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Sharify makes it super simple to rediscover your city’s social side

TechCrunch

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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Rise Gardens grows with $9M Series A to help anyone be an indoor farmer

TechCrunch

The company has a total of $13 million in venture-backed investments since Rise was founded in 2017, founder and CEO Hank Adams told TechCrunch. Though he began in 2017, Adams, who has a background in sports technology, said he spent a few years working on prototypes before launching the first products in 2019.

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#742 My Body, My Pixels: A Deep Dive on Digital Autonomy with Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University

Modern CTO

He served as Co-Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review from 2006-2017 and as Editor from 2001-2002. He has been one of the Top 50 Most Downloaded Law Authors at the Social Science Research Network, both All Time and during the Past 12 Months, and is currently ranked in the top 10% in total number of downloads for all fields on SSRN.

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Arabian moonshots may hold huge implications for the whole world

Pandora's Brain

Back in 2017, Dubai, the second-largest emirate within the UAE, appointed the world’s first Minister for AI. Despite being generally optimistic about the future, the Gulf states are also profoundly socially conservative. PwC, the audit and consulting firm, predicts that AI will add $320bn to the GCC economies by 2030.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

Blocksport Blocksport builds Web3-ready platform solutions for the professional sports and entertainment industry to enable tokenization use cases for their fan community. In 2017, MacPaw acquired The Unarchiver. Numo provides a social to-do list that people with ADHD use to complete daily tasks. Incorporated in Delaware, USA.

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Live VR Streaming with React JS, React Native, and Unity

Agile Engine

As of 2017, more than 2.1 This company creates tools and solutions that enable broadcast professionals, sports and entertainment content owners, and corporate event managers to push the boundaries of this new medium. The new product will use machine learning algorithms to optimize video streaming and social experiences.

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Brand Identity: 5 Basic Steps You Need to Cover

Strategy Driven

Point taken, brand messages shared on social media between employees don’t just get 100 but 561% greater reach than the same brand message from the company’ main social media account. Consider Nike which transitioned from Blue Ribbon Sports to the Nike we now know. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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