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Medium acquires social book reading app Glose

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Glose has been building iOS, Android and web apps that let you buy, download and read books on your devices. Sure, there are social platforms that let you talk about books, such as Goodreads. There are also some gamification features that help you stay motivated as you read difficult books — you get streak rewards for instance.

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Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce

TechCrunch

Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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Can AI help you binge books? BingeBooks is a new service to do … exactly that

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The pandemic has been terrible for many industries, but the book industry has gotten a rare reprieve in an otherwise dismal past decade. Locked in homes and forced to socially distance from others, us humans have more time on our hands and more need to connect to characters than ever before. No boring book clubs.

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Exploring the digital impact in Northern Ireland’s health and social care system

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The pandemic accelerated the urgency for reform in health and social care around the world, which strained resources to unprecedented levels. It all reduces the ability to arrive at a budget settlement that shifts resources into the health and social care space. So you can see how my job has had to react to all of those stimulants.”

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Fresha raises $100M for its beauty and wellness booking platform and marketplace

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Fresha — a multipurpose commerce tool for independent wellness and beauty businesses such as hair, nail and skin salons, yoga instructors and more, based first and foremost around a completely free subscription platform for those businesses to schedule bookings from customers — has picked up $100 million.

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Chefclub raises $17 million to expand its food media brand beyond social networks

TechCrunch

Chefclub has been building a major media brand on social media platforms. It starts with cooking books, obviously. Chefclub has sold 700,000 books so far. As those books are self-published, the company gets to keep a good chunk of the revenue. Overall, they generate more than 1 billion views per month.

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Daily Crunch: Microsoft dumps Yammer and makes Viva Engage its preferred enterprise social platform

TechCrunch

Today, we bring you a great book recommendation from our very own Dominic-Midori: Long out of print since its original publishing in the 1980s, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the 20th century, and it’s supremely good news that it’s available again. Kirsten has more.

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