| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.07.2014 | Apple bought Swell for $30 million: Plans to conquer curated content streaming? | Vamien McKalin, Tech Times 31 July 2014, 09:07 am
Apple has been on a shopping spree as of late as the company makes moves to bolster itself against increased competition. The latest acquisition comes in the form of a startup called Swell, ... |
| 28.07.2014 | Apple said to be buying Google-backed Swell for $30M | Apple is reported to be buying Google-backed podcast app Swell. The iPhone and iPad manufacturer is said to be spending $30 million to buy the app, shutting it down in the process.
Swell is an iOS app that plays you a continuous stream of p... |
| 27.04.2014 | My Weekly TechCrunch Habit Ends | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor at Haystack. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Over the past three years, every weekend, I sit down with my lap... |
| 20.04.2014 | In Digital Health, Does Nike Have A Path To Victory After Fuelband? | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor at Haystack. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
This past week, conflicting reports about Nike leaked, suggestin... |
| 13.04.2014 | UberRUSH Raises Three Critical Questions For The Future Of Mobile On-Demand Services | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor at Haystack. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Last week, my column discussed how on-demand mobile services — T... |
| 06.04.2014 | Tap Your Phone, Get Stuff (Including Funding) | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor at Haystack. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Earlier this week, Steve Schlafman, an investor with RRE in New ... |
| 30.03.2014 | Microsoft Office, Now On iOS, Highlights A Powerful Lesson For Incumbents | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor at Haystack. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Finally, Microsoft’s flagship Office suite (Excel, PPT, Word) is... |
| 23.03.2014 | Mobile Platforms, Smartwatches, And Golden Handcuffs | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor at Haystack. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil
Ask three different smart, knowledgeable people in tech about the... |
| 16.03.2014 | Looking In The Rearview Mirror For Mobile App Inspiration | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil
Every Sunday, I try to write something about mobile that’s relevant today or ... |
| 09.03.2014 | How Secret May Uncover A New Secret To Mobile Growth | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil
Greetings from a rainy (but always fun) Austin, TX. As is the case leading up... |
| 02.03.2014 | The WhatsApp Effect | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil
It’s no secret that many entrepreneurs and investors are seduced by the spect... |
| 23.02.2014 | The WhatsApp Story Challenges Some Of The Valley’s Conventional Wisdom | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil
Silicon Valley and the tech world at large are filled with a variety of conve... |
| 16.02.2014 | An iPhone Loyalist’s First Few Weeks With Android | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil
A year ago, I wrote a post titled “Silicon Valley Slowly Awakens To Android.”... |
| 09.02.2014 | How CodePath Trains Developers To Build In A Mobile World | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Late in 2013, I stumbled upon two bootstrapped entrepreneurs with deep backg... |
| 02.02.2014 | Unpacking Facebook’s Mobile Strategy: Paper, All The Mobile News That’s Fit To Print | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
In the world of mobile apps, the biggest news from this week was the announc... |
| 26.01.2014 | Enterprise Mobility: Devices, Security, Design, And Distribution | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Every Sunday for this column, I write on something related to mobile. To dat... |
| 19.01.2014 | Revisiting Mobile Identity, TouchID And Beyond | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
About three years ago, Rebekah Cox, an early product designer at Facebook an... |
| 12.01.2014 | The Automobile As A Consumer Mobile Frontier | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
I’ve never been to CES before, but it’s hard to escape the flurry of noisy t... |
| 05.01.2014 | A Passive Yet Potentially Aggressive Mobile App Strategy | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Yes, we all know…If you’re reading TechCrunch, there’s a great chance we all... |
| 29.12.2013 | How Snapchat Became The Breakout Consumer Product Of 2013 | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Last year, as 2012 ended, I scanned the early-stage startup landscape and tr... |
| 22.12.2013 | For Holiday Shopping, Mobile Apps Bring Out My Inner Grinch | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Every week for this column, I write about something related to mobile techno... |
| 15.12.2013 | The Shifting Ways In Which We’ll Interact With Mobile Apps | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
‘Tis the season to reorganize the apps on my iPhone. With iOS 7 and the shif... |
