manageable for both publisher and reader.
They also share features that allow stories to find large audiences outside the paywalls and design templates so that publishers can create beautiful reading experiences. Substack was founded in 2017 by Jairaj Sethi, Christopher Best, and Hamish McKenzie and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA..
Scribd
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Scribd is the unlimited reading subscription that offers access to the best books, audiobooks, news and magazine articles, documents and more. Scribd’s e-book subscription service is available on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as well as the Kindle Fire, Nook, and personal computers.
Scribd brings together the best books, audiobooks, and journalism to help readers become their best selves. The company offers unlimited access to the best books, audiobooks, articles, documents, and more, all in one app..
Casetext
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Casetext is a widely used A.I. legal research technology, has been adopted across the legal market from the largest Am Law 100 law firms to solo practices.
Its award-winning technology offers both conventional search functionality and its CARA A.I. powered contextual search, focuses on the context of a research to help find on-point authorities faster.
Founded by a team of former litigators from top law firms, as well as Ph.D. data scientists and leading A.I.
engineers, Casetext helps legal researchers find the best cases, faster, including many that they would otherwise miss. Casetext was founded on 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California..
Asana
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Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
Inkling Systems
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Inkling is a single system that lets teams create great content, share it on any digital device, and measure how it’s being used. It helps businesses succeed in today’s mobile world with data-driven content that can be accessed by any user, on any device, anywhere in the world.
Inkling’s first-of-its-kind software prioritizes content intelligence—enabling businesses to maximize their content’s value with real-time data insights. Based in San Francisco, Inkling is backed by Sequoia Capital, and partners with the world’s leading brands to enable their content for the digital space..
POPSUGAR
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POPSUGAR is a global women’s lifestyle brand that offers updates, trends, and tips in entertainment, fashion, parenting, fitness, and shopping categories. It also offers original video content series, live event coverage, shopping experiences, and one-on-one celebrity and expert interviews targeting women aged 18 to 40.
POPSUGAR enables brands to reach their consumers by creating branded content, custom solutions, and content in various formats, including display, video, mobile, and offline experiences. POPSUGAR was launched by Andy Moss, Jason Rhee, Arthur Cinader, Krista Moatz, Lisa Sugar, and Brian Sugar in April 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California.
It is funded by [Sequoia Capital](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sequoia-capital) and [Institutional Venture Partners](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/institutional-venture-partners), and has offices in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.. .
Instaread
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Instaread gives key insights of books in text & audio!
MoPub
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MoPub is a mobile monetization platform that helps publishers drive more revenue from advertising and mobile transactions.
YouAppi
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YouAppi’s 360 Platform is the leading growth marketing platform for premium mobile brands. By combining the power of machine learning with YouAppi’s proprietary predictive algorithms and cohort technology, YouAppi can analyze the mobile content consumption patterns of over two billion users, converting data into profitable users.
Headquartered in San Francisco, YouAppi operates across eleven countries in Asia, Europe and North America. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, or for more information, visit www.youappi.com..
VigLink
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VigLink is a platform for monetizing content-driven commerce. VigLink is built on the idea that publishers should be compensated for the content they create and the commerce they drive.
The company monetizes ordinary links to over 30,000 retailers with technology that works across sites, apps, and social networks. Because the monetization is automated, content publishers can focus on creating great content and avoid the hassles of managing countless affiliate programs.
The largest network of its kind, VigLink maximizes earnings for tens of thousands of publishers and works with more than 30,000 merchants, processing over ten billion page views and over five hundred million clicks every month. VigLink offers publishers three products: [VigLink Convert](http://www.viglink.com/products/convert) converts _existing_ links into links that earn revenue.
Clicks that turn into purchases from anyone in their growing list of over 30,000 retailers, turn into commissions. Through its exclusive [optimizer](http://www.viglink.com/products/convert/optimizer) technology, VigLink can optionally swap existing links for more lucrative alternatives.
[VigLink Insert](http://www.viglink.com/products/insert) uses state-of-the-art semantic technology to automatically link text mentions of merchants, brands, and products to the most relevant and valuable destination. Publishers typically double their VigLink revenue after enabling this feature. [VigLink Anywhere](http://www.viglink.com/products/anywhere) monetizes links posted to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or even emails. Publishers just build the URL with VigLink, shorten if they like, and share anywhere.Bleacher Report
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Bleacher Report (B/R), bleacherreport.com, a division of Turner Sports, is a leading publisher of original and entertaining sports content and one of the fastest growing sports media Web sites in the U.S. Bleacher Report was founded in 2007 by four lifelong fans who’d consumed their fill of bland Internet sports content.
Since launching in 2008, B/R’s Web site has grown to a massive audience. The result is first-rate sports commentary that gives B/R’s audience the stories they want to read in real-time.
Bleacher Report also has a five-star mobile App and some the Web’s most popular email newsletters. B/R’s goal is to deliver engaging digital media experiences to sports fans all over the world..
Smaato
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Smaato’s Digital Advertising Technology Platform gives publishers the controls to deliver seamless, tailored, and engaging experiences for their audiences and advertisers. Advanced targeting capabilities and competitive intelligence help publishers optimize their monetization strategy to create data-driven experiences and reach their full revenue potential.
