TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to move the traditional independent sales process online. Social commerce startup Elenas raises $6M and plans for international expansion.

Social 210

Social Fashion Infrastructure Sustainability 210

TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Mio , the Vietnamese social commerce platform, has raised an $8 million Series A, less than a year after announcing its seed round. Founded in 2020, Mio is a group buying platform that focuses on selling fresh produce and groceries in Tier 2 and 3 cities in Vietnam.

Social 248

Social Infrastructure Programming Groups 248

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Powder wants to build the video infrastructure for social gaming. You could call it an Instagram or Snapchat for gamers, but the startup has built specific tools that make it similar and yet different from those mainstream social platforms. Around May 2020, the company had to raise a $1.3

Games 273

Games Social Video Mobile 273

TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California.

Virtualization 265

Virtualization Social Network Games 265

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.

Social 221

Social Games Virtualization Course 221

TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

million Series A announced in October 2020. Linktree’s latest funding will be used on tools that make social commerce easier. This is in partly because people have been spending more time on social media and e-commerce shopping during the pandemic. The Sydney, Australia-based startup’s last round was a $10.7

Social 265

Social Real Estate Company Sport 265

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JULY 30, 2021

Since the pandemic first hit in 2020, it has shuttered offices and industries had to adapt on the fly to continue working remotely. Yes, I am talking about social media, its massive reach, and one form of recruiting that has shot into the limelight – Social Recruiting. What is social recruiting?

Recruiting 147

Recruiting Social Media Strategy 147

TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Tedooo , a Tel Aviv-based social network marketed towards the trade world, has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Stardom Ventures. The company was founded in 2020 after CEO and co-founder Michelle Apelker collected thousands of business cards when visiting several countries to keep track of brands and form partnerships.

Social 225

Social Network eCommerce Systems Review 225

TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Social commerce company Mio is taking advantage of that gap by building a reseller network and logistics infrastructure that can offer next-day delivery to tier 2 and 3 cities. Other participants included iSeed SEA, DoorDash executive Gokul Rajaram and Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal, co-founders of Indian social commerce unicorn Meesho.

Social 252

Social Groups Network Media 252

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Raena was founded in 2019 to create personal care brands with top social media influencers. After several launches, however, the Singapore-based startup noticed an interesting trend: customers were ordering batches of products from Raena every week and reselling them on social media and e-commerce platforms like Shopee and Tokopedia.

Social 233

Social Retail Media Small Business 233

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A number of startups are experimenting with what a better social app could look like. For a startup called Alms , the answer is a social network that focuses on users’ well-being through participation in creator-led challenges in areas like personal growth, sustainability, and others with positive impacts. Image Credits: Alms.

Social 220

Social Sustainability Journal Coaching 220

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Less than a year after it raised a $15 million Series B, Public , a social-focused free stock trading service, has raised a $65 million Series C. Public grew quickly in 2020, expanding its user base by a multiple of 10 since the start of the year. As investing apps boom, Public doubles down on its social focus.

Social 250

Social Fintech Trends Sport 250

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Disinformation and discord spread like wildfire on social media, but so did important information and documentation of brutality, often via the newly popular medium of live streaming. . Darrell Etherington: SpaceX had a tremendous 2020, realizing a lot of things that they’d been working on for years.

Video 271

Video Transportation Internet Media 271

TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

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.

Social 201

Social Weak Development Team Groups Fashion 201

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

But a social, cooperative, fun and cross-platform gaming experience is remarkably hard to find — and Elodie Games is here to change that. The company last raised $5M in 2020 to get the ball rolling and clearly they’ve put that money to good use. But what they showed behind closed doors was clearly enough to secure a $32.5

Games 222

Games Social Weak Development Team Banking 222

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.

Social 246

Social Tourism Travel Network 246

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Drimal, has now launched her own social app, Yoni Circle. The company has been quietly operating in beta since April 2020, but is now making its public launch. The company has been quietly operating in beta since April 2020, but is now making its public launch. Yoni Circle founder Chloe? Image Credits: Yoni Circle.

Social 274

Social CTO Coach Video Exercises 274

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.

Technical Review 210

Technical Review Social Technology Systems Review 210

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

“We raised $3M in late 2020. “We raised $3M in late 2020. Finding the signal in the noice of social audio is turning out to be the real challenge. Or, well, adding to the social audio noise. Why focus on short-form audio as a social media medium?

Social 202

Social Media Groups Film 202

OTS Solutions

MARCH 5, 2020

With this in mind, Here are the top seven trends of the Microsoft Dynamic CRM in 2020. Increased Social Media Integration. 2: Increased Social Media Integration. Social media integration has been a significant component of the Microsoft CRM tool for some time now. The Use of Artificial Intelligence. IoT Communication.

Trends 204

Trends Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence IoT 204

OTS Solutions

MARCH 5, 2020

Here Are Top Seven Trends Of Microsoft Dynamic CRM In 2020. With this in mind, here are the top seven trends of the Microsoft Dynamic CRM Solutions tool in 2020. #1: 2: Increased Social Media Integration. Social media integration has been a significant component of the Microsoft CRM tool for some time now.