| 08.12.2013 | On Mobile, The Location Arrow May Finally Be Pointed In The Right Direction | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
From time to time on Twitter, I’ll unknowingly dip my toes into contested wa... |
| 01.12.2013 | A Tweet About Mobile That Took On A Life Of Its Own | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
I’ve been fascinated with mobile startups like Uber and Snapchat, among othe... |
| 24.11.2013 | QuizUp’s Mobile Play May Be Anything But A Trivial Pursuit | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He writes at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
About every three months or so, the early adopter tech crowd fixates on a n... |
| 17.11.2013 | Ephemerality Aside, Snapchat Sends Its First Permanent Message | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He writes at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
In many parts of Silicon Valley and the consumer technology world, the zeit... |
| 10.11.2013 | How Mobile Alters Traditional Network Effects In Marketplaces | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil. (A special thanks to Simon Rothman, a partner at Greylock and a noted expert... |
| 03.11.2013 | App Indexing, Predictive Services, And Unlocking Mobile Distribution | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
There is a “perfect storm” brewing in consumer mobile: Developers, companies... |
| 27.10.2013 | Fancy Hands Enhances Mobile Search In Novel Ways | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
This weekly column has been focused on mobile lately and will likely stay th... |
| 20.10.2013 | Rethinking The Seductiveness Of Mobile-First | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
For the past few months, my weekly column here has been focused on some aspe... |
| 13.10.2013 | The Precise Art Of Mobile Push Notifications | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor – as a disclaimer for this post, he is an advisor to one of the companies mentioned here, Refresh. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him ... |
| 06.10.2013 | The Future Of Mobile Taps And On-Demand Services | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor – as a disclaimer for this post, he is an investor in one of the companies mentioned here, Instacart. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow h... |
| 29.09.2013 | The Harsh Realities Surrounding Mobile App Investing | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Rohit Sharma from True Ventures likes to say: “Mobile is the only under-hype... |
| 22.09.2013 | Mobile Apps, Card Interfaces, And Our Opposable Thumbs | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
This is a post about “cards” as an interface in mobile apps. I am not a desi... |
| 15.09.2013 | For Mobile Developers, iOS 7 Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Leading up to last week’s Apple event and the unveiling of the iPhone 5s, th... |
| 08.09.2013 | The Scale, Competitiveness, And Industrial Strategies In Mobile Computing | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
I will admit upfront – I am finding it hard to keep up with all the major mo... |
| 25.08.2013 | A Story About Threading The Needle On Mobile | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. As a disclaimer, he’s an employee of and a early-advisor to Swell, which is mentioned in this post. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
As some of you may know, I’ve been lucky ... |
| 18.07.2013 | Funding Daily: 'Cereal' entrepreneurs | 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!
What do serial entrepreneurs and breakfast cereal... |
| 18.07.2013 | Swell Raises $5.4M in Series A Funding | Swell, a San Francisco, CA-based new mobile listening experience for news and information that learns what users like as they listen, raised $5.4m in Series A funding.
The round was led by DFJ, with participation from Google Ventures, Inter... |
| 18.07.2013 | Personalized News Radio App Swell Raises $5.4M | Swell, the app that brings a Pandora-like experience to news and talk radio content, is announcing that it has raised $5.4 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, with participation from Google Ventures, I... |
| 18.07.2013 | Swell raises $5.4M to 'reinvent news radio' around your preferences | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Swell wants to expand your mind.
Today the startup “reinventing news radio” closed a $5.4 million round of funding, led by elite firm D... |
| 03.07.2013 | Founder Stories: Swell’s Ram Ramkumar On Transitioning From CTO To CEO | For today’s Founder Stories, I met with Ram Ramkumar, co-founder and new CEO of Concept.io, which last week launched Swell, an adaptive mobile app that streams audio news content.
“The most challenging part about being a CEO is creating a s... |
| 27.06.2013 | Swell Launches A Personalized App For News Radio Listening | Swell, a smartphone app launching today, is quickly becoming my favorite way to listen to spoken-word content.
There are other apps focusing on that kind of content — for example, when we wrote about Stitcher’s growth last year, we said it ... |
