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Blidz raises $6.6M to expand its Pinduoduo-inspired social shopping app

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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. Translating that to today’s internet landscape in regions like Europe and the U.S.

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Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?

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For starters, WooCommerce is used by more sites than Shopify — which those same investors, press and analysts definitely know about. It’s also the lifeline that Automattic needs this decade to rebuild the internet in an open direction. Why should they care? billion with a share buyback a few months ago.

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Fiveable lands $10M Series A to become ‘the hallways of the educational internet’

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Now, it is evolving to become a social learning platform that helps any student navigate high school. We’re the hallways of the educational internet,” said Fiveable co-founder and CEO Amanda DoAmaral. What do students do in the hallways of high school? Image Credits: Fiveable. More than 7.3

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India’s advisory on LLM usage causes consternation

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It also requires that LLMs that are unreliable or still under test only be made available in Indian Internet with explicit permission from the government, and only be deployed accompanied by a warning of their unreliability.

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Google and Twitter veteran maps out a Twitter alternative

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Twitter’s new CEO and owner Elon Musk is rattling the cage at his social network and ruffling a lot of feathers both inside and outside of the company. “We’ve had 15-20 years of content moderation experience on the internet now, and so let’s build that in.” ” Sign up here if you want to take a gander, too.

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Internet and Online Safety for All Ages | App Development

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Internet and Online Safety for All Ages. Since the beginning of the 21st century, social media has become an increasingly important part of most people’s lives. Now, just about everyone has an online identity linked to their real name, meaning that your Internet life and your real-world life are always connected.

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Video: TechCrunch editors share their top stories of 2020

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Disinformation and discord spread like wildfire on social media, but so did important information and documentation of brutality, often via the newly popular medium of live streaming. . Finally, they made big progress with their Starlink broadband internet constellation. Definitely the space industry newsmakers of the year.

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