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| 23.10.2025 | Top 5 Virtual Phone Number Providers For SMS Verification in 2025 | Share
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In 2025, the way we manage online access and digital privacy has fundamentally changed. From signing up for Gmail to verifying your Telegram or Snapchat account, you’re now expected to link a phone number to al... |
| 01.06.2021 | 7 best alternatives to Google Hangouts | Image: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic
As Google continues its quest to replace classic Hangouts and moves features and functions to other apps, some app transitions are apparent. Need video conferencing? Use Meet. Need individual or group discuss... |
| 05.08.2019 | Robocall Spammers Are Rampant, and the Best Solutions Are Drastic | Chances are strong that you didn't pick up your phone the last time it rang, and you won't bother to pick up the next call, either. That's because nearly half of all phone calls made in the US are from scammers.
In 2019, scam calls will mak... |
| 02.01.2019 | Tech.co’s Predictions for the Future of Tech in 2019 | Silicon Valley’s version of the future has always drawn from the genre of science fiction. Granted, the pessimists among us are more likely to compare it to a cyberpunk dystopia than to a flying-car-packed retrofuture utopia, while anyone f... |
| 14.12.2018 | These were the most common types of robocalls in 2018 | Originally Published by:
Taylor Swift used facial recognition tech at an LA concert to track creeps The stupidest smartphone design trend of 2019 is already here Vitaminwater will pay you $100,000 if you give up your smartphone for a full y... |
| 13.12.2018 | Robocalls are out of control, and these were the most common types in 2018 | People seem to be actually answering their phones less and less these days, also using them to make fewer calls when texting and social network messaging works just fine and is even quicker in many cases. Arguably helping that trend along i... |
| 10.04.2018 | Booking.com boasts more listings than Airbnb (and its AI bot is rocking) | Travel giant Booking.com says with 5 million “reported listings” it now tops Airbnb’s reported 4.5 million.
Booking.com also says the number of homes, apartments, and places it lists is 27 percent higher than last year. The announcement is ... |
| 10.04.2018 | Booking.com boasts more listings than Airbnb (and its AI bot is rocking) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Travel giant Booking.com says with 5 million “rep... |
| 17.09.2017 | Proxytel wants to help business owners mask their phone numbers | Every once in a while, an app comes along aiming to provide users with disposable number. Shuffle emerged a couple of years go do this; Burner has existed even longer.
Now, software engineers Chakshu Ahuja and Siddhant Sanyam think they’e c... |
| 21.02.2017 | This chatbot helps Airbnb hosts answer guests’ questions faster than ever before | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Burner has launched another chatbot to demonstrate the potential of its mobile application and service. With Hostbot, hosts of short-te... |
| 17.01.2017 | Burner shuns telemarketers and robocalls with Nomorobo partnership | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Burner has formed a partnership with Nomorobo in a move that aims to clean up calls and texts received through its disposable phone num... |
| 19.07.2016 | Inside story of how Ghostbot handles texting creepers | Last month, in collaboration with the folks behind the fantastic Burner app, my company Voxable launched our latest chatbot project, Ghostbot for Burner. Ghostbot runs on top of Burner’s “open” phone numbers as an agent inside your text mes... |
| 22.06.2016 | Users Can Now Easily Ghost Their Bad Date With Burner’s New Bot | Lauren Keating, Tech Times 22 June 2016, 07:06 am
Thanks to the world of online dating, it's easier than ever to download an app, get matched, start texting and meet up. But after a few dates, the user may realize this is not the person for... |
| 21.06.2016 | Burner, a service that generates temporary phone numbers, makes it easier to ghost conversations | If you’ve ever wanted a text message conversation to simply go away, but still wanted to do it gracefully, there’s a new bot that will help do that for you.