Founded in 2005, Smaato is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Hamburg, New York, Shanghai, Beijing, and Singapore. Learn more at www.smaato.com..
SAY Media
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Say Media is a digital publishing company. Through its award-winning Tempest publishing platform and media services, Say Media enables its portfolio of independent content creators to build passionate communities around key consumer interest areas such as Style, Living, Food and Tech.
The company provides simple and accountable ways for the world’s top brands to engage with these passionate audiences, at scale, with a reach of more than 400 million people around the world. Say Media is headquartered in San Francisco and New York, with offices across North America, in the UK and Australia..
Suggestic
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Suggestic’s platform enables health-related organizations to build and deliver personalized nutrition programs in a fraction of the time and cost through white label solutions or direct API integration. Powered by proprietary artificial intelligence, the Suggestic platform allows for the encoding of dietary programs as rulesets.
It then enables data acquisition from users and members in the form of assessments, lab tests, and devices. Based on the rulesets of the program and the user data, the platform delivers personalized food recommendations in the form of meal plans, smart shopping lists, recipe and restaurant recommendations, food logging, and more..
Holloway
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Holloway publishes comprehensive practical Guides, each researched, written, and refined by experts.
Arena.im
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Arena.im is a cloud-based marketing platform for live experiences. Their mission is to empower media companies to take back ownership of their audience from social networks and grow their community.
With Arena.im, publishers, brands and broadcasting companies are capable to significantly increase traffic, engagement and earn revenue. Through an AI technology, Arena.im is capable to aggregate, curate and distribute content in scale to any device, anytime, anywhere.
They enable a seamless live experience for sports, news, finance, tech and any other real-time events. Founded in 2016 by Paulo Martins and Rodrigo Reis, Arena.im is a disruptive marketing experience platform that empowers thousands of media companies to provide the best live experience for their audiences directly from their digital properties..
Tout
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Tout is the TV network for the Internet. A spin-out from the Stanford Research Institute (SRI International), Tout’s Personalized TV Technology is the first patented AI technology that delivers targeted video programming based on who you are and where you are across the web.
Tout works with more than 300 leading content producers and over 3,500 publishers to significantly grow online video revenue and drive deeper engagement with consumers. Delivering over 400MM video streams to 85MM unique viewers every month, Tout provides unprecedented scale and brand-safety to hundreds of Fortune 1000 advertisers who want to align their brands with the highest quality and contextual relevant video content.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Tout works with top media brands like CNN, Fox Sports and Time Inc. to deliver personalized TV across the Web..
Levo
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Levo is the largest and fastest-growing professional network for millennials.
StudySoup
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StudySoup is an exchange where students can upload or download class notes.
adBrite
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adBrite is the largest independent advertising exchange. adBrite first started taking advertising for external sites in 2003, and raised $4 million in venture capital from Sequoia in 2004.
In 2006, adBrite raised another $8 million from Sequoia and Artis Capital, the same pair that invested together in YouTube. In 2008, adBrite changed its business model and became an ad exchange.
adBrite maximizes selection and control for advertisers and publishers by providing site-level transparency, display and video capabilities, and an open platform for data providers and real-time bidders. adBrite now reaches more than 160 million U.S.
unique visitors each month.. .
Federated Media
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Federated Media is an integrated media company that drives engagement for brands through pure native content and advertising solutions. Federated Media is involved in many content marketing activities: represents online publishers and their properties to advertisers; supports other properties sponsored by advertiser clients; and owns and operates websites.
It also offers media and ad solutions, including standard IAB ads, STAMP and other high-impact ads, engagement ads, conversationalists, social frames, and conversation targeting; content marketing services through custom content series and sponsored blog posts; and advertising opportunities on sponsored properties and communities.. .
Sprout
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Sprout helps creative professionals build rich media HTML5 ads simply. Their AdVine platform is integrated with leading mobile ad networks and publishers.
Anyone can now build rich HTML5 mobile ads once then run everywhere. Fully integrated with the leading ad servers and social networks, Sprout campaigns can run anywhere your consumers spend time online.
Sprout customers include Disney, Warner Bros., HBO, Federated Media, Intel, Technorati, Toyota, and MTV. Funded by Polaris Venture Partners, Sprout is based in Honolulu, HI and San Francisco, CA.
To learn more, visit sproutinc.com.. .
Deep BI, Inc.
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Predictive Customer Data Platform (CDP) with real-time user scoring. Deep.BI helps enterprises leverage big data and AI algorithms to analyze people behavior and product usage at scale, build habits and engagement, and predict next best actions.
Our customers come mainly from Media, Retail and Marketing industries.. .
Sphere
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Sphere is pioneering how 360º content gets recorded, distributed, and viewed. The company has 20 pending patents that range from smartphone–based mapping and tracking techniques to bandwidth–sensitive streaming technology for 360º video.
Sphere has licensed its software development kit to 60+ brands in 2012, including Samsung, Sony, HomeAway, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and Viator. The company is on track for its Sphere app to be pre-loaded on 67 million devices in 1Q14.
