TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. Related to this move, Epic Games’ “ Fortnite Mode” feature , which leveraged Houseparty to bring video chat to Fortnite gamers, will also be discontinued.

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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. Summer International stays ahead of the game by identifying the most influential content creators, and working with them to incubate new brands.

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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. capturing a similar game- and anime-loving demographic as it has in China.

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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. And, as Follow’s creator network grows, users can subscribe to additional creators to better diversify their portfolios. equities to U.S. clients.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Cities like Boulder, Detroit and Austin had emerging tech ecosystems long before the pandemic forced VCs to start taking pitches via Zoom, and social media has leveled the playing field when it comes to networking and PR. 5 tips for launching in a crowded web3 gaming market. 5 tips for launching in a crowded web3 gaming market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. It’s a true game, as we are really using game dynamics to drive financial literacy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Building an investor network from scratch sounds daunting. This is true particularly if, like many founders, you don’t happen to be part of a social or economic circle where striking up early conversations with potential investors is a no-brainer. How do you start a network from zero?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said. Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform. (As

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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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. It’s like a link-in-bio service, but with a social element that encourages young creatives to connect, collaborate and develop friendships. Image Credits: Tagg. People are kind of put into a box.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Media and games helped many of us maintain our mental health during the last couple years of dread, but it isn’t just pure escapism: studies suggest games in particular provide unique therapeutic benefits. For some, the notion of using games as therapeutic techniques may seem slightly outlandish.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Recent cyberattacks at MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment have put the spotlight on cybersecurity practices at casinos – and the importance of educating employees on social engineering tactics. How has the job of a casino security leader changed as games have become digitalized? What emerging technologies are you most excited about?

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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. This isn’t a social network. Zenly still wants to make the definitive social maps app. This isn’t a utility.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Less than a year ago, WildWorks, the makers of the kid’s virtual world game Animal Jam , launched its next big effort with a game aimed at Gen Z teens, called Feral. “Transactions on these blockchains can be more efficient than the credit card networks we use to take payments in most of our games now,” wrote Stacey.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Chums is a social shopping service that helps friends suggest products to their pals. Elion declined to share the network, or networks, his company is working with to secure commercial ties with retailers, but did note that in time Chums will go direct to secure better deals. The list includes Runway , Mono , Pangea and Flux.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Senior executives around the world are realising their business success is irrevocably tied to their network strategy. Yet, the goalposts keep moving amid rapidly evolving network technology, making it harder to stay on a sustainable path of network growth.

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The Parallax

MARCH 22, 2018

In 2020, Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu, China’s most popular social networks, will be required to include all users in social-credit systems unique to their platforms. And each Chinese citizen using these networks will be given a credit score based on his or her online behavior. READ MORE ON CHINA AND CREDIT SCORES.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In fact, according to Palo Alto Networks’ State of Cloud-Native Security Report , 39% of respondents reported an increase in the number of breaches in their cloud environments, even after deploying multiple security tools to prevent them. To this day, Daniel is passionate about reverse engineering video games at his leisure.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Medal.tv, a short-form video clipping service and social network for gamers, is entering the livestreaming market with the acquisition of Rawa.tv, a Twitch rival based in Dubai, which had raised around $1 million to date. CEO Pim de Witte, as to his company’s interest in Rawa. That technology is now coming to Medal.tv.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

With the promise of an interconnected virtual world coming into focus and user-crafted gaming content exploding, Infinite Canvas is looking to apply to the metaverse lessons learned in the esports boom. For the team, this nascent era of user-generated gaming content looks a lot like another now-ubiquitous creator platform once did.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Facemoji is building a plug-and-play tech platform to help game and app developers put avatar systems into their apps with the startup’s SDK. Facemoji believes that more game-makers want to easily build their own avatar systems but don’t necessarily want to plug into other networks. Image Credits: Facemoji.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Launched in the Philippines, social commerce startup Resellee wants to recreate the success of Pinduoduo, one of China’s fastest-growing e-commerce companies, in Southeast Asia. Like Pinduoduo, India’s Meesho and other social commerce platforms, Reselllee does not require sellers to carry their own inventory.

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Invid Group

MARCH 3, 2024

The era of email dominance is evolving, and a strategic shift towards Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) is gaining popularity in many companies worldwide. Today, that exchange happens on social networks through memes, images, and videos. What is an Enterprise Social Network (ESN)?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Discord’s doubling in corporate value comes as the persistent, inept, American response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate the adoption and growth of businesses creating virtual social networking opportunities. Those opportunities are apparent in Discord’s explosive growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

Gaming: With the huge Axie Infinity hack making headlines , we talked about the matter and how other startups are tinkering with the play-to-earn market. And we closed with the topic of social networks , what Elon Musk is up to and how Facebook managed to confirm everyone’s suspicions about its ethics.

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

IBM missed the PC revolution when it started, Kodak didn’t see the potential of digital cameras, all three major card networks ignored peer-to-peer payments, and what has happened to all that