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Big Cabal Media, parent company of TechCabal and Zikoko, raises $2.3M seed funding

TechCrunch

For years, tech publications run by local digital media startups have worked hard behind the scenes in placing African startups at the faces of global investors, shaping the narrative of African tech and its build-up to an inflection point last year. The Big Cabal Media team.

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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

TechCrunch

WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg at TechCrunch Disrupt 2014. Automattic focused on media at a time when that industry was being demolished by the internet. billion valuation.

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Here’s why CNET co-founder Halsey Minor is bullish on NFTs

TechCrunch

One of the founders of CNET, Minor entered tech media at a time when the closest thing most of us had to the web was a spider spinning cobwebs on an old NES. Since his initial foray into media, Minor has taken to cryptocurrency and blockchain in a big way. Halsey Minor has lived many lives. Everything I did was to build credibility.

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Tiger Global is earning its stripes in Africa

TechCrunch

However, Tiger Global limited its activity in Africa from 2009 to 2014. Tiger Global’s earliest portfolio investments on the continent were in consumer internet companies. This crop of consumer internet startups targeted industries across media and services such as jobs, commerce and travel.

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Why (and how) China is tying social-media behavior to credit scores

The Parallax

I don’t see the influence and gamification of social media as a Chinese problem, but an international problem.”. But depending on how successful China’s social-credit system is with its more than 730 million Internet users , other countries and social networks might look to it as a model for how to keep consumers’ online behavior in check.

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River, the latest venture from Wander founder Jeremy Fisher, launches with $10.4 million in funding

TechCrunch

River is meant to rethink the way we consume content across the internet. The app pulls stories and content from across the entire internet, including from publishers, Twitter and other social media, etc. adults get their news either “often” or “sometimes” from social media.

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KakaoEntertainment subsidiary acquires fantasy fiction platform Wuxiaworld

TechCrunch

based storytelling platform acquisitions , Radish and Tapas Media. Tapas Media aims to turn digital comics into the next big entertainment franchise. South Korea’s two largest internet giants Kakao and Naver compete in the storytelling platform market. Serial fiction app Radish acquired by Kakao Entertainment for $440M.

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