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Big Cabal Media, parent company of TechCabal and Zikoko, raises $2.3M seed funding

TechCrunch

For years, tech publications run by local digital media startups have worked hard behind the scenes in placing African startups at the faces of global investors, shaping the narrative of African tech and its build-up to an inflection point last year. The Big Cabal Media team. But not long ago, in the mid-2010s, U.S.

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Kraftful wants to lift the veil with analytics for makers of smart home hardware

TechCrunch

You can’t swing an outdated Python manual in this town without hitting half a dozen app analytics suites, but the same cannot be said if you’re a product manager hoping to figure out where you lose customers for smart home hardware. “There isn’t much product analytics in most apps for connected hardware.

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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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How to build a social media app: An entrepreneur’s guide

Openxcell

Forbes reports that the number of people using social media worldwide has reached 4.9 Over the last few years, social media has evolved from being primarily a communication channel and entertainment platform to marketing and growing businesses, contributing to significant social and political discussions. billion in 2023.

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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

CIO

Building a successful data strategy at scale goes beyond collecting and analyzing data,” says Ryan Swann, chief data analytics officer at financial services firm Vanguard. Undervaluing unstructured data Much of the data organizations accumulate is unstructured, whether it’s text, video, audio, social media, images, or other formats.

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Kenyan startup Wowzi secures $3.2 million from 4DX Ventures, Andela co-founder to expand across Africa

TechCrunch

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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Muck Rack, the journalist database, raises $180M in its first outside funding

TechCrunch

On the one hand, the face of “media” and who and what gets attention has changed drastically in the last decade. Social media has a viral element to it that’s completely different from traditional media, and those creating content on there are different, too. Sometimes, they are still journalists.

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