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JUNE 1, 2022

Poparazzi , the anti-Instagram social app that hit the top of the App Store last year, is today, for the first time, detailing the growth stats for its business, its future plans and its previously unconfirmed Benchmark-led Series A round. based, and to date, they’ve shared over 100 million photos and videos on the app.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The social commerce market is already worth more than $13 billion in Southeast Asia, but the checkout process is filled with friction. Many sellers don’t have online storefronts and instead use social media and messaging apps, which means payment is made by switching to banking apps or wallets. Image Credits: Beam.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The team behind Songclip thinks that social media could use more music. Yes, music is a big part of the experience on a handful of apps like TikTok and Triller, but Songclip co-founder and COO John vanSuchtelen told me, “That is not the end of how music is going to be a feature, that is a beginning.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

And it’s evident that proptech, unlike other industries, has lagged in utilizing social media to make sales. South African startup Flow wants to change how real estate agencies, developers and agents interact with their end customers. Sperling and Levy founded Flow in 2018 as an app that rewards tenants for early rent payments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A new startup called Gawq wants to tackle the problem of fake news and the “echo chamber” problem created by social media, where our view of the world is shaped by manipulative algorithms and personalized feeds. “I wanted to do something that had a larger social impact.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Walkie-talkie, a social audio platform developed by Picslo Corp, has raised a $3.25 The Clubhouse-like app launched two years ago and currently has 1.2 Giruadie told TechCrunch that Walkie-talkie was created as a side project by two former Voxeet engineers, Corentin Larroque and Valentin Martin. million active users.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The launch was a surprise to many consumers, who wondered why the team behind one of the world’s most iconic social apps would return to startups to focus on one of the toughest areas instead: news. Machine learning is the “future of social” Image Credits: Usis / Getty Images Deciding on their next act took time.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Thirdweb was created by Social Chain founder Steven Bartlett and Furquan Rydhan, who was founding CTO of Bebo and AppLovin. Thirdweb was created by Social Chain founder Steven Bartlett and Furquan Rydhan, who was founding CTO of Bebo and AppLovin. Thirdweb co-founders Steven Bartlett and Furqan Rydhan. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Redbird was created to help everyone in an organization create and run analytics without using code, therefore reducing the amount of bottlenecks that data engineers need to deal with. It also plans to build out its marketplace, where users and developers can exchange apps they create using Redbird.

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Last month in this column , I wrote about how businesses need to “lock up the front door” to their systems to prevent phishing attacks and take a multi-tiered approach to rethinking the identity of their employees, partners, and customers. Social media security has just risen to be a top priority for not only CISOs, but CMOs, CFOs, and CEOs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

The creator will post a phone number on their social media platforms for fans to text, and after messaging that number, fans can pay a subscription fee via Apple Pay or Stripe to get exclusive content sent to their phone. Since Scriber is not an app on the App Store, the platform doesn’t have to pay fees to Apple or Google Play.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This version lets businesses create websites in “60 seconds,” accept payments, manage inventory, handle bookkeeping, fulfil orders and engage customers. They don’t have enough data and insights into what’s happening, what’s being sold and how their products are being sold,” CEO Umechukwu said on a call with TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

There have been countless studies about the damaging effects of social media on mental health, particularly on teens. And yet, most of us just can’t quit social networking. Enter Inpathy , a new kind of social network — a “healthy” one. The end goal is to bring more wellness to the social network world.

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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

MAY 13, 2023

There are many startups looking to combat loneliness — some formed years before the pandemic — including senior-focused ElliQ and Replika , which creates an AI companion, and Infection AI’ s Pi, an emotional support bot. Sap’s research focuses on building social commonsense and social intelligence into AI.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Qeepsake , a New York-based family journaling app, has raised $2 million in seed funding. Text, photo and video responses are then automatically organized into digital journals in Qeepsake’s app. Text, photo and video responses are then automatically organized into digital journals in Qeepsake’s app. Image Credits: Qeepsake.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

By building on top of Twitter’s API, Block Party lets users automate the process of blocking bad actors and creating block lists on Twitter. Block Party launched in early 2021, but now, the company hopes to expand to other social platforms with the help of $4.8 million in seed funding. ” Chou told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

