TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

spending billions of dollars on virtual reality tech every fiscal quarter, the wider VR startup ecosystem has been having a tough few years coming down from the highs of 2016, when investors dumped money into the sector expecting Oculus-sized returns only to see most of their investments slowly wilt away. Despite Zuckerberg & Co.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Brett Martin, the co-founder and president of Kumospace, believes a core piece to easing the transition is workplace collaboration tools — especially video chat tools that foster a “virtual office” feeling. “ When COVID-19 hit, we scrambled like everyone else to go virtual. Image Credits: Kumospace.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Not just around core business needs like comms (Zoom, Slack et al) — but entrepreneurs are also competing to come up with the perfect tool to recreate the social serendipity of office life in order to make dispersed workers feel a bit more connected. The future of office work, post-COVID-19, is driving plenty of startup activity.

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CIO

APRIL 14, 2023

A record number of participants turned out for a discussion group with one of our speakers, Tom Kouloupolous , futurist and chairman and founder of Delphi Group, during our April virtual summit, CIO’s Future of Cloud and Data. Indeed, interaction is what makes a virtual summit a conference vs. a webinar. Text chat was different.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The founding team doesn’t have an awful lot to say about what exactly they’re building, except that it’s a “social layer” for consumers based around interacting with virtual spaces that capture the “spirit” of real-life geographies and cities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Retail giant Walmart announced this morning it’s acquiring the Tel Aviv-based startup Zeekit , which allows consumers to virtually “try on” clothing when shopping online. Image Credits: Walmart. With the deal’s closure, Zeekit’s three co-founders will be joining Walmart.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2021

Goama (also known as Go Games) lets developers quickly integrate social games into their apps. The event is over, but Goama’s virtual booth is still up. The startup, which recently took part in SOSV’s accelerator program, presented last week during CES at the Taiwan Tech Arena pavilion.

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CIO

JUNE 12, 2023

Virtual Agent, or VA, is the next natural step for significantly better customer and business outcomes. For example, you might present a customer with a choice of channels for engagement such as chat, phone, and social media. What is a VA? Another great example is intent recognition.

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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

JULY 14, 2021

As concerts and live events return to the physical world stateside, many in the tech industry have wondered whether some of the pandemic-era opportunities around virtualizing these events are lost for the time being. The virtual concert industry didn’t have as big of a lockdown moment as some hoped for.

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2024

Ahora, Ikea España ha celebrado la primera experiencia de live shopping -también conocida como shopstreaming – de la mano de Laia, una presentadora virtual generada por inteligencia artificial (IA). En España, las plataformas de redes sociales y e-commerce suelen estar más separadas, lo que puede “crear fricción para los consumidores”.

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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. Today, they’re officially unveiling Upstream to the public.

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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

The team’s original idea was to help people who were missing out on social connections under Covid lockdowns find a way to meet others and chat online. And they saw the potential in online, which would sometimes deliver 4x or 5x the attendance of virtual, Coburn points out. The deal was reportedly for less than $50 million).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

As many of us have seen, personal trainers, yoga teachers and similar types of freelance professionals have all had to shift to offering virtual sessions over Zoom and similar platforms. It’s now become a platform for virtual fitness classes, learning workshops and the like, with users in the U.K., Europe, the U.S.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 31, 2022

This led to a forced transition to virtual campus recruiting—which turned out to be a good thing so far! Virtual campus recruiting doesn’t demand a huge budget, eliminates geographical constraints which widen your talent pool, and provides an improved candidate experience to today’s digital-savvy generation—it is a win-win all around.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Users aren’t promised in-game rewards, virtual currency or anything else. Where the product gets more interesting is in its potential social mechanic — something that could work out if the app is able to scale to reach a larger number of users than it has today. It’s just a recommendation. Image Credits: Skich.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In fact, there are dozens of virtual HQ platforms , some venture-backed and some bootstrapped, mixing gamification and productivity into a service. This summer, Microsoft launched Viva Engage , an in-house social media app for employee engagement. It’s not just startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Tushop , a social-commerce platform in Kenya that enables the group-buying of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs), is set for expansion across Nairobi after raising $3 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by 4DX Ventures. Chepkemboi says this arrangement earns shoppers up to 60% in savings, even with the agents earning sales commissions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

One company that is planning to drive the wave of telemedicine across the continent, as the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, is mPharma , a Ghanaian health tech start-up that is set to open 100 virtual centers across seven markets in Africa over the next six months. This is what makes mPharma’s telemedicine unique,” Rockson told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

You can now safely get up and use the bathroom during your next virtual meeting and miss nothing. Breaking and driving : Hyundai and Kia now have free anti-theft software for more than 8 million vehicles after social media posts showed vulnerabilities. It will also capture slide presentations and insert those in the summary, too.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A lot of things are changing quickly with social media, which has become more toxic in some ways and less trustful about safety and security of its users, as well as taking away some of the controls that brands had to engage with their audience on their terms,” Myers said. “It How engaged are your employees?

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CIO

MAY 24, 2024

Cybersecurity has been promoted from the purview of the chief security officer (CSO) to a boardroom environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) responsibility. Issues related to data privacy and security have crossed the boundaries of risk management, and now have a tangible impact on workplace and consumer safety.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The company’s first product, Read Dashboard, is a dashboard for virtual meetings that leverages artificial intelligence, computer vision and natural language processing to measure engagement, performance and sentiment among participants. Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue. Read Dashboard.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As more users think of shopping as a social, digital-first activity, The Landing , a seed-stage startup coming out of stealth, is hoping to win over those who have an affinity for designing homes and spaces. There’s also Modsy, which has raised north of $70 million to date , which helps users virtually redesign their homes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

“From the time we started PubNub the vision was what software is needed to power virtual spaces. . “From the time we started PubNub the vision was what software is needed to power virtual spaces. Services that it currently covers include in-app chat, geolocation, virtual events, push notifications and IoT services.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For this generation, social media has generated a vast set of new ethical challenges, which is unsurprising when you consider the degree of its influence. Social media has been linked to health risks in individuals and political violence in societies.

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TechSoup

OCTOBER 2, 2020

As the pandemic pushes on, libraries are further turning to using social media in an unprecedented manner to attract new members and virtually provide services to their community online. Today we are going to share the latest actionable tips, tricks, and trends to propel your library's social media to the next level.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This includes marketing tests on social media platforms that yielded a respectable return on investment, he added. He said that he doesn’t typically invest at the seed stage, but was impressed with the progress Pancake has made in a short period of time.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Rec Room has been around for just five years (launched in 2016 in Seattle), and it has — at least for now — avoided the fast-rise/precipitous fall that has characterized so many other social gaming hits. There are some 12 million rooms on the platform already, Rec Room said.

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sikorski discusses where attackers benefit from AI and how it will supercharge social engineering attacks. The potential here is staggering, as AI can craft eerily convincing messages in the style of specific individuals, making it a potent tool for phishing attacks and virtually indistinguishable from genuine communication.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The widespread success of platforms ranging from Second Life to Roblox shows that people are open to virtual worlds where they can socialize, play games, exchange information, and share some laughs.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 4, 2021

Virtual coaching can help to improve group interaction or social dynamics in virtual settings where people work together remotely as a group or team. By William Rothwell, Cho Hyun Park.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In a separate survey , staffers — especially new employees — say that requiring video during virtual meetings increases their work fatigue. “CEOs are dissatisfied with their virtual all-hands platforms and badly need something better.” Ed Stevens thinks he has the answer. laughs, cheers) in real time.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Louis, Missouri) A virtual and in-person book club founded to amplify African American literacy and uplift stories with Black and brown characters to encourage more diversity in books. Books N Bros (St.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

All over the world startups are piling into the space marked “virtual interaction and collaboration”. Step forward Cosmos Video , which has a virtual venues platform that allows people to work, hang out and socialize together. Cosmos allows users to create virtual venues by combining game mechanics with video chat.

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