TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Kenyan B2B e-commerce company MarketForce has shut down operations in three of its five markets in Africa and is in the early stages of launching a social commerce spinout.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The new social investment platform enables users to subscribe to a creator’s financial feed and set up an investment portfolio that mimics that particular person’s investment strategy. Social investing is not a new concept. He qualifies this because other companies, like eToro, automates trades, but for crypto and outside the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Canopy is a new peer-to-peer social networking app for content creators to connect, crowdsource information and, for lack of a better term, “spill the tea.” The company announced today the launch of its pilot program, with plans to onboard 1,000 influencers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

’s ICO, Canada’s OPC and Hong Kong’s OPCPD, has urged mainstream social media platforms to protect users’ public posts from scraping — warning they face a legal responsibility to do so in most markets. A joint statement signed by regulators at a dozen international privacy watchdogs, including the U.K.’s

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2024

Exploring the critical role of experimentation in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), research on four multinational companies reveals a stark difference in CSR effectiveness. Successful companies integrate an experimental approach, constantly adapting their CSR practices based on local feedback and knowledge.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Linktree’s latest funding will be used on tools that make social commerce easier. This is in partly because people have been spending more time on social media and e-commerce shopping during the pandemic. Linktree raises $10.7M for its lightweight, link-centric user profiles.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you follow #beautytok, #beautytube or any beauty content on social media platforms, you know that popular product trends are hard to keep up with. The company launched in 2018 along with Gushcloud International, an influencer marketing firm. They are also available on Summer.store, the company’s proprietary social commerce network.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Meet Omneky , a startup that leverages OpenAI’s DALLE-2 and GPT-3 models to generate visuals and text that can be used in ads for social platforms. The company wants to make online ads both cheaper and more effective thanks to recent innovations in artificial intelligence and computer vision. After that, you are back to square one.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Substack is adding a new feature to make its platform feel more like a social network, as the company announced on Tuesday that users can now follow writers. The company says that since launching its Twitter-like Notes feature in April, following has been one of the most requested features from writers and readers. .”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Things are bleak in the tech sphere as we close out a year defined by plummeting stocks , persistent mass layoffs and a fall from grace for major social media companies. ” So, is it a good time to be building a buzzy new social app, or is it a complete mess? Fizz closed a $4.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

The company started as a peer-to-peer payment app for the French market. The company recently reached unicorn status and the team has been iterating with more services and features. More importantly, the company is positioning its mobile app as a social product — not a fintech product. A fintech app or a social app.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

When brands sell through social media and other third-parties, they often spend millions of dollars to advertise on those platforms, yet have little or no knowledge of who their customers actually are. Social commerce startup Social Chat is out to change that. Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

With the pandemic forcing people online, social media use exploded, for obvious reasons. More brand-oriented platforms such as Sprinkler, Sprout Social and Hootsuite have obviously risen in use, but so did traffic to Oktopost, a much more B2B-oriented proposition. It can also handle social listening and analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Companies can rescue qualitative survey data from the trash and dig for deeper insights. GenAI can transform the process of collecting feedback from consumers, reaching more people across more demographics than ever before, and learning more about what they really think.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Zenly has always felt like the small social app that could become the next big thing. But it turns it Zenly is quietly becoming a social giant without anyone paying much attention — at least until now. According to the company’s internal data, the app has now reached 35 million monthly active users. This isn’t a utility.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

DJ Gabeau, one of Snapchat Stories’ earliest engineers and founder of web3 social network Primitives , told TechCrunch that he thinks NFTs can be a genuinely enjoyable way for people to connect with one another digitally and make memories. Users don’t have to go through multiple steps to claim the assets, he added.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This is called social proof, which is a physiological effect that influences your decisions every day, whether you know it or not. We’ve found that effectively using social proof can lead to up to 400% improvement in conversion. How businesses use social proof. Social proof for B2B. Social proof for SaaS.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