Sphere is a team of 10, with most of their team comprised of engineers. Their offices are located in San Francisco, California..
True Anthem
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True Anthem is an AI-Powered Content Distribution Platform for media companies and publishers. Clients use their Platform to drive significant increases in monetization by efficiently distributing their most popular stories across social media.
They pioneered the use of artificial intelligence to identify the right content for social audiences and then automatically post it at the right time. Unlike legacy scheduling tools and manual social media processes, the resulting increases in traffic, revenue, and efficiency, typically result in a 300% lift in ROI for our clients.
The company partner with-local media and global news organizations including Tribune, Hearst, and Reuters; feature publishers such as Meredith, and online giants including CBS Interactive. True Anthem is based in San Francisco, California..
Reveel Technologies, Inc.
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Join the media REVEELution! Reveel is the first company to allow audiences to view an interactive media experience from print, digital, video and broadcast media on any browser – without downloading an app or producing additional creative. Reveel’s patent pending cloud-based platform allows brands, agencies and media outlets to increase audience engagement and revenue by seizing the moment of interest and converting it into measurable action.
Consumers go to Reveel.it on their mobile browser and snap a photo of print or broadcast media or click on digital media displayed on websites or online video to explore, learn and buy. Anyone can create a custom Reveel landing page online in minutes, then publish it across media channels so it can be viewed on mobile and desktop devices..
Bold
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Bold is a a publishing and editing platform for enterprise.
SnappyTV
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SnappyTV is a cloud-based social video publishing and distribution platform that allows content owners to edit and share rich media content across web, mobile and social in real time. SnappyTV is changing how media companies create digital content, making it seamless and inexpensive to provide content to a digital audience.
The SnappyTV platform allows content owners to quickly and easily create video clips, highlight reels, full digital segments, GIFs, photos and memes from over-the-air broadcasts in real-time and publish instantly to social media, the web and mobile.. .
MaxPlay
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MaxPlay is a game technology and services company focused on advancing game development tools and processes so that developers can create, publish, and operate games faster than ever before. Led by a world-class team of proven experts in game development, enterprise software, data science, and publishing, MaxPlay is dedicated to enabling, partnering and collaborating with game developers in all aspects of the gaming ecosystem so they can spend more time creating and running their games.
MaxPlay’s Game Development Suite (GDS) is the only game development solution that combines an extensible service-oriented architecture with a high-performance runtime engine to give developers the power to collaborate, create, and operate games more effectively in today’s increasingly complex, global, multi-platform environment.. .
Cloudcade
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Cloudcade is a free-to-play mobile games developer and publisher. We were founded in 2014 with the vision of creating beautiful and innovative games with a global, mass market appeal.
Our formula of superior user experience and metrics-driven design led to dramatic success with our initial title Shop Heroes. Through this and our international publishing expertise, Cloudcade has stayed ahead of the competition and reached millions of players around the world.
Our mission is to elevate the way players game by creating fun, original and deeply engaging experiences unparalleled in quality and usability. We have over 100 employees worldwide, with operations headquartered in San Francisco and development studios strategically positioned in Lahore and Shanghai.
For more information on cloudcade, please visit http://cloudcade.com. .
SquareTwo
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SquareTwo is a mobile games publisher that creates simple yet compelling games where points have real value, leveraging their own Media and Rewards platform. Their initial title verydice has a simple game loop that compels users to share, engage and redeem points for actual goods.
Founded in 2016, the team experimented with retention and monetization around simple game play dynamics. By mid 2017, they had launched their first title on iOS, verydice, and were able to generate monthly profit.
The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.. .
Granite Media
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Granite Media aims to make quality storytelling and digital journalism profitable and sustainable through the use of modern technologies, data science, and business innovation. Granite is a digital media company headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
The company publishes websites and articles in categories such as finance, travel, sports, and more. Through original stories, Granite helps our audience discover, explore, and have a bit of fun with the world around them.
Granite sells 100% of its advertising through the major programmatic exchanges. To learn more, please contact the company below..
Vicomi
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Vicomi offers a platform that provides publishers, brands and agencies with tools to measure user’s sentiments.
Reading Rainbow
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Reading Rainbow is an interactive application delivering digital media content that is both educational and entertaining. It is available for iPad, Kindle Fire, and more.
Designed for children from 3 to 9 years of age, the application provides a library of hundreds of curated books and all new videos presented in a world of adventure and discovery. Reading Rainbow brings together books from numerous acclaimed children’s publishers and each book comes alive with audio storytelling by celebrity actors, including spoken word Grammy winner Burton himself, and features light animations and related activities to enhance the story.
Reading Rainbow was launched in 2012 by LeVar Burton. It is based in San Francisco, C.A..
Hyperink
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Hyperink is a self-publishing platform that allows users to curate and create books on topics ranging from technology to travel.
Distill
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Distill strive to take the pain out of hiring and recruiting. They’re building hiring tools to maximize the interview process as well as rethinking the optimal ways to screen candidates.
Developing data-driven products that work for recruiters, hiring managers, interviewers and candidates.. .
