Mobile GIF platform Tenor is out with the list of its top 5 gifts this year. The company's co-founder and CEO David McIntosh explains what they say about sentiment in 2017.
The top five GIFs of 2017 are the guy blinking, baby crying, Jonah Hill's "yay," Shaq laughing, and Obama's "Oh yeah." McIntosh says negative emotion searches went up 31 percent in 2017. Meanwhile, positive emotions decreased 18 percent.
"We can get a great sense of how people are actually thinking and feeling," says McIntosh. Though GIF searches were more negative overall, searches for "laughing" nearly doubled since 2017.
Maisie Williams told Cheddar about her new artistic collaboration app 'Daisie' and what it was like to grow up on the set of 'Game of Thrones.'
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Tracy Dubb, Co-Founder and partner at M3 Ventures, spoke with Cheddar about how her investment firm is breaking the mold and investing in everything from healthy-lifestyle initiatives to Instagram stars.
The entertainment company has raised $4.5 million in new funding. CEO Andy Heyward said the first order of business is launching a new brand called "Rainbow Rangers", which debuts on Nickelodeon in November and is meant to empower young girls.
The New York Times recently created a popular infographic showing the similarities between so many so-called "songs of the summer," going back to the 80s. The story's editor, Sahil Chinoy, told Cheddar how data can be used to visualize music.
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Catherine Collinson of the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies told Cheddar the problem is not that millennials aren't saving - it's that they aren't planning for how much money they will need.
It's been almost a year since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, and the island wants the public to know it's made real progress in rebuilding. Mark Ellwood of Conde Nast Traveler is just back from a trip to the territory and says that the comeback is real.
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Brandless, the company that offers hundreds of products for three bucks apiece on its website, believes better doesn't have to cost more. CEO Tina Sharkey says the company can eliminate efficiencies to keep costs for the consumer down.
