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Summer International uses social media data to launch new beauty brands

TechCrunch

If you follow #beautytok, #beautytube or any beauty content on social media platforms, you know that popular product trends are hard to keep up with. NYX was acquired by L’Oreal in 2014 for about $500 million. Summer International uses social media data to launch new beauty brands by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch.

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NBA All-Star Chris Paul joins digital media startup Greenfly’s growth round

TechCrunch

Greenfly’s latest funding round has a new face: Phoenix Suns point guard Chris Paul joined as a strategic investor and partner in the company, which developed digital media flow management software. He considers Greenfly “instant access to a media gallery” that he can share on his social media accounts.

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

TechCrunch

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. Yet, traditional media remained the undisputed king of communication, and the era of professional blogs (including the one you’re reading) was still a distant dream.

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How China’s synthetic media startup Surreal nabs funding in 3 months

TechCrunch

The experience convinced Xu that synthetic media would become mainstream because the tool could significantly “lower the cost of content production,” Xu said in an interview from Surreal’s 12-person office in Shenzhen. “Fundamentally, I think [synthetic media] provides a disruptive infrastructure.

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Hootsuite lays off nearly a third of its workforce as CEO tries to ‘refocus’

TechCrunch

Social media marketing firm Hootsuite says it has slashed its workforce by 30%. The social media firm has raised more than $300 million in capital to date, per PitchBook , and its backers include Fidelity and Accel, the Palo Alto–based VC. The company offered no specifics on what exactly is changing about the business.

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A Look At Reddit’s Biggest Shareholders Ahead Of Its IPO

Crunchbase News

Its IPO is the first from a social media company since Pinterest ’s debut in 2019. Within 18 months of Reddit’s founding, media company Advance Publications , owner of magazine publisher Condé Nast among other properties, acquired the startup for $10 million. Reddit’s IPO will be closely watched for a number of reasons.

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Strata Hadoop World 2014: Watch Live Streaming Here

CTOvision

If you could not make it to Strata-Hadoop World 2014 in NYC you can still watch streaming video of the keynotes. To do that visit our Hadoop World video streaming page here: https://ctovision.com/strata-hadoop-world-2014-watch-live-streaming-here/. 8:45am–8:55am Thursday, 10/16/2014. 8:55am–9:10am Thursday, 10/16/2014.

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