Inside Warehouse
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Integrating Content and Commerce Experience eCommerce proves to be one of the most profitable options for content publishers to create new revenue channels and enhance engagement with their audience base We’ve developed a unique semantics-based tool which links products (features) with website text content. Through Inside Warehouse plug-in embedded in Publisher’s site consumers are able to purchase products related to the content from multiple distributors with a single click without leaving the publisher’s site.
Publisher transforms visitor into lifetime customer instead of building traffic and revenue stream to third-party websites/retailers.. .
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Inkshares is a social platform that conflates the mechanics of crowdfunding with the distribution of traditional publishing to change the economics of book publishing. The authors submit book ideas and the readers share them, collaborate with authors, and pre-order their books.
They publish books that hit their pre-order goal. Votes are cast with money as pre-orders, readers end up subsidizing their production costs.
This greatly reduces their risk profile, meaning if a book doesn’t sell, the worst they can do is break even. Inkshares probes for hits without losing money.
And it’s because of this model that they can pay authors 50% of gross revenue for print sales and 70% for ebook sales.. .
TFE Times
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TFE Times is an online platform that offers news to its users. The platform offers news on business, culture, and tech to its users.
Furthermore, it provides rankings on colleges, accounting, business analytics, computer engineering, economics, education, finance, law, management, marketing, and medicine. Furthermore, it provides its users with tips on programming.
TFE Times was launched in 2013.. .
Wear Your Voice
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Wear Your Voice is a digital magazine for women that covers news on issues such as LGBTQI rights, race, gender and body politics, and more.
Wonders
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Wonders is a mobile journal app for premium quality visual stories about travel and outdoors. They source these stories from hand-picked community of photographers, publishers and brands.
With Wonders 2.0 (November 2015) users can also purchase featured photographs as premium-quality prints or digital wallpapers, allowing featured photographers to earn income traveling full-time. Download Wonders now at: http://apple.co/1L3tZA3 Visit our site at: www.wndrs.com.
Haul
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Haul is a publishing platform and an open marketplace. They enable anyone (bloggers, sellers, brands) to write articles.
– The only rule for an article is that it must be about something that is for sale. – The article can either link to an item that is for sale on another site OR it can be sold directly on Haul using Haul’s credit card checkout system..
Fileblaze
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Fileblaze is a way to transfer and preview large quantities of rich media files such as music, video, and image libraries.
Blurb
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Blurb (www.blurb.com) is an indie publishing platform that lets anyone create and publish professional-looking coffee-table books and fixed-format ebooks via free desktop and online software or integration with Adobe InDesign. Authors can then share and sell their book directly from their website, blog, or social network via Blurb’s Direct Sell tools.
Blurb handles printing – POD or offset – and shipping of any orders. Founded in 2006, Blurb is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, CA with offices in London.
In October of 2007, the company introduced features that let users collaboratively create books and share photos via its online bookmaking tool – Bookify. In 2008 Blurb launched a tool to turn your blog into a book via its staple desktop publishing software – BookSmart., Unlike [Lulu](http://www.lulu.com) and [iUniverse](http://www.iuniverse.com) who tend to focus on creating books out of manuscripts Blurb’s focus has traditionally been on coffee-table books such as art books, children’s books, graphic novels, photography books, and architecture books.
Blurb is also a great solution for everyday consumers to create gorgeous looking personal keepsakes and gifts such as wedding books, holiday books, and books from your Instagram and Facebook photos.. .
ArtMap Inc. (AMI Publications)
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This digital storytelling company is building 15+ community driven publications, such as HackerNoon.com & ExtraNewsFeed.com.
Byliner
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Byliner works directly with the world’s best writers to deliver their stories to readers. Hailed by Fast Company as “One of the 10 Most Innovative Media Companies in the World,” we publish original fiction and nonfiction e-shorts by top authors such as Amy Tan, Margaret Atwood, Jon Krakauer, Nick Hornby, Sebastian Junger, and more.
These e-shorts are written to be read in two hours or less, and can be purchased individually through major digital bookstores. The entire Byliner Originals library is also available online to Byliner subscribers, who get access to premium content from Byliner’s by-invitation community of writers–including thousands of rarely-seen and exclusive stories from bestselling authors..
Plympton
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DailyLit, their consumer-facing product, consists of a team of publishers, product designers and engineers on a mission to bring the best fiction and non-fiction to the world’s 600 million smartphones and tablets. And they do it in a way that fits into daily life’s small moments.
They are the only team that combines world-class software engineers (MIT, ex-Palantir) with an eminent editorial staff (New York Times-bestselling author) that has relationships with publishers of the world’s best writers. Their library has included stories from: – Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner – Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize Winner – Julia Glass, National Book Award Winner – John Grisham, 250 million+ books sold Acquired by Plympton in spring 2013, DailyLit was founded 2006 by USV Partner Albert Wenger and Susan Danziger.
It has grown to 200,000 users and a mailing list of 150,000. We are building a next-generation mobile e-reading app focused on curated selections—shorter form and serialized—for subscription..
Echo
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Echo provides the industry’s first and largest provider of Real-time Engagement Products. It’s used by Brands and Media Companies to transform static websites and mobile apps into real-time experiences that significantly boost traffic, increase user engagement, and drive more revenue.
