TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Raena was founded in 2019 to create personal care brands with top social media influencers. Last year, the company decided to focus on those sellers, and pivoted to social commerce. million seed round announced in July 2019. Image Credits: Raena. Its last funding announcement was a $1.82 Raena raises $1.82

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Descript also now provides new video transitions and animations and various templates, including layouts, titles sequences and social clips, along with the ability to create custom project templates. ” AI-powered media editing app Descript lands fresh cash from OpenAI by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

billion that the outfit put to work through the first vehicle of its type in 2019. 10 years of fintech failures: 5 innovations that didn’t live up to the hype Image Credits: Jeffrey Coolidge (opens in a new window) / Getty Images The tech industry (and the media that covers it) thrives on hype cycles. billion , up from the $1.3

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

The global social market is rapidly growing. million online social sellers in Egypt alone, the Egyptian social e-commerce market is forecast to be worth more than $14.8 One of its players, Taager , is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics. With over 1.25 billion by 2024.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

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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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users. The app doesn’t run ads.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In the summer of 2019, Timilehin Ajiboye became intrigued with the idea of building a travel app after conversations with a circle of friends. And while social media, growing exponentially over the past decade, has changed the way we communicate and connect, it has also changed how we travel. Social media and travel.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 21, 2024

Its IPO is the first from a social media company since Pinterest ’s debut in 2019. Media company Advance Publications , owner of magazine publisher Condé Nast among other properties, remains the largest shareholder in Reddit, with a 30.1% Reddit’s IPO will be closely watched for a number of reasons.

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Xebia

APRIL 25, 2023

Even due to social media, all organisations are operating with an open kitchen nowadays. Consumers below 25 years of age have 35% preference for contact through social media. It seems quite logical to offer customer support through Whatsapp, chat or social media. Did a piece of food fall on the floor?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Substack didn’t invent the paid newsletter, but the startup’s early success with the model is enticing previous backers to more than double down on the media startup. That we’re seeing a16z pour more capital into what we could call the alt-media space is not a surprise. You can detect the theme. million at that date.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

At the core of Virgio is the tech foundation, which is always listening to evolving trends on social media platforms and predicting the demand for each trend. “Traditionally, the fashion industry has operated on depth and discount models,” said Nagaram, founder and chief executive of Virgio, in a statement. “At

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Modern CTO

MAY 9, 2024

Produced by ProSeries Media. I am the co-author, with Marcus Buckingham, of NINE LIES ABOUT WORK: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World (Harvard Business Review Press, April 2019)—which was selected as the best management book of 2019 by Strategy + Business and one of Amazon’s best business and leadership books of 2019.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 19, 2024

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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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 27, 2019

Winners of the Strata Data Awards 2019. Watch " Winners of the Strata Data Awards 2019.". Likewar: How social media is changing the world and how the world is changing social media. Watch " The enterprise data cloud.". Forecasting uncertainty at Airbnb.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This can be used across industries and for mobile apps like games and social media, but also for the next generation of digital-first industries as more mobile and IoT devices are being used as point-of-sale systems,” Eric Futoran, CEO of Embrace, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Substack , the five-year-old newsletter platform that has aggressively positioned itself as a disruptive force in media, has abandoned efforts to raise a Series C round, the New York Times is reporting today. million Series A round led by a16z in 2019. It had earlier raised a $15.3 ” Time will tell.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The company’s last funding announcement was a $50 million Series A in April 2019. SiCepat focuses in particular on e-commerce and social commerce, or people who sell goods through their social media networks. ” SiCepat claims to be profitable already and that it was able to fulfill more than 1.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Trufan , a startup selling tools helping marketers analyze their social followings and collect audience data, announced today that it has raised a $2.3 First, it acquired the SocialRank product and business in 2019, allowing it to offer capabilities like showing brands their most valuable social media followers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Talkshoplive CEO Bryan Moore said he founded the company with his sister Tina in 2018, after he led social media efforts at Twentieth Television (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox) and CBS Television. Live commerce is today where social media was 15 years ago.

