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Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce

TechCrunch

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. of the third-party air travel market in the U.S. “The app is quickly internationalizing.” “The app is quickly internationalizing.”

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Performance marketing agency MuteSix bets on content and data to boost DTC e-commerce

TechCrunch

But LA-based performance marketing agency MuteSix didn’t wait that long to build its business around scaling DTC brands. Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor.

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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

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With that in mind, Sesamm enables businesses to track textual data from across the web — including news portals, NGO reports and social networks — and convert this into actionable insights. “Data sources include highly vetted news organizations, expert blogs and social media. . and Asian markets.

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

TechCrunch

Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple and many more to be the biggest handset maker of them all. Reports on social media show the company’s reluctance to handle consumer complaints.

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3 ways investors can assess the strength of an NFT opportunity

TechCrunch

In the first half of 2021, the NFT market cap grew 2,100%, reaching $2.5 The first NFT was created in 2014 and was sold only last year. Instead, investors should be looking for transparency in a project’s leadership and tech infrastructure. billion in sales volume.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Not to be confused with the ordinary sense of rent as a charge for temporary use of property, economic rents are the income above a competitive market rate that is collected because of asymmetries in ownership, information, or power. Attention is all you need What is the source of big tech market power? What Is Economic Rent?

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Resilience, an introduction.

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In 2014 VUCA was introduced as purpose for resilience. In 2014 the term VUCA was introduced into business management to describe the continuous uncertainty businesses are part of [ Bennett-2014 ]. This make sense making for leadership within organizations very challenging. Bennett-2014] Bennett, N., & Lemoine, J.