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Summer International uses social media data to launch new beauty brands

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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. The company launched in 2018 along with Gushcloud International, an influencer marketing firm. It operates in the United States, South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia.

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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

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And it’s evident that proptech, unlike other industries, has lagged in utilizing social media to make sales. With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook. Does everyone want to be a landlord, or what?

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SoftBank Vision Fund 2 invests $160M in media localization provider Iyuno-SDI Group

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Iyuno-SDI Group , a provider of translated subtitles and other media localization services, announced today it has raised $160 million in funding from SoftBank Vision 2. Iyuno-SDI Group was formed after Iyuno Media Group completed its acquisition of SDI Media last month.

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Social media giants urged to tackle data-scraping privacy risks

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’s ICO, Canada’s OPC and Hong Kong’s OPCPD, has urged mainstream social media platforms to protect users’ public posts from scraping — warning they face a legal responsibility to do so in most markets. A joint statement signed by regulators at a dozen international privacy watchdogs, including the U.K.’s

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AI-powered media editing app Descript lands fresh cash from OpenAI

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” Descript was created as a spin-off of Mason’s audio-guide business Detour, which Bose acquired in 2018. Around the same time, individual creators stopped respecting the boundaries between media; YouTubers started podcasts, podcasters flocked to TikTok and so on.

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GoStudent acquires UK’s Seneca Learning and Spain’s Tus Media Group

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s Seneca Learning and Spain-based Tus Media Group in a move which extends its reach into areas not previously touched by the Austrian unicorn. Seneca provides algorithmic learning content while Tus Media is an open tutoring marketplace. Tus Media was also privately owned, with unspecified backing from Barcelona-based investor Redarbor.

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Elon Musk brings Alex Jones and Infowars back on X after user poll

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Elon Musk has restored the X accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his media site Infowars. The X accounts of Jones and Infowars were “permanently banned” from Twitter by the previous management in 2018 for posting abusive content and violating the platform’s rules.

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