TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Launched in February 2019, Kroo, the London-based consumer-facing fintech, raised some seed funding last year for its prepaid card service which claims to offer more “social features” in its drive toward offering full-blown banking services. B-Social, the UK fintech building a ‘social bank,’ raises additional £7.8M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ten years later, Earbuds has raised a $3 million Series A round for its social listening app, led by Ecliptic Capital with additional investment from the Andre Agassi Foundation and LFG Ventures. billion in 2018. As streaming services like Spotify grow, social listening apps like Earbuds are emerging too.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

They decide what they want to sell, how much they want to mark the price up and then promote the products on social channels like WhatsApp and Facebook. Singapore-based Raena gets $9M Series A for its pivot to skincare and beauty-focused social commerce. ” Elenas CEO Zach Oschin.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

You might imagine that if two former Twitter chieftains and a longtime C-suite Facebook exec agreed to build a venture firm together, they would chase after nascent social networks. You’d be wrong. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Super uses social commerce and a streamlined logistics chain to lower the cost of goods. The funding brings Super’s total raised so far to more than $36 million, which the company says is the most funding an Indonesian social commerce startup has raised so far. Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli gets $10M led by Go Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Facily, a São Paulo-based social commerce marketplace, has quietly raised over $366 million in funding across four different rounds over the last year. Most recently, Facily closed on a $250 million Series D that was led by DX Ventures and Berlin-based Delivery Hero , with Citius as co-anchor investor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Prior to that it grabbed a $13M Series A in mid 2018. The 2013 founded startup last raised back in January 2019 when it closed a $40M Series B ( news that was scooped by former TCer, Steve O’Hear).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Mayhem was in Y Combinator’s winter 2018 batch and went onto raise $5.7 Other backers include Accel, which led the startup’s Series A in 2018, Afore Capital and NextGen Venture Partners. In a statement, Niantic asserts that the acquisition “reinforces our commitment to real-world social as the centerpiece of our mission.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The X accounts of Jones and Infowars were “permanently banned” from Twitter by the previous management in 2018 for posting abusive content and violating the platform’s rules. Elon Musk has restored the X accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his media site Infowars. All rights reserved.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Read why Ellen Tannam says that social media exposure can increase the cost of a data breach by many times on Silicon Republic : 2018 has been a year dominated by data breaches. Companies from Facebook to Google and Marriott all fell victim to data breaches in the past 12 months. The incidents exposed personal […].

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Hundreds of posts, tens of thousands of readers each month and plenty of social sharing just encourages me further to continue this journey. This year was a slow one for blogging but here is a round up of some of the most popular post written in 2018: Creativity: Jane Kenyon’s Wise Words to Live By.

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A List Apart

JUNE 11, 2020

In the UK, only 37% of people living in social housing are online. In the UK, 10% of the adult population was digitally excluded in 2018. The number of people in the UK lacking basic digital skills is decreasing, but in 2018, 8% of adults in the UK (4.3 Being online can help you feel less alone.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Poparazzi , the anti-Instagram social app that hit the top of the App Store last year, is today, for the first time, detailing the growth stats for its business, its future plans and its previously unconfirmed Benchmark-led Series A round. Among those was the audio social network TTYL , a sort of “ Clubhouse for friends.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

In a society that runs on social media, however, people expect to see trends land on store shelves much more quickly. Founded in 2018, Ai Palette uses machine learning to help companies spot trends in real time and get them retail-ready, often within a few months. Is a product consumed socially or individually?

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Crunchbase News

MAY 9, 2024

By Eugene Krasicki As global startup funding experiences a downturn, with Q1 2024 marking one of the lowest points since 2018 , the landscape for entrepreneurs seeking investment has become increasingly challenging. Let’s go over the key factors that stand to attract investment in sustainable startups and lead to success.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Eight Roads Ventures, the lead investor from the prior round, a $7 million Series A in a 2018, also participated. Mention Me , a platform to generate customer referrals, has raised a $25 million Series B round, led by London’s Octopus Ventures. Its competitors include Friendbuy (raised $1.8 million), Talkable (raised $4.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

In 2013, Taylor founded ET Enterprises; managed a diverse portfolio of companies, including ArtX and GrowthHackers; and served as CEO of MilliSense and PopSocial where he was recognized as Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2018. Taylor also oversaw growth strategy for new social products for a division of Microsoft China.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2023

More than 60% of corporate data is unstructured, according to AIIM , and a significant amount of this unstructured data is in the form of non-traditional “records,” like text and social media messages, audio files, video, and images.

