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Live video shopping startup Talkshoplive brings in another $6M

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million raised to date and enables it to scale its product management and technical teams. Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021? Now, the company is looking at food, beauty, fashion, and sports. The new round of funding gives Los Angeles-based Talkshoplive $10.5

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Building Future-Ready Tech Teams

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The ever-increasing skills gap is the bane of IT leaders who aim to build future-ready tech teams. Flexible, scalable, and innovative teams are the future of tech. Future-proofing teams dictates the success of any organization and ensures it stays relevant, in 2021. Hough, Founder of Airblock Technologies . Soft skills.

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6 Tech Trends that will reshape Media & Entertainment in 2021

Trigent

The number of OTT service users in the United States is expected to reach 198 million by 2021. The demand side takes into account the behavioral patterns of the audience while the supply side adopts tech innovations to differentiate their service and content portfolio. in 2023 with eSports being touted as the future of sports.

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UK’s Big Tech regulator ‘to boost switching, cut killer acquisitions’

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However the government still hasn’t confirmed exactly when it expects to legislate to empower the Digital Markets Unit (DMU) — saying only that it will introduce legislation to put it on a statutory footing “in due course.” UK to set up ‘pro-competition’ regulator to put limits on big tech.

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Metafy lands $25M to scale its gaming coaching platform

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This publication last covered Metafy in May 2021 , when the company raised a $5.5 Coached activities on the platform include well-known video game titles and things as far afield from Starcraft as poker and sports betting. How the round came together is illustrative of the high-tempo fundraising environment of 2021.

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Enhancing customer care through deep machine learning at Travelers

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New York-based insurance provider Travelers, with 30,000 employees and 2021 revenues of about $35 billion, is in the business of risk. s unique about the [chief data officer] role is it sits at the cross-section of data, technology, and analytics,â?? This is kind of a team sport for us, so itâ??s s a unique role and itâ??s

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Wonder Brands’ pivot to acquiring e-commerce infrastructure pays off

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We profiled the company in 2021, about seven months after the company first launched to acquire digital brands in the MercadoLibre and Amazon ecosystem. In 2021, the e-commerce roll-up, or aggregator, scene was in full force. At the time, Wonder Brands raised $20 million in venture capital. However, it wasn’t always that way.