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Bump Now Lets You Swap App Recommendations With A Tap
You can tell a lot about a person from their mobile app library. Are they avid Doodle Jumpers, or do they prefer to challenge their wits with a few rounds of Civilization? Do they stretch their vocal...
View Article(Founder Stories) Fred Wilson Explains Why He Wouldn't Invest In Groupon Or...
Few VCs have a hotter hand right now than Fred Wilson. His firm, Union Square Ventures, is an investor in Twitter, Zynga, Foursquare, Tumblr, Etsy, Clickable, and more . In this episode of Founder...
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Bump Founder Talks Rapid Growth, Push Notifications
The two-year trajectory of Bump Technologies, the designers of the app that makes it easy to swap contact information, music, and other data between mobile devices,is a somewhat interesting case study...
View ArticleThe P2P Evolution
Editor’s note: Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah....
View ArticleMatias Duarte On iOS Vs. Android Looks: “Why Are Sicilians More Handsome Than...
Today during our Mobile First CrunchUp in Palo Alto, CA, our own Jason Kincaid led a panel focused on designing the mobile experience. On the panel were Bump’s Jake Mintz, Soundtracking’s Steve Jang,...
View Article(Founder Stories) Bump’s David Lieb On Getting To 60 Million Downloads
If you find traditional methods of exchanging contact information a bit lacking, Bump offers an updated alternative. Bump is an app that allows users to automatically exchange contact...
View Article(Founder Stories) Bump’s David Lieb: “We Want To Build That New UI Layer For...
Seeking a way to reduce friction while exchanging contact information, David Lieb and his two co-founders launched Bump – a service that allows users to swap everything from calendar events to music...
View Article(Founder Stories) Bump’s David Lieb: “Stop Thinking & Just Go Build It”
Bump co-founder, David Lieb launched an app that’s secured roughly $20 million in funding and has been downloaded approximately 60-million times. In his final Founder Stories interview with host Chris...
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Death To Feature Creep! Bump 3.0 Dumps All But Contacts and Photo Sharing
more, More, MORE. STOP! Rather than cram more features into Bump 3.0, the team behind the 75 million-installs mobile app combed the data and brushed off all the features no one used. Now, instead of...
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Bump Pay Lets You PayPal Someone With A Tap, But Only In-Person
Now it’s as easy as a fist-pound to pay a friend back for dinner, drinks, or a cab. Bump, the popular contact sharing app developer, today releases a new standalone iOS app called Bump Pay that lets...
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Updated: Bump’s Mini-Pivot: Photo-Sharing From Your Phone By Bumping Your...
Bump, the popular mobile sharing app that lets users exchange photos and information by bumping their smartphones together, is getting in touch with a new device: the computer keyboard. And it appears...
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Bump’s New App Flock Creates Shared Photo Albums With Friends Without...
Photos save our memories, yet fumbling to upload them can cut those moments short. But Flock lets you snap and forget, and then later collects photos from you and friends you were with into privately...
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Buy Me A Pie! Gets Bump Support — iOS Users Can Now Bash Phones Together To...
“Don’t forget to make a list.” “I have done!” “Well, I’ve started one too.” Bashes smartphones together. Buy Me A Pie!, the cloud-powered grocery list maker for iOS, has released a nifty – and,...
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Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think
Editor’s Note: David Lieb is co-founder and CEO of Bump, creators of the popular app that lets people share contact information, photos, and other content by bumping their phones together. Bump has...
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Bump Mobile Contact Sharing App Acquired By Google, Will Stay Alive For Now
After raising nearly $20 million and becoming one of the most downloaded mobile apps but failing to find real revenue, Bump Technologies has been acquired by Google. Its namesake app Bump lets you...
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Filesharing App Airlike Is Bump Without The Clashing Of Fists
This is a pretty cool new iOS app from Russia’s Displair, maker of the Minority Report-styled Multi-Touch “air” display. Similar to Google-acquired Bump, Airlike uses an iPhone’s various sensors in...
View ArticleGoogle To Close Bump And Flock, Its Recently Acquired File Sharing Apps
Bump and Flock, the file sharing apps Google acquired last fall, will be shut down by the end of this month. Both apps will stop working and be removed from Google Play and the App Store on January 31,...
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Windows Phone Is An Ex-Platform
Microsoft announced its Q2 2016 results yesterday, reporting strong performance for its cloud business and leading to a stock bump in the wake of the news. Its Surface tablet hardware business also...
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Bump is a peer-to-peer marketplace for streetwear
As the streetwear and sneaker industry continues to explode in popularity we’re seeing more and more startups popping up to service the industry, all from slightly different angles. Meet Bump, a...
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Streetwear marketplace Bump raises $7.5M
Bump, the Y Combinator-backed marketplace for streetwear, is announcing that it has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. Bump’s Jack Ryder told me that even before starting the company, he and his...
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