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

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Startups and VC It’s always nice to have a lot of capital to invest, but managing a large new fund can be even more advantageous right now given that many later-stage companies that put off fundraising last year will likely be in the market come hell or high water in 2023, Connie reports. billion , up from the $1.3 Kirsten has more.

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

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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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Building sustainability at the edge of the enterprise

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The enterprise edge has become a growing area of innovation as organizations increasingly understand that not every workload — particularly new edge workloads — can move to the cloud. Read the complete study compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence in conjunction with Dell Technologies and Intel to dig deeper into these areas.

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B2B social management platform Oktopost raises $20M growth round with Expedition

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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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Social Chat launches with $6M to bring brands closer to their customers

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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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Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

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“Soci became an essential partner to brands for this transformation, which led to an increased need for brands to turn to technology to manage their presence in local digital market channels.” Khoury says he was inspired to found Soci by the dearth of options for brands to manage their presence across digital marketing channels.

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CIO Digital Enterprise Forum 2023: How CIOs can strategically and ethically use generative AI

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The CIO Digital Enterprise Forum will be held in London on Thursday 11 th May at Prospero House, London Bridge. They will focus on the importance of organizations linking analytics with social impact goals and standards of inclusion. Discussion will focus on the human side of cybersecurity in the digital enterprise.