All major social networks including Instagram , TikTok , and Snapchat have their own take on how collaborations should work. A new app called Along wants to remove all these restrictions to allow infinite-length collaboration videos with multiple creators. The app is based on the concept of infinite videos called “tapes.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

On a return trip to Southeast Asia (McIntosh was born and raised in Indonesia), she observed the rise of social commerce, or people selling through social media like Instagram and WhatsApp, and was surprised to see it was similar to all the manual work she had put into her online bakery years earlier.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A women-led startup called Honeycomb is launching its private social app for families, backed by $4 million in seed funding led by Peter Boyce at Stellation Capital. But while that app received plenty of early press , it wasn’t necessarily what families wanted. Image Credits: Honeycomb.

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CIO

AUGUST 11, 2023

Subcategories include natural language generation (NLG) — a computer’s ability to create communication of its own — and natural language understanding (NLU) — the ability to understand slang, mispronunciations, misspellings, and other variants in language. An NLP algorithm uses this data to find patterns and extrapolate what comes next.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

As traditional sports viewership declines among Gen Z, social media and streaming platforms are becoming the favorite destination for young sports fans. “The The Stadium Live app is currently only available on iOS devices. One social feature in the works is called “Clubs,” allowing users to create micro-communities.

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CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Last month in this column , I wrote about how businesses need to “lock up the front door” to their systems to prevent phishing attacks and take a multi-tiered approach to rethinking the identity of their employees, partners, and customers. Social media security has just risen to be a top priority for not only CISOs, but CMOs, CFOs, and CEOs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

While there are plenty of other places to record short-form video these days, most of these exist in the social media space, which isn’t appropriate for a work environment. Popcorn, on the other hand, lets you create the short video and then send a URL to that video anywhere you would want to add a personal touch to your message.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Meta’s fires community dev manager following sting : Meta, the parent company of Facebook and other social properties, has parted ways with a “manager of global community development,” we report. We just can’t stop talking about you, thanks to the fact that your former CEO keeps annoying the larger technology scene on the socials.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

DJ Gabeau, one of Snapchat Stories’ earliest engineers and founder of web3 social network Primitives , told TechCrunch that he thinks NFTs can be a genuinely enjoyable way for people to connect with one another digitally and make memories. Only a handful of “whales,” or big spenders, still own the majority of NFTs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Radio has long been described as the most intimate of media. Joining the fray is Heart to Heart , an audio-first dating app aiming to bring back some intimacy to the process of finding the right person for your next foray, whether that’s a saucy encounter or a mate for life.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Let’s look at the three growth trends we saw in 2021 and how they will shape marketing in 2022. which made it so that apps required your permission to track your online behavior and serve personalized ads. The change severely limits advertising algorithms and how much data can be used to optimize marketing campaigns.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Post , a Twitter alternative of sorts that’s rethinking how publishers should engage with social media — and how they should monetize their readership — has opened its doors to the public. But Post doesn’t want to be just another Twitter clone. Videos autoplay, often in their own pop-up windows.

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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

JUNE 29, 2021

While the digital revolution has transformed nearly every social interaction and communication type in the past couple decades, the humble birthday card has shown surprising resiliency. ” The app monetizes through a $3.99 ” The app monetizes through a $3.99 Image via Givingli.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A new startup called Insight is bringing web browser extensions to the iPhone, with the goal of delivering a better web browsing experience by blocking ads and trackers, flagging fake reviews on Amazon, offering SEO-free search experiences, or even calling out media bias and misinformation, among other things.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A startup called Matter , which aims to build a better reading app for today’s internet, is launching out of private beta testing and announcing the close of its $7 million Series A, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures.) At the outset, one of Matter’s larger goals was to help people make better decisions about what to read.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Copy.ai’s software costs $35 a month and can, for example, write a blog post outline based on a few sentences and create link descriptions for Facebook ads and even generate a company motto. One recent feature is Editor, which enables users to organize thoughts, save ideas and edit notes directly in the app. This follows a $2.9

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

The performance of a mobile app can impact how customers perceive a brand. According to a survey from Dimensional Research sponsored by HP, 53% of app users who responded said they’ve uninstalled a mobile app with issues like lag, while 37% said that they hold an app responsible for performance problems.

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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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