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CIO

MAY 1, 2024

Dopo che le storie sono state derise sui social media, Gannett ha deciso di sospendere l’uso di LedeAI in tutte le edizioni locali che utilizzavano il servizio. Quando ha rilasciato Tay, un chatbot AI, sulla piattaforma di social media, l’azienda lo ha descritto come un esperimento di “comprensione conversazionale”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The platform’s origin story can be traced to 2018 when founders Kelvin Umechukwu and Adetunji Opayele — while running another startup that involved consulting for small businesses — built websites for small business owners interested in coming online for the first time. There’s so much fragmentation in the space.

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Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Hitachi Vantara’s NEXT 2018 event for customers and partners concluded last week. We show cased over 50 discrete solutions in our showcase, made 9 unique announcements and revealed some of the work that we are doing in our Research labs and Centers for Social Innovation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Founded in 2018, Coherent’s platform, called Product Factory, allows insurance providers to digitize their backend operations by uploading Excel pricing models, which means their IT departments don’t need to write new code or re-haul their IT infrastructure. The company also offers three tools for working with customers.

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QAspire

MAY 7, 2018

Each year, SHRM India releases a report outlining top social media influencers in HR space. Read the Full 2018 Report Here (PDF). Last week, the report was released at SHRMTech event in Hyderabad and I was thrilled to find a spot in this report for fifth consecutive year. Download 2015-16 Report Here. Download 2014-15 Report Here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Other commitments mention privacy, social inclusiveness, diversity and equity, fighting all sorts of discriminations and more. In other words, the Tech for Good Summit was created for photo opportunities (like the photo from 2018 below). In 2018, hundreds of organizations signed the Paris Call.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

2018 IFComp Winners -- interactive fiction is nextgen chatbot tech. The physical version of online social networks that are shocked to discover their userbase includes pedophiles, racists, stalkers, murderers, nutters, and malicious folks. Continue reading Four short links: 27 November 2018.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

But the company later pivoted to create a social payments app. In 2017 and 2018, the company pivoted once again to focus on cryptocurrencies. In other words, Circle will have plenty of capital on its hands if the merger goes through. Created in 2013, the company originally wanted to create a mainstream bitcoin payment platform.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Updating: A Set of Bayesian Notes -- Notes on Bayesian methods - written to supplement CS&SS/STAT 564: Bayesian Statistics for the Social Sciences. Continue reading Four short links: 28 December 2018. Bayes Notes, Fake Internet, Tensorflow Privacy, Sortable UUIDs. How Much of the Internet is Fake? (NY

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We examine how a broad range of empirical phenomena, including intuitive physics, concept learning, causal reasoning, social cognition, and language understanding, can be modeled using probabilistic programs (using the WebPPL language). Continue reading Four short links: 26 November 2018.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Autónomos are also typically required to make payments to the state to contribute towards social security coverage — payments Glovo would otherwise have to make had these tens of thousands of riders been classed as employees. While Spain’s Riders Law came into force on August 12, 2021.).

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Talkshoplive CEO Bryan Moore said he founded the company with his sister Tina in 2018, after he led social media efforts at Twentieth Television (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox) and CBS Television. Live commerce is today where social media was 15 years ago. Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Discord’s doubling in corporate value comes as the persistent, inept, American response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate the adoption and growth of businesses creating virtual social networking opportunities. Those opportunities are apparent in Discord’s explosive growth. To date, Discord has raised $379.3

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Agile Engine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

These same two tendencies hold true in 2018. In 2018, the iOS developers’ earnings topped $100 billion. Mobile application development is also on the Forbes’ list of the most-wanted tech skills in 2018. What this all tells us is that in 2018, tech companies will still have to compete for top talent. billion in 2017.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 31, 2018

pop-ups [35%] or to unlock play items [16%]); in-app purchases (30%); prompts to rate the app (28%) or share on social media (14%); distracting ads such as banners across the screen (17%) or hidden ads with misleading symbols such as “$” or camouflaged as gameplay items (7%). Continue reading Four short links: 31 October 2018.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

For those who don’t keep up with teen app trends, both Sendit and NGL are leading anonymous Q&A apps, a subgroup of social apps currently popular among a younger demographic. 12 in Social Networking (Sendit) and No. Anonymous social NGL tops 15M installs, $2.4M Sendit’s apps are currently ranked at No.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space. It also invested in Brazilian social grocery commerce company Favo , which raised a $26.5 million Series A last October.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” Mozilla launched Hubs in 2018, which it pitched at the time as an “experiment” in “immersive social experiences.” “Active Replica will continue to work with our existing customers, partners and community.”

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