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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

TechCrunch

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. million in pre-Series A funding.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO

The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. Here are the top cloud market trends and how they are impacting CIO’s cloud strategies.

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Why so many SaaS companies are launching their own media operations

TechCrunch

Around 2003, as blogs began to take hold in the internet psyche , it became clear that these writing tools could be more than an outlet for an individual’s ruminations — they also had vast potential for business and marketing. It turns out that writing a corporate blog was just the first step in a longer, broader media journey.

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Rephrase.ai lands fresh investment to grow its synthetic media platform

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Rephrase.ai, a self-described synthetic media production platform, today announced that it raised $10.6 Rephrase has been aggressive in pursuing high-profile enterprise contracts, however, with a customer base that includes teams at Johnson & Johnson, Amazon, and Castrol. An ad created by Rephrase.ai. Image Credits: Rephrase.

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HubSpot acquires media startup The Hustle

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Marketing software company HubSpot is acquiring The Hustle , the business and tech media startup behind the popular newsletter of the same name. We've had lots of media co's try to buy us. We've had lots of media co's try to buy us. Most ad 1st media companies are dying. We said no.

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Forbes jumps into hot media liquidity summer with a SPAC combo

TechCrunch

What a busy week in the world of media liquidity. The business publication’s news follows BuzzFeed’s journey to the public markets through a blank-check company. Hot media liquidity summer? The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. That’s a sentence you don’t get to write often.

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Kenya’s Uncover raises $1M to expand skincare product enterprise across Africa

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Africa’s beauty and personal care market is growing accelerated by its growing young and fashion conscious population, increasing spending power, and urbanization. The market’s potential has in recent years attracted major brands, with Fenty Beauty by Rihanna and LVMH being the latest entrants. Image Credits : Uncover Skincare.