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CIO

MAY 1, 2024

Dopo che le storie sono state derise sui social media, Gannett ha deciso di sospendere l’uso di LedeAI in tutte le edizioni locali che utilizzavano il servizio. Quando ha rilasciato Tay, un chatbot AI, sulla piattaforma di social media, l’azienda lo ha descritto come un esperimento di “comprensione conversazionale”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Deb previously co-founded EmPower, a firm that provided tools for social media research and media monitoring, while Malhotra started his own company, Social Lair, to build social media capabilities for large enterprises.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 17, 2020

Every year, people continue to spend more time on social media. In 2019, the average person spent 2 hours and 23 minutes on social media every day. If you’re selling any type of product or service, you need to know how to run a social media campaign if you want to get your brand in front of your customers.

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The Hustle

JANUARY 11, 2024

After more than a century of selling reusable thermoses to pilots and workmen, the brand’s 40-ounce, $45 Quencher tumbler took off with a new group of fans: women on social media. Stanley’s revenue skyrocketed from $73m in 2019 to $194m in 2021. Last year, the brand’s sales topped an estimated $750m.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Voila , a startup building infrastructure for social commerce, is bringing concepts from China’s e-commerce market to the U.S. But often, their followers who want to buy the item in question have to leave the social media app and go to Google to search for the product. Image Credits: Voila. Image Credits: Voila.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The media and entertainment sector saw quite a few changes with respect to content development, aggregation, and delivery as major players in the business adopted new strategies and agile approaches to leverage the changing consumer demands. hours of viewing time spent on OTT video content as compared to the global average of 6.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Discord’s doubling in corporate value comes as the persistent, inept, American response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate the adoption and growth of businesses creating virtual social networking opportunities. Those opportunities are apparent in Discord’s explosive growth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Moore previously led social media efforts at Twentieth Television (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox) and CBS Television, and he said he was inspired to launch Talkshoplive by the rise of livestreamed shopping experiences in China. CEO Bryan Moore founded the company with his sister Tina in 2018.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 24, 2019

2019 for me was a year of being more self-aware, cultivating stillness, paying more attention to the changing landscape within the self, mapping my internal world, reassessing my motivations and aligning my external world accordingly (inside-out). Social Media for Better Leadership and Learning. ” —Carlton Fisk.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

The app generates a QR code that shows your professional info, including social media links, as soon as someone scans it, even if they don’t have the app installed. While Blinq worked between iPhone users, it was only in late 2019 that most Androids could scan them natively, Webb adds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It was relaunched in 2019 in the pet wellness area. “We Indeed, the global pet supplement market was valued at nearly $600 million in 2019 and poised to top $820 million by 2027. It will also help to build up its community of pet parents on social media.

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BrainStation Technology

MAY 24, 2019

Collision 2019 has come and gone, and the massive tech conference did not disappoint, with thousands of attendees, exhibitors, and speakers from some of the largest and most innovative companies in the world. It’s impossible to sum up the entire conference, but here is a snapshot of some of the things we learned at Collision 2019.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Influencer marketing is one of the fastest-growing and one of the most impactful media channels today. AIfluence was founded by Nelson Aseka, George Issaias, Lamusia Anzaya and Ankit Jindal in 2019. There’s a growing ad-blocking movement and key demographics are spending less time in front of TVs. It’s an exciting place to be.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2021

Social media, increased environmentalism and high urbanization were already fueling a boom in popularity. There was a 72% increase in people who camp more than three times a year between 2014 and 2019, mostly spurred by young millennials, young families with kids and nonwhite participants.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

million in seed funding from Crowd Media Holdings , an Australia-based company focused on influencer-based ‘social commerce’ and marketing. London and Barcelona based audio-as-a-service SaaS startup Aflorithmic has scooped up $1.3 “Text in beautiful audio out” is its pithy slogan.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The company powers branded websites, apps, and social media accounts for restaurants as well as its own mobile and web ordering portals. ChowNow has raised $64 million in venture capital to date, most recently a $21 million Series C round in 2019 led by 3L Capital and Catalyst Investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

” Breef was co-founded in 2019 by Emily Bibb and Raptis. Meanwhile, Raptis helped to launch Credible.com, the online loan marketplace that was acquired by Fox in 2019. . “The company will also invest further in its payment infrastructure, allowing structured payments for brands looking to ‘grow now, pay later.'”

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