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Daily Crunch: ‘Copy-from-China’ social media app Lemon8 squeezes its way into US top 10

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Aisha writes that this storyline takes place at the end of the High Republic era before the events of the main Star Wars films. Daily Crunch: ‘Copy-from-China’ social media app Lemon8 squeezes its way into US top 10 by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

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Beams wants to turn collaborative audio clips into a social media biz

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Finding the signal in the noice of social audio is turning out to be the real challenge. Or, well, adding to the social audio noise. Why focus on short-form audio as a social media medium? “We raised $3M in late 2020. Clubhouse closes an undisclosed $4B valuation Series C round, as tech giants’ clones circle.

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4 video content tips for your startup’s growth marketing

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Teach yourself growth marketing: How to perform growth experimentation through A/B testing In recent years, video has morphed into the king of social media content across the globe. These marketplaces make it easy to find talent who can film videos for your startup, and you won’t have to pay a large influencer fee either.

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EWA, which taps into popular media to teach languages, hits 51M downloads and 3.5M MAUs and raises its first outside funding

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In one of the more recent developments, a language learning app called EWA — which has built a media-based approach to language acquisition, with excerpts from films and TV, and books, to familiarize learners with vocabulary and speaking — has passed 51 million downloads and picked up 3.5 million in its first outside funding.

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Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage

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Since those early days, the ratio of structured and unstructured data has shifted as the Internet, social media, digital cameras, smartphones, digital communications, etc. much of it is still stored in physical, or analog, formats such as paper, tape, film, microfiche, etc. have encouraged the creation of unstructured data.

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AI touches everything, everywhere all at once at Disrupt

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In the past six months alone, TechCrunch has written nearly 600 articles focused on the impact of AI technology in our lives across industries as varied as film , healthcare , marketing and supply chains to name but a few. Like it or not, AI is part of our lives from here on out — for better or worse.

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Studio’s private group camcorder app lets friends create ‘episodes’ by combining 10-second videos

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As younger consumers are shifting to social apps that focus on video and more personal forms of social networking, a new social app called Studio , launching today, is introducing a group camcorder experience that allows groups of friends to share videos with one another in private albums. Studio aims to offer a similar vibe.

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