Burner, which helps users create temporary phone numbers for various purposes, is t... |
| 21.06.2016 | This chatbot lets you ‘ghost’ that creepy person you met at a bar | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Have you ever had an encounter with someone at a bar or party who insisted on getting your phone number? Do you dread receiving the fol... |
| 28.12.2015 | 15 interesting startups to watch in 2016 | As we usher in another year, we brace for the next wave of innovation, disruption, consolidation, and dissolution. What will be the next big thing that everyone talks about? I’ve been asking around and looking at companies, trends, and what... |
| 28.12.2015 | 15 interesting startups to watch in 2016 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
As we usher in another year, we brace for the next wave of innovation, disruption, consolidation, and dissolution. What will be the nex... |
| 24.11.2015 | Burner’s new developer tool lets you control your smart home by text | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
More than a month after Burner launched its native integrations with Evernote, Slack, Dropbox, and SoundCloud, the provider of disposab... |
| 24.11.2015 | Burner’s new developer tool lets you control your smart home by text | More than a month after Burner launched its native integrations with Evernote, Slack, Dropbox, and SoundCloud, the provider of disposable phone numbers is opening itself up to developers. The company has released a way for third-parties to ... |
| 08.10.2015 | Burner integrates its disposable phone numbers with Evernote, Slack, Dropbox, and SoundCloud | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With all the innovation taking place over the past few years and the shift from desktop to mobile-first, one thing has (hopefully) rema... |
| 08.10.2015 | Burner Gets Business-Ready With Auto-Renewing Lines, Connections To Slack, Dropbox, Evernote & More | Burner, the app that lets you create disposable phone numbers you can use for a variety of purposes including online ads, while traveling, for business projects, dating profiles, and more, has been, until now, a fairly utilitarian sort of m... |
| 15.05.2015 | Shuffle’s New iPhone App Lets You Create Disposable Phone Numbers…And Emails, Too | A new mobile app called Shuffle has launched a simple utility that lets you create additional, disposable phone numbers you can use to call or text as well as receive voicemail through, right from your iPhone. The app is a competitor to lon... |
| 13.05.2015 | 25 hot Los Angeles startups you need to watch | Los Angeles may be a few hundred miles south of Silicon Valley, but it’s a hub brimming with up-and-coming tech startups.
We’ve compiled a list of 25 of the hottest startups in the Los Angeles area. To do so, we spoke with investors, employ... |
| 10.03.2015 | Why Are There So Few Black Investors? | Richard Kerby Contributor
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| 15.01.2015 | Unlisted Publishing And The Burner Account: Responses To Online Surveillance? | One of the consolations of spending far too much time online is that you get to witness the birth of new ideas and new terms, along with new uses of existing ones. On Medium, Chris Messina points out two recent examples of creative re-purpo... |
| 02.06.2014 | Reddit, Imgur, DuckDuckGo, BoingBoing And More Will Participate In Anti-NSA Protests This Week | A number of websites for Internet services, businesses and even several nonprofits, including Amnesty International, Greenpeace, MoveOn.org, and others, will participate in a series of online anti-NSA protests this week. The websites, which... |
| 29.09.2013 | Burner Raises $2M in Funding | Burner, a Los Angeles, CA-based provider of an app that gives consumers control of their personal data, raised $2m in funding.
