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TechCrunch+ roundup: 2022 R&D tax prep, social media for founders, managing remote teams

TechCrunch

If you have information, knowledge or experience to share that could help early-stage startup founders, investors and workers make better decisions, please review our submission guidelines and drop us a line. These founders landed early checks by being savvy about social media. (L-R) Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+.

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Gen Z social app Yubo rolls out age ‘estimating’ technology to better identify minors using its service

TechCrunch

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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Flip bags $28M to turn beauty, wellness social commerce on its head

TechCrunch

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. Users post video reviews of their purchases and can see in real-time data how they did, as well as receive commissions from sales that resulted from their posts.

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Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers, including some at AWS

CIO

In his official statement, Jassy said that most of the layoffs in this second round will affect employees at AWS, PXT (People Experience and Technology, the company’s HR arm), Advertising, and Twitch, the popular livestreaming service purchased by Amazon in 2014 for nearly $1 billion. Cloud Computing, Technology Industry

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Tech Layoffs: What To Expect In 2023

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Last year, 1,000 companies including big tech giants and startups, laid off over two lakhs of employees. What are layoffs in the tech business, and how do they impact the industry? Tech layoffs are the termination of employment for some employees by a technology company. What are tech layoffs?

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5 ways to seize the opportunities created by recent chaos in ad tech

TechCrunch

Most recently, media technology stocks have become highly volatile for a host of reasons. For example, the dip in Meta’s customer acquisition performance has enabled ad sales on TikTok to be expected to triple to more than $11 billion in 2022 , which exceeds the combined sales of Snapchat and Twitter.

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Okendo wants to turn your shoppers into buyers through better customer reviews

TechCrunch

No merchant likes a bad customer review and Okendo , a customer marketing platform, announced $26 million in Series A funding today to continue developing its customer review tools for e-commerce brands. Base10 Partners led the funding round and was joined by Craft Ventures and existing investor Index Ventures.