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How to build a social media app: An entrepreneur’s guide

Openxcell

Forbes reports that the number of people using social media worldwide has reached 4.9 Over the last few years, social media has evolved from being primarily a communication channel and entertainment platform to marketing and growing businesses, contributing to significant social and political discussions.

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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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AmazeVR gets another $15M to forge the future of immersive concerts 

TechCrunch

AmazeVR , a virtual reality concert platform that enables users to experience their favorite artists’ VR concerts through content generation tools, announced today it has secured $15 million, which was oversubscribed within three weeks. . Users would join as avatars, hang out with other users, and experience VR concerts together.

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

TechCrunch

Founded: 2021. Founded: 2021. Founded: 2021. Founded: 2021. Founded: 2021. What it says it does: Unai is developing a VR headset and virtual world that aims to help people feel connected to one another in the virtual world. Founders: Maxim Perumal built Relativity, an open source VR headset, at age 15.

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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

To succeed, VR will have to get beyond ultra geeky goggles. Scuttlebutt is a protocol for the decentralized web that’s “ a way out of the social media rat race.” Mark Zuckerberg has been talking up the Metaverse as the next stage in the Internet’s evolution: a replacement for the Web as an AR/VR world. AI and Data.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

TechCrunch

Automakers, suppliers and startups see growing market for in-vehicle AR/VR applications. Despite all of the pomp and promises about the potential for AR and VR, there isn’t a clear understanding of market demand for bringing the technology to cars, trucks and passenger vans. Social+ payments: Why fintechs need social features.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. from a year earlier, and brought in more than $6 billion in revenue, more than $542 million the revenue generated in 2021. It has now moved to Poland and set up the office there.