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6 most underhyped technologies in IT — plus one that’s not dead yet

CIO

Generative AI and, more specifically, ChatGPT captivated the corporate world in 2023, with board directors, CEOs, and other executives fawning (and sometimes fearing) the technology. But with all due respect, AI is hardly the only critical tech in town. But with all due respect, AI is hardly the only critical tech in town.

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Gen Z social app Yubo rolls out age ‘estimating’ technology to better identify minors using its service

TechCrunch

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.

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New social investment platform Follow taps influencers to mirror their investment strategies

TechCrunch

The new social investment platform enables users to subscribe to a creator’s financial feed and set up an investment portfolio that mimics that particular person’s investment strategy. Social investing is not a new concept. Field’s background is in finance, most recently as COO of Acorns and the CEO of Acorns’ regulated entities. “I

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Reports say African startups raised record-smashing $4.3B to $5B in 2021

TechCrunch

This year, we’ll be looking at figures from data-tracking publications: Briter Bridges , Partech and The Big Deal , and not media ones, for the sake of cohesiveness. From the type of deals reviewed to the definition of an African startup, each factor contributes to the disparities in numbers. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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Flip bags $28M to turn beauty, wellness social commerce on its head

TechCrunch

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. Users post video reviews of their purchases and can see in real-time data how they did, as well as receive commissions from sales that resulted from their posts.

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6 Tech Trends that will reshape Media & Entertainment in 2021

Trigent

By 2024, Over-the-top (OTT) media revenue is predicted to touch $158.84B that’s more than double the $67.8B The number of OTT service users in the United States is expected to reach 198 million by 2021. Here’s our take on 6 technology trends that will influence the media and entertainment world this year.

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Daily Crunch: Japanese marketing tech firm Geniee acquires Zelto for $70M

TechCrunch

wants to help recruiters find technical talent by inferring skills from GitHub code, Paul reports. million of funding for its AI-powered customer video review tool , Kate reports. Today, wind power and wave action are just two technologies leading investors to take a closer look at ocean conservation technology, reports Tim De Chant.