Echo serves over 1.5 billion page-views per month for customers including AMC Networks, ESPN, Food Network, Travel Channel The Washington Post, USA Network, XO Group and more.. .
Appstores.com
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Appstores.com develops tools that indicate the relevant applications required for catering to users’ needs.
Tactilize
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Tactilize is a new way of blogging, enabling for the first time to publish content on iPad. You can now discover new stories every day! Limitless Creativity…
Tell your own stories with videos, pictures, texts, audios in one page (we call it “Card”) through your account on Tactilize.com, and publish it instantly on iPad. – It’s creative! Compose and design your own cards.
– Do it instantly! Just click to publish, and it’s on your iPad. – So easy! You don’t need to have any technical knowledge..
The Information
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The Information is a subscription-based publication and online magazine that provides information, news, and articles related to technology and its current trends. It provides professionals who are interested in technology, its current trends, and developments with its information and news.
It provides news and information related to applications, product launches, investments, events, and related areas in the industry of technological developments. Its segments include news related to information technology, digital media, mobile and telecommunications, and much more.
The Information is headquartered in San Francisco, California.. .
INgrooves Music Group
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INgrooves is a leading provider of digital distribution, marketing and promotion services to the global music, video and book publishing communities via its ONE Digital platform. ONE Digital is a proprietary software platform that provides distribution and administration to large distributors, record labels and film production companies.
INgrooves provides clients customized distribution, marketing, promotion, synch licensing and administrative support to help maximize the earnings potential of specific audio and video releases or catalogues. INscribe Digital, recently launched in July 2010, provides publishers large and small with an easy and transparent system to manage their digital business..
Timbuktu Labs
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Timbuktu makes mobile toys for creative learning. We promote imagination as a tool to discover the world.
All our products are designed in Milan and developed in San Francisco. We are part of 500startups.
We won Best Design at LAUNCH Education and Kids 2012. We’ve been nominated 2012 Best Italian Startup.
We’ve been featured several times by Apple in the US Top5 Education.. .
Netvibes
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Netvibes is a provider of Dashboard Intelligence: 3As: Aggregation, Analytics and Automation to help faster & more reliable Decision-Making Netvibes Dashboard platforms transform browsing, sharing, and tagging into tangible business data to share, analyze, and act on in real-time. Listen to Everything.
Learn from Everyone. Act in Real-Time.
This is Dashboard Intelligence, the evolution of Business Intelligence.. .
Tronic.fm
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Tronic.fm is SaaS publishing and management platform for creatives and businesses in the music industry. Their platform stitches together all the necessary parts to make it work again (consider them ERP for the music industry).
From artist promotion and booking, media syndication, fan collaboration, venue scheduling, ticketing and commerce.. .
Novi
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Novi allows readers to follow the news stories that matter to them through an intelligently designed news reading platform. Your current news reader is stuck in 2005.
They don’t effectively capture the way in which people consume news. Novi allows users to get access to the news that matters to you by allowing you to follow stories instead of news outlet, blogs, or journalists.
Novi automatically updates stories as more information becomes available and screens each article for quality, credibility and repeated stories. This is achieved through our proprietary algorithm.
On top of our algorithm, our editor suggests news stories for you to follow in order to give you access to stories you might not know about but would be interested in. Each story is displayed in an intelligently designed timeline that allows the user to process the story chronologically..
iWin
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iWin is a leading developer and publisher of online casual games for the mass market. The company offers free games and premium download games games through its web site iWin.com.
As of Spring 2007, the web site offers customers a new game every day. There are also numerous multiplayer games such as Family Feud Online Party with chat, profiles, friends list, and a thriving community.
Additionally, a new Hotel iWin product adds a social networking and virtual world component to casual gameplay. Players earn a virtual currency called Opals based on gameplay and can spend them decorating hotel rooms or avatars.
iWin also distributes its games through several leading web properties including Yahoo, RealNetworks, MSN, Shockwave and AOL.. .
Macworld
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Macworld is your best source for all things Apple. They give you the scoop on what’s new, what’s best and how to make the most out of the products you love.
Macworld is the leading voice on the Apple ecosystem, covering everything from the Mac and OS X to iPhones, iPads, and more. With unmatched perspective and definitive expertise, they help people who love Apple learn what’s new, what’s best, and what they need to know about the products they love.
Whether you’re a Mac die-hard or an iPad newbie, turn to Macworld to make the most of the Apple universe. Macworld is also IDG’s leader in trailblazing new platforms and media formats.
With apps on both iPhone and iPad and a premium website subscription offering, their products aim to satisfy the hunger of a passionate and loyal audience. Macworld Superguide ebooks are also best-selling sources of Apple wisdom and education..
Rebel Girls
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Rebel Girls is a global, multi-platform edutainment brand, dedicated to inspiring and instilling confidence in a generation of girls around the world. Rebel Girls started from a 2016 international bestselling children’s book, featuring real-life, extraordinary women throughout history, geography, and field of excellence, focusing on creators, innovators, leaders, and champions.
In addition to its bestselling book series, Rebel Girls creates an award-winning, chart-topping podcast, brought to life by the voices of phenomenal current-day women. Rebel Girls offers virtual experiences and toys, and is expanding its reach to television, live theater, and a digital app.
