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Social app IRL makes its first acquisition with deal for digital nutrition company AaBeZe Labs

TechCrunch

IRL, the SoftBank-backed social app and recent unicorn , is today announcing its first acquisition. The company is purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the “digital nutrition” company AaBeZe Labs and its portfolio of IP with the goal of making IRL a healthier and more ethically designed social networking app.

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Ethical Social Media: Oxymoron or Attainable Goal?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

For this generation, social media has generated a vast set of new ethical challenges, which is unsurprising when you consider the degree of its influence. Social media has been linked to health risks in individuals and political violence in societies.

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Google and Facebook Diversifying Away from Advertising

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This is because while they dominate the digital advertising market, they cannot displace TV advertising easily. billion of it came from advertising, or just 15 percent. In total, just 43 percent of Time Warner’s revenue comes from advertising. Of that revenue, just $8.5 For Viacom, it’s 38 percent.

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The Landing is bringing shoppable social and collaboration to interior design

TechCrunch

Monetizable mood boards might sound like the moonshot idea that no one asked for, but when you think about it, the vision is already informally happening in various corners of the internet. That’s when they dropped the moving service business, and instead used furnishing as a vector to solve the problem of contextual and social e-commerce.

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Callin, David Sacks’ ‘social podcasting’ app, launches and announces a $12M Series A round

TechCrunch

As live audio becomes more and more popular, co-founders David Sacks (former COO of PayPal and CEO of Yammer) and Axel Ericsson sought to combine social audio and podcasting into one seamless app. But Sacks said that once it expands to allow hosts to share transcripts, live captioning would “be on the roadmap.”

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Former Snap employees raise $9M for Trust, emerging from beta to level marketing playing field

TechCrunch

Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. Then as part of its community, companies share knowledge of marketing buys and data insights typically reserved for larger advertisers. Trust dashboard. E-commerce sales in the U.S.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Why is it that Amazon, which has positioned itself as “the most customer-centric company on the planet,” now lards its search results with advertisements, placing them ahead of the customer-centric results chosen by the company’s organic search algorithms, which prioritize a combination of low price, high customer ratings, and other similar factors?