The round was led by Founder Collective and Venrock, with participation from 500 Startups, David Cohen and TenOne... |
| 27.09.2013 | Funding Roundup - week ending 9/27/13 | Frankly, Gyft, Academia.edu, LeadPages, VitaPortal, Unsilo, LoveLive, BetterCloud, Moxtra, VIPorbit
Seed Stage
Location-based photo and video discovery platform Tapastreet closed a $500,000 seed round of funding comes from Kernel Capital an... |
| 26.09.2013 | Disposable Phone Number App Burner Grabs $2 Million In Seed Funding | Before the world was informed of the massive and invasive government spying programs run by the NSA and other countries, a mobile app called Burner appeared on the scene offering users disposable phone numbers which they could use to protec... |
| 26.09.2013 | Burner gets $2M to let you use and destroy phone numbers on the fly | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Please don’t give that sketchy dude at the bar your number — there are apps for that. Burner is one of them, and it got $2 million for ... |
| 26.09.2013 |
Burner Gets $2M
| Burner, the Los Angeles startup which lets users create one-time, "burnable" phone numbers for temporary use, has raised $2M in a seed funding, the company said today. The funding came from Founder Collective and Venrock, as well ... |
| 30.06.2013 | The Rise Of The Ephemeralnet | In the aftermath of the dot-com crash, a new era for the web began to take hold – a turning point whose seismic shift was hyped under the moniker “Web 2.0.” The concept referred to the web becoming a platform, a home for services whose popu... |
| 23.06.2013 | If The Government Can Access Our Facebook Data, What Happens When We Have Computers On Our Faces? | Wearables will follow a similar path as the smartphone market, Forrester analysts predicted in April 2012. “Wearables will move mainstream,” they said.
But will they?
Do you believe this?
Do I?
Maybe?
From fitness trackers to smartwatches t... |
| 03.05.2013 | Disposable phone numbers from your smartphone | (MoneyWatch) Why aren't there temporary, disposable e-mail addresses for phone numbers? They exist for e-mail.
After all, there are all sorts of situations in which it would be great to have a temporary phone number that you use just once, ... |
| 10.04.2013 | Burner, The One-Click Disposable Phone Number App, Comes To Android | Sometimes you just need a temporary, disposable phone number. Why? Maybe you’re not too sure about that dude you just met, but you want to give him a chance. Maybe you don’t want weirdos from Craigslist calling you once your couch is gone. ... |
| 10.04.2013 | Get a disposable number for Android with the new Burner app | reader comments 34 with 30 posters participating
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| 10.04.2013 | Burner, the completely legit disposable phone number app, comes to Android | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s easy to make fun of Burner, the disposable phone number app for iOS (and now Android).
The app’s premise — “disposable phone numbe... |
| 13.03.2013 | When Is It More Than Inspiration? Burner CEO Calls Out Hushed As An “Obvious Clone” | Sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint what’s a clone, what’s iterative and what’s just inspiration. This is but one example. Greg Cohn, the CEO of Burner, an iPhone application offering disposable phone numbers that raised seed funding from 500 S... |
| 23.01.2013 | Hushed App Takes On Burner By Bringing Disposable Phone Numbers To Over 40 Countries Worldwide | The ability to create virtual, disposable phone numbers is paving the way for a new wave of startups, from those attacking the BYOD (bring-your-own-device) trend at work like SendHub, to apps like Burner for iOS, which offers the privacy of... |
| 18.10.2012 |
Burner Lands Angel Round
| Ad Hoc Labs, the developer behind the Burner mobile app, has just scored a round of angel funding. Size of the round was not disclosed. Burner is a mobile app which allows users to create disposable phone numbers, which they can hand out to... |
| 18.10.2012 | Burner App Raises Angel Round, Prepares To Become The Passbook For Mobile Privacy | Startup Ad Hoc Labs, creators of temporary phone number generator app Burner, today announced a new investment round of undisclosed quantity that includes some notable Silicon Valley angels like Dave McClure’s 500 Startups, David Cohen, Kev... |
| 18.10.2012 | Burner Raises Angel Funding | Ad Hoc Labs, Inc., the Los Angeles, CA-based creator of Burner, an iPhone app that that enables users to obtain temporary, disposable numbers for voice and SMS communication, has raised an angel funding of undisclosed amount.
Backers includ... |
| 08.08.2012 | Burner wants to help you temporarily obfuscate your phone number | reader comments 36 with 29 posters participating, including story author
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| - | Robocalls are out of control, and these were the most common types in 2018 | People seem to be actually answering their phones less and less these days, also using them to make fewer calls when texting and social network messaging works just fine and is even quicker in many cases. Arguably helping that trend along i... |