On a return trip to Southeast Asia (McIntosh was born and raised in Indonesia), she observed the rise of social commerce, or people selling through social media like Instagram and WhatsApp, and was surprised to see it was similar to all the manual work she had put into her online bakery years earlier.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Social gaming platform Rec Room has scored some new funding as it aims to bring its once VR-centric world to every major gaming platform out there. The platform has been around for years serving as a social hub and gaming platform for virtual reality users. The startup has closed a $20 million Series C led by Madrona Venture Group.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2024

Here are the key recommendations I provided: AI training implementation: Introduce AI training aligned with company policies and processes to empower employees with the necessary skills and awareness. I’ve heard of companies creating a separate set of policies for every transformative technology.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Social commerce — the process of buying and selling products or services directly through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok — is becoming the most natural way for consumers to make purchases since people use social media and messaging apps almost every day. Image Credits: SleekFlow. trillion by 2030.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The increasing need to reduce carbon emissions drives many industries, including airlines and transportation, to seek sustainable alternatives to meet emission reduction targets and fulfill corporate social responsibility commitments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to move the traditional independent sales process online. Now the company is back with an even bigger Series B round of $20 million.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Yet, social initiatives tend to be difficult to set, and their progress and impact challenging to measure. In a survey of more than 600 companies, a small number of organizations emerged as more advanced in their social strategy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The company has been working on a mobile app that lets you easily buy and sell shares, but with a social twist. Today, the company is also launching its app on the App Store and Google Play. for now, but the company expects to expand to other European countries in the future. Image Credits: Shares.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

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. The 1,500-employee-strong company — which has an estimated 11.2% The 1,500-employee-strong company — which has an estimated 11.2%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Public App, a location-based social network that connects individuals to people in their vicinity, has raised $41 million in a new round, just six months after securing $35 million as the hyper-local Indian startup looks to expand its presence in the world’s second-largest internet market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

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. Today, the Los Angeles-based company closed on a $28 million Series A led Streamlined Ventures. Our app is like if TikTok and Amazon had a baby.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

And it’s evident that proptech, unlike other industries, has lagged in utilizing social media to make sales. With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook. Does everyone want to be a landlord, or what?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

The company has turned reading into a multiplayer experience as you can build a bookshelf, share notes with your followers and start conversations in the margins. Sure, there are social platforms that let you talk about books, such as Goodreads. The company has also put together a comprehensive book store.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Walkie-talkie, a social audio platform developed by Picslo Corp, has raised a $3.25 Audio was coming back into fashion, especially with Gen Z and with the movement around anti-social networking. The company also plans to scale product, engineering, and operations functions. million seed round led by Heroic Ventures.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Joyned , formerly known as Gamitee , announced Wednesday that it raised $4 million in seed funding to continue developing its e-commerce platform that puts merchants in the driver’s seat of social engagement. Interestingly enough, Abraham came up with the idea for the company four years ago while planning his wedding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

TikTok appears to be working on an integration with Lemon8 , another social app owned by TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, according to new findings from product intelligence firm Watchful.ai. Lemon8, as you may recall, rapidly rose up the App Store charts earlier this year around the same time that U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Evermos is an Indonesian social commerce startup with two goals: to let people earn extra income by opening online stores without spending capital and to help small brands grow into household names. The company says it currently has 100,000 active resellers in more than 500 Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, mostly in Java.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Gamification and social hooks have become cornerstones across every category of consumer apps these days, and today one that’s using these to build out a new e-commerce platform in Europe is announcing a seed round to give its growth a boost. General Catalyst — one of the group of VCs out of the U.S. off a sale.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

APRIL 22, 2024

Here’s a rundown of the businesses that flourished (and failed) in 2023 and how companies should plan to face crises in 2024. In a business landscape where every move or decision is immediately broadcast through the grapevine of social media, companies that are not adequately prepared for a crisis could be left decimated in its wake.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Raven Gao didn’t set up virtual social platform MEW to ride the metaverse wave. He began working on MEW in mid-2019 with a Tencent veteran because he wanted to build a virtual safe haven for socially awkward introverts like himself. The company has not previously announced its funding amount.

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