Trends 179

Trends Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence IoT 179

TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Peanut , the maker of a social networking app for women, is entering into the investing space with today’s launch of a microfund called StartHER. Crunchbase data indicates female-founded startups globally saw a 27% decrease in funding in 2020 as compared to 2019. Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020.

Network 250

Network Social Healthcare Groups 250

The Parallax

JULY 23, 2020

Hacktivism is alive and well, if a bit weird, in 2020, says Gabriella Coleman, a cultural anthropologist specializing in hacker culture at McGill University. What’s Anonymous up to in 2020? READ MORE ON HACKTIVISM. Is doxing ever appropriate? When hackers target a conference code of conduct.

Fashion 182

Fashion Culture Conference Media 182

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Disinformation and discord spread like wildfire on social media, but so did important information and documentation of brutality, often via the newly popular medium of live streaming. . Darrell Etherington: SpaceX had a tremendous 2020, realizing a lot of things that they’d been working on for years.

Video 183

Video Transportation Internet Media 183

Coding Dojo

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The post Announcing the 2020 Coding Dojo Outcomes and Social Impact Report appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog. It’s amazing to see how Coding Dojo has grown since 2013. We started in a small office building in San … Read more >>.

Social 59

Social Report Web Development Software Development 59

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We’re not drowning in consumer social rounds, for example. To get a handle on edtech in 2020, I went a bit more caveman and decided to look at the sector’s funding totals in 2020 by merely comparing the first and second half of the year. H2 (YTD) 2020 : 135 rounds, $5.25 billion.

Social 179

Social Examples Report Performance 179

Honeycomb

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We’re here at last: the final days of 2020. In our most popular blog of 2020, the benefits of saving 40% on our EC2 bill were so clearly visualized using Honeycomb that we got a shoutout during Andy Jassy’s AWS re:Invent 2020 Keynote. 2020 saw a lot of activity with how Honeycomb supports the OpenTelemetry project.

Lambda 111

Lambda AWS Budget Social 111

Tenable

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The final Patch Tuesday of 2020 includes fixes for 58 CVEs, including workaround details for a severe vulnerability in Windows DNS Resolver called SAD DNS. Microsoft patched 58 CVEs in the December 2020 Patch Tuesday release, including 9 CVEs rated as critical. CVE-2020-25705 | Windows DNS Resolver Spoofing Vulnerability.

Software Review 106

Software Review Windows Systems Review Azure 106

TechSoup

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In 2020, 34.8 The next GivingTuesday takes place on November 30, 2021, and although the movement has a reputation for bringing in a high number of donations, there are many other ways to encourage social change. GivingTuesday is "a global movement that reimagines a world built upon shared humanity and radical generosity."

Social 78

Social Resources Marketing 78

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Disinformation and discord spreading like wildfire on social media, but so did important information and documentation of brutality, often via the newly popular medium of livestreaming. . To get there, Uber offload its micromobility unit Jump , its self driving subsidiary Uber ATG and air taxi moonshot Uber Elevate.

Video 215

Video Transportation Media Social 215

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

I really wish that the business case for social and ecological startups will finally be proven (kind of like Oatly showed with the Blackstone investment). AirConsole — a cloud-gaming platform where you don’t need a console and can play with all your friends and family. What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

Blockchain 361

Blockchain Fintech B2C Software Review 361

CIO

MAY 7, 2024

Emission X was developed by AIQ, a joint venture between ADNOC and G42 established in 2020 to drive an AI-powered transformation of the energy sector towards a more sustainable future. Artificial Intelligence

Energy 195

Energy Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Big Data 195

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A brand new social media platform focusing on social responsibility today announced it snagged $1.2 The hope is to leverage the power of social media for social good. There are so many social movements. million to change the face of fundraising from a Gen Z perspective. There are natural disasters every other day.

Nonprofit 222

Nonprofit Social Media Organization 222

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Indeed, Amsterdam’s logistical and social connectedness is ranked number one in DHL’s Global Connectedness Index. In 2020, the venture industry continued to invest in startups, despite the COVID-19 crisis. The nation’s proximity to the U.K., Belgium, France and Germany makes Amsterdam a natural gateway to those markets.

Trends 233

Trends Technical Review Education Software Review 233

David Walsh

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Looking back on an entire year of one’s professional life is difficult, but when you consider everything that 2020 threw at us, where the hell do you even start? Forget just surviving the professional aspect of 2020, we all deserve a medal, both literally and figuratively, for surviving it.

Software Review 91

Software Review AWS Engineering Virtualization 91

Tenable

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Microsoft patched 87 CVEs in the October 2020 Patch Tuesday release, including 11 CVEs rated critical. CVE-2020-16898 | Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. CVE-2020-16898 , dubbed “Bad Neighbor,” is a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability within the Windows TCP/IP stack.

Windows 105

Windows Software Review Systems Review Advertising 105

Datica

JANUARY 22, 2020

It’s January and that means it is time to make some predictions about health IT trends for 2020. So, without further ado, here are my predictions by category for the year 2020. What previously promising technology will begin to fulfill its potential in 2020? *. What major health IT trends will accelerate in 2020?

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Healthcare Social Systems Review 76