TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Conceptually, social commerce isn’t new — it has existed in some form ever since people have made recommendations to each other. Today social networks are more powerful than ever, and startups and corporations are innovating new commerce models that leverage the greater reach available to us.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. She said the team there “unintentionally” built in social elements into Toy Blast and “stumbled” on to a community of players.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The excitement around web3 and the metaverse have pulled plenty of entrepreneurs who defined the first generation of native mobile apps to begin questioning what’s next. Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley is on the co-founding team of a new startup called LivingCities , alongside Matt Miesnieks, who sold his most recent startup 6D.ai

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

And it’s an opinionated take on mobile payments — not just a fresh coat of paint. More importantly, the company is positioning its mobile app as a social product — not a fintech product. A fintech app or a social app. But it has always been a social app. Image Credits: Lydia. We need a new definition for money.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

A diverse collection of students with big ideas will split about $95,000 in prize money after competing in T-Mobile’s Changemaker Challenge. Now, $5,000-10,000 may not sound like a lot to companies pulling in tens of millions, but for a kid just starting out, it could be the difference between pursuing and abandoning a passion project.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The company has been working on a mobile app that lets you easily buy and sell shares, but with a social twist. In particular, Shares wants to make stock trading more accessible from a financial point of view and less daunting thanks to social features. There is also a sort of investment feed that looks like Venmo’s social feed.

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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. Users don’t have to go through multiple steps to claim the assets, he added.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Powder wants to build the video infrastructure for social gaming. While many communities of gamers already share content on Twitch, Discord and Reddit, there isn’t a dominant mobile app focused on gaming. You can also capture videos of mobile games. That’s because Powder didn’t come up with its social app for gamers overnight.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Social gaming platform Rec Room has scored some new funding as it aims to bring its once VR-centric world to every major gaming platform out there. The platform has been around for years serving as a social hub and gaming platform for virtual reality users. The startup has closed a $20 million Series C led by Madrona Venture Group.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Now in this increasingly mobile-first world, we use our phones for everything from apps to ordering to food to connecting with our cars. Mobile data can be disconnected from its user and very voluminous, and our product lets people like engineers look up a user and see what happened.”. Embrace’s App Performance page.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

IRL, the SoftBank-backed social app and recent unicorn , is today announcing its first acquisition. The company is purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the “digital nutrition” company AaBeZe Labs and its portfolio of IP with the goal of making IRL a healthier and more ethically designed social networking app.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Mobility should be a right, but too often it’s a privilege. Shared micromobility, in particular, offers an opportunity for more equitable and accessible mobility within cities, but only if done intentionally. May Mobility reveals prototype of a wheelchair-accessible autonomous vehicle. What does equity mean?

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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. It’s not only a social platform, it is the best post-purchase experience — shipping, rewards, returns — everything people love and in a two-click process,” he added.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The fresh cash will be put toward several efforts, CEO and co-founder Frederic Lalonde said in a press release, including supporting Hopper’s new social commerce initiatives. Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch. Image Credits: Hopper.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Last fall, social analytics startup SocialRank sold its product and business to Trufan , allowing the team to focus on something new: a professional social network. “This is the place for your professional social life,” Taub said. SocialRank sells biz to Trufan, pivots to a mobile LinkedIn.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Kapu , a social commerce startup, coming out of stealth today having raised $8 million seed funding, is hoping to help lessen the burden of buying food for Kenyan consumers, many of whom are grappling with the sky-rocketing food prices. Social commerce platform Tushop set for Kenya growth after raising $3 million pre-seed funding.

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Daffodil Software

JANUARY 10, 2024

User experience (UX) has always been the element of precedence in a mobile app. Our mobile app consulting services offers comprehensive research, prototyping, and usability testing to ensure your app meets user needs across all devices. Designing login screen for a mobile app is a constructive step.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

Bolt Mobility, the Miami-based micromobility startup co-founded by Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, appears to have vanished without a trace from several of its U.S. Bolt Mobility (not to be confused with the European transportation super app also named Bolt ) was on what appeared to be a growth streak about 18 months ago.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Play2Pay founder and CEO Brian Boroff started the company in 2015 based on a vision that prepaid mobile phone users should have an alternative way to pay for their mobile phone service and that wireless carriers would adopt an ad-funded commercial model. Social+ payments: Why fintechs need social features.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Birdie’s wider goal for the business is to use the data its platform is ingesting and structuring to power more personalized — and even preventative — healthcare for the social care sector, which remains drastically under-resourced versus the scale of demand for care services. Series A led by Index. . Series A led by Index.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2021

Goama (also known as Go Games) lets developers quickly integrate social games into their apps. The company currently focuses on Asia and Latin America, where mobile penetration is growing quickly, and works with more than 15 partners, including GCash and Rappi, to enable digital payments and communications. million unique users.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Social calendar app IRL has been busy building a messaging-based social network, or what founder and CEO Abraham Shafi calls a “WeChat of the West.” As users could now network with friends across both web and mobile, IRL began to feel more like a social network, not just an event-discovery engine.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Mobile apps are also on the cards and the funding will be used to build out Capsule’s team as well (currently it’s around four people). ” Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media. That’s now been topped up with seed financing to get a prototype to market later this month.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The team behind Songclip thinks that social media could use more music. VSCO acquires mobile app Trash to expand into AI-powered video editing. “How do you take the music and turn it into the bite that you want to use in a social context?”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

It’s been a little over a year since Ryan Reynolds bought a majority stake in Mint Mobile, a deal that has already had a dramatic impact on the the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). It’s hard to imagine a string of words in the English language less sexy than, “mobile virtual network operator.”

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CIO

MARCH 8, 2023

The pandemic accelerated the urgency for reform in health and social care around the world, which strained resources to unprecedented levels. It all reduces the ability to arrive at a budget settlement that shifts resources into the health and social care space. So you can see how my job has had to react to all of those stimulants.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A true “metaverse” may not yet exist , but that hasn’t stopped marketers from adopting the buzzword to promote their apps and games on mobile app stores. However, mobile game publishers led the adoption of the keyword, as 107 apps in the Game category now reference the term, or 19% of the apps studied.

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The Crazy Programmer

AUGUST 28, 2020

Mobile-friendly pages are essential as more than half of Internet users are on the mobile internet. When working on a website, always think mobile as compared to desktop. The good news is that most optimization practices apply equally to both mobile and desktop Internet. 9 Ways to Speed Up Mobile Website.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California. Now, the Zoox vehicle is ready for an up-close and personal debut at TC Sessions: Mobility.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Linktree’s latest funding will be used on tools that make social commerce easier. This is in partly because people have been spending more time on social media and e-commerce shopping during the pandemic. Beacons debuts a ‘link in bio’ mobile website builder that helps creators make money, not just list links.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A number of startups are experimenting with what a better social app could look like. For a startup called Alms , the answer is a social network that focuses on users’ well-being through participation in creator-led challenges in areas like personal growth, sustainability, and others with positive impacts. Image Credits: Alms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Zenly has always felt like the small social app that could become the next big thing. But it turns it Zenly is quietly becoming a social giant without anyone paying much attention — at least until now. This isn’t a social network. Zenly still wants to make the definitive social maps app. This isn’t another messaging app.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California. Now, the Zoox vehicle is ready for an up-close and personal debut at TC Sessions: Mobility.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Social commerce — the process of buying and selling products or services directly through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok — is becoming the most natural way for consumers to make purchases since people use social media and messaging apps almost every day. trillion by 2030. “Eight in 10 U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Meet Shares , a new European startup that wants to add a social twist to financial investment — in this case, the company means “social” as in “social network” The startup has been developing its product under the radar for a few months already. It is also moving at a fast pace.

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