Its community of self-identified Rebel Girls spans over 100 countries, with 6M books sold in 49 languages and more than 10M podcast downloads.. .
Allsides
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Allsides is an online media platform that provides balanced news.
eBay Classifieds Group
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eBay Classifieds Group is a marketplace that provides classifieds services.
LookSmart
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LookSmart (NASDAQ:LOOK) is an online search advertising network solutions company that provides performance solutions for online search advertisers and online publishers. LookSmart offers advertisers targeted, performance based search advertising via its Advertiser Network; and an Ad Center platform for customizable private-label advertiser solutions for online publishers.
LookSmart is based in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.looksmart.com/ or call 415-348-7500..
ZEPHYR Digital
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ZEPHYR Digital is a bespoke ad monetization tool for discerning publishers. The platform helps publishers solve their pressing needs that maximizes both performances and revenues.
All publishers and contents are qualified through partner programs that guarantees market success and brand safety. The company believes in a partnership and relationship that requires consistent results and actionable feedback.
The clients of the company are BBDO, Ogilvy, OMD, groupm, WPP, and dentsu. The partners of the company are abc, zynga, CBS, and Daily Mail.
It also offers opportunities that promotes and distributes 360° interactive video ads. The company’s global network is driven through the U.S., the U.K., China, and Singapore.
ZEPHYR Digital is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014 by Andrew Wang.. .
Little Pickle Press
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Little Pickle Press focuses on helping parents and educators cultivate conscious, responsible little people.
The Bold Italic
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The Bold Italic is an online magazine, shop, and events hub in San Francisco. We celebrate the free-wheeling spirit of the city.
We are a chorus of voices. The Bold Italic publishes first person stories by locals on issues and topics that are on the brains and lips of San Franciscans.
We are not a news site, we’re a hub for conversations to be heard and discussed. Some of the pieces we publish will make you laugh.
Some will have you nodding your head in agreement. And others will completely piss you off.
The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of The Bold Italic, but they are the true opinions, experiences, and thoughts of writers from the diverse community we live amongst. Whatever feelings our stories incite, we hope our continuing conversation will get you thinking, talking, and inspire you to share your opinions with us on living in San Francisco.
If you’ve got a compelling story or perspective to share, we want to hear it. Scroll to the bottom of this page to find out how to contribute your story.
ZEDO
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ZEDO, Inc. is a platform offering high impact formats.
Known for technical innovation and ability to scale, ZEDO offers publishers products and services – including ad serving – and high impact formats with 99% viewable impressions. ZEDO also serves advertisers through ZINC, a suite of high impact formats including video and native ads on premium sites.
Founded in 1999, ZEDO is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Phoenix, and development centers in Russia and India. As the largest independent ad technology player, the company is distinguished by its global reach and cosmopolitan market knowledge..
SF Gate
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SFGate is the homepage of the Bay Area and the Web home for the San Francisco Chronicle. With more than 12 million unique visitors per month, SFGate is the leading news and information Web site for the San Francisco Bay Area.
Reflecting the diverse spirit of the region, SFGate delivers the latest round-up of stories, in-depth special reports, local sports coverage, regional listings, and entertainment coverage. SFGate is home to the San Francisco Chronicle, along with web-only features by SFGate’s own editorial team.
SFGate was founded in 1994 and is based in San Francisco, United States.. .
Greystripe
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Greystripe is the leading mobile advertising platform that provides smarter mobile solutions through full-screen ad formats, world-class data and proprietary cross-device targeting capabilities. With over eight years of mobile experience, Greystripe delivers the highest engagement rates for brand marketers, maximum revenue for publishers and app developers, and the best ad experience for users.
Greystripe is a product line of ValueClick Inc. (NASDAQ: VCLK), one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive online marketing services companies.
Greystripe was named one of the Top Ten Most Innovative Companies in Mobile by Fast Company in 2011, the MOBI Awards’ Best Mobile Rich Media Network in 2010, E-Tech CTIA award winner for the Mobile Marketing/Mobile Advertising category in 2009, AlwaysOn OnMedia 100 winner in 2009, AlwaysOn Global 100 winner in 2008, Red Herring Global 100 winner in 2007 and the Under the Radar Best in Show: Mobility winner in 2006.. .
Storia Inc.
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Storia is a collaborative, visual storytelling service with a mobile-first strategy, a robust web/desktop component, and plans for global deployment. Capture personal projects and adventures in ongoing stories with flexible control over how you create, with whom and who sees what you share.
Storia is being built as a global system robust enough to deploy their product in multiple markets and communities around the world. Their website infrastructure includes a complete content management system with search and algorithms for content discovery and display.
The site has a community management system with an administration panel, support ticketing system and an auto responder email notification system. They are managing the localization process with their own content management system and translation server..
San Francisco Chronicle
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San Francisco Chronicle is a media company that publishes websites, newspapers, and other products for the greater San Francisco Bay Area. It includes global news, business and technology coverage, regional information, classifieds, entertainment, sports, and more.
San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 in San Francisco, California.. .
Technorati
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Technorati builds advertising platforms for high-level publishing firms.
Social Print Studio
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Social Print Studio creates a suite of photo apps and print products from the pictures shared on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram.
Alternet
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AlterNet is an online community that publishes original journalism and increases the quality of hundreds of other independent media sources. It is a program of the Independent Media Institute, a non-profit organization that empowers people with independent journalism, information, and media tools.
AlterNet’s objective is to encourage action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and more. It is an award-winning news magazine and online community providing free online content to millions of readers, serving as a filter, keeping its audience well-informed and engaged.
AlterNet was launched in 1998.. .
Turgo
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Turgo is a video advertising and distribution company that specializes in delivering premium placements and exclusive live content to the world’s largest brands, publishers, and creative artists. Our team is comprised of ad tech veterans and top industry leadership, committed to pushing Turgo to the programmatic forefront by providing transparent and scalable cross-device solutions for vertical, native and pre-roll video formats.
Turgo is a key player in the video advertising and distribution industry with its powerful data technology, unique inventory and exceptional customer service. Turgo is backed by John Hadl of US Venture Partners..
Torrentfreak
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TorrentFreak is a publication that features the latest news copyright, privacy, and other news related to filesharing.
All Business
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All Business is a leading online resource for businesses. The Company operates one of the Web’s premier business sites, providing practical information and services for business professionals and growing businesses.
The site includes how-to articles and videos, business forms, contracts and agreements, expert advice, blogs, business news, directory listings, business guides and more. In addition to its flagship Web site, the Company’s content can be accessed by its content syndication program, RSS feeds and e-mail newsletters.
The company was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in December 2007.. .
Law
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Law provides an online source that delivers legal news and analysis for attorneys and other legal professionals. It is the web’s leading legal news and information network for attorneys and other legal professionals.
Law.com Inc. is handled by [American Lawyer Media](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/american-lawyer-media).
Subscribers to the website can access stories from across [American Lawyer Media’s](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/american-lawyer-media) national and regional publications with the opportunity to view news by practice area. Each practice area offers a selection of articles curated by [American Lawyer Media’s](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/american-lawyer-media) editorial team.
Through Law.com Contributor Network, it features views from important voices in the legal field. Viewers have the ability to access its award-winning content on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
Law.com app is also available for use on iPad and iPhone. It enables users to improve their reading experience by personalizing how the news is presented, and creating searches by practice areas, people, and firms for the news that matters to them..
Logistics Tech Outlook
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A Magazine to streamline logistics through technology integration. A global platform for discussion on how IT boost logistics services.
Decurate
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Decurate is a weekly magazine that provides content on design for its users. The magazine provides its users with ideas and processes on designs.
Decurate was founded in 2011 by Jordan Sitkin and Polo Valdovinos and is based in Santiago.. .
elink.io
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Simple, responsive, web pages for content curation in minutes.
Teletype
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Teletype is a publishing platform for creators. Every day thousands of thoughts, ideas and opinions are published on the platform.
Teletype allows anyone to easily start a blog and build an audience, hassle and cost-free. Minimalist UI and powerful tools relevant for a modern-day blog, including the ability to use custom domain name, make Teletype an exceptional choice for content creators.
Content discovery allows to find interesting blogs and creators to follow.. .
Astrology.com
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Astrology.com is a content provider featuring daily horoscopes, quizzes and other content.
DOGTV
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DOGTV is a TV channel that provides visual and auditory media content for dogs on multiple platforms.
hibooks
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Hibooks is an application company that offers audiobooks to help users pursue their passions. The company aims for users to maybe just go back to those days when they loved having stories told to them.
Maybe users simply want to make the most of their commute and free time, or just want to escape and go on an adventure.. .
list.ly
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Listly helps bloggers and publishers engage readers with continuously evolving viral lists. “For some reason our species is drawn to numbered lists” (Inbound Marketing by B Halligan and D Shah) Consequently 30% of all content on the web is based on list content.
This includes millions of blogs, brand websites, and publishers such as AOL, NY Times. Unfortunately these lists are created once and gets stale quick.
We call it the “List Rot”. These lists are also not social providing no interactivity to the consuming audience.
Listly allows bloggers, content marketers, and publishers create interactive list content that is embeddable on their own site, but can be easily syndicated on other websites thus driving increased distribution, engagement and profits.. .
Cureus
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An innovative, more efficient platform for doctors to publish and share research.
Apture
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Apture allows publishers and bloggers to link and incorporate several media items into a dynamic layer above their pages. Publishers have to embed a single line of Javascript code into their site and then sign into their Apture account.
By highlighting words or phrases Apture allows publishers to link, providing appropriate content to choose between. When the reader clicks a small window opens with related items selected by the publisher.
The reader can view the content be it text, video or photos. Readers access these items without leaving the original page..
OneTrueFan
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OneTrueFan is a service that enables users to see who else has viewed and shared the pages they read. Users earn points for engagement — visiting regularly, reading new content, sharing links and driving traffic — and can compete to be the biggest fan of a site.
Players can also earn badges for specific gameplay achievements, such as regularly being the first person in their social graph to find new pages. The service is distributed as both a web site “widget” and browser plugin.
More than 80% of any site’s traffic visits once a month or less. In most cases, this traffic results from search engines and social links and less than 24 hours later there is no recall of where the content was consumed.
These readers are essential negative value — they don’t remember the brand, they don’t click on ads and they don’t come back again. Only six to eight percent of a site’s traffic are “regulars”, defined as visiting at least once a week.
These readers drive much of the real value on a web site, regularly contributing comments, sharing content with friends and clicking on advertising. OneTrueFan enables web sites to develop deeper engagement with these regular reader, encouraging them to visit and share content even more often.
Post-launch, OneTrue fan will launch a dashboard, enabling web sites get a multi-dimensional view of their readers based upon frequency of visits, amount of content read, regularity of shares and traffic sent. Web site owners can use existing channels, such as Twitter and Facebook, to communicate with readers.
Svbtle
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Svbtle is publishing network that brings some of the best things from newspapers and magazines to a network of great people. They focus on the people, the writing, and the ideas.
Everything else is secondary. Svbtle’s goal is to make it easier and more natural for interesting people to write down their thoughts.
In the process, they also hope to help their members become better writers. To accomplish these goals, they provide benefits that aren’t usually associated with blogging, like copyediting and fact-checking, to all members, for free..
Sand Hill Group LLC
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SandHill.com is the business strategy destination for software firms, customers and investors, especially in cloud, mobile, Internet of Things and big data software. SandHill.com provides a wealth of unique, high-quality articles and reports with actionable advice and insights on software trends and products.
Along with interviews of software leaders and experts, SandHill’s content is contributed by top executives who share their personal or company’s experience and insights. SandHill.com was founded in 1997 and has grown with the software industry.
As it grew from a small cottage industry to a gigantic game-changing enabler in enterprise businesses, we’ve kept our readers informed through the changes from the old mainframe days to the client-server era and now to the future with cloud, mobile, big data and the Internet of Things.. .
Chronicle Books
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Chronicle Books is an independent publisher offering bestselling books, children’s books, personalized books & other specialty gifts. Chronicle Books is on of U.S A’s finest book sellers when it comes to books.
They have had several bestseller in the due course of time. They have also developed several iOS applications for the same purpose.
Chronicle Books was established in 1967 in San Francisco, California, USA.. .
SuperSummary
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SuperSummary publishes expert-written literature study guides for hundreds of books
Finest Content Writing
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Get top-quality customized content writing services from finestcontentwriting.
PC Gamer
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PC Gamer is the global authority on PC games.
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers is an independent publisher connecting people and ideas to create a world that works for all. They believe that to truly create a better world, the action is needed at all levels–individual, organizational, and societal.
At the individual level, their books help people align their lives with their values and with their aspirations for a better world. At the organizational level, our books promote progressive leadership and management practices, socially responsible approaches to business, and humane and effective organizations..
Post Planner
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Any social media tool can help you schedule posts. But we’re built for engagement! Post Planner makes it easy to FIND, PLAN, and POST content that is scientifically proven to increase social media engagement! Our Vision: A world where social media marketing is painless and profitable Our Mission: To help people get more engagement and reach on social media in less time.
How you ask? Good question. It all began four years ago when our founder was marketing his business on social media.
He realized it’s a lot of work and kind of painful. It was hard to find the right content that worked and took way too much time.
So he decided to solve the problem and here we are today. Post Planner was created for social media marketers by social media marketers.
Our App: Post Planner makes it easy for people to find and share amazing content consistently – to get predictable, measurable, and remarkable results with their social media posts on Facebook and Twitter. Just take a look: http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/513577/Campaigns/Pro_Plan/find-plan-post.gif Our Blog: Our blog teaches people how to improve their social media & content marketing via readable, actionable, entertaining content.
Our Community: Today, more than 200,000 social media marketers use Post Planner to find amazing content and boost engagement. Over 650,000 readers enjoy our Blog every month with over 25 contributors generating proven and actionable advice in every article.
Torque
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FastGlacier is a low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. It is a freeware Windows client for Amazon Glacier that enables users to upload their files to Amazon Glacier using their full bandwidth.
With FastGlacier users can also download their files from Amazon Glacier and manage the vaults with ease. FastGlacier supports high-speed multipart uploads with ability to pause and resume, client-side compression and encryption via simple and flexible rules, supports smart data retrieval with large files support, supports multipart downloads for fast and reliable data transfer, and much more.
FastGlacier is owned by NetSDK Software.. .
TriplePundit
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Triple Pundit, a Certified B-Corporation, is a new-media company for highly conscious business leaders. Triple Pundit has grown to become one of the world’s most well read websites on ethical, sustainable & profitable business with over 350,000 unique monthly readers.
Triple Pundit’s philosophy is based on the triple bottom line – People, Planet & Profit. The TBL argues that economy, environment and society are inseparably related and an understanding of all three is critical to long term profitability.
Triple Pundit’s Community is a diverse group of businesspeople, from social entrepreneurs to corporate executives, MBA students to consultants, each dedicated to using the power of business for good.. .
Versity Software
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Versity Software is a data archiving company that offers data management solutions for tiered storage environments and preservation.
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