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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

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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. And that’s why we’ve just gone through this capital raise to experiment with that essentially.”.

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Leap, a ‘social learning’ platform aimed at over 55s, raises a $3.1M seed round

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Leap , a platform for people over 55 to learn via social interaction, has raised $3.1 Leap was founded by Swedish entrepreneur Caroline Ingeborn, former CEO of Toca Boca, a Swedish app development studio that builds learning apps for kids, and Vishal Kapur, former CTO and co-founder of Screenhero, which was acquired by Slack in 2015.

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli gets $10M led by Go Ventures

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?

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The strategy here is simple: Continue opening up larger swaths of the internet to open-source innovation outside of the walled-garden platforms developed by Amazon and Facebook. When Automattic acquired WooCommerce in 2015 , the move went mostly unnoticed in the broader tech community.

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Daily grabs another $40M so developers can add video, audio features to any product

TechCrunch

We’ve all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge to build both real-time audio and video features into products. The company provides APIs so developers can add those features into products or websites using just two lines of code.

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

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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. billion in 2023.

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Fed News Roundup 13 July 2015

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Radiant Group makes deal to boost analytics Washington Technology (Today) - The Radiant Group has acquired data analytics and software development capabilities through the purchase of Human Geo Group. Have you seen what's new for 2015? Here's how you make the most of it. facebook; twitter; google. // 2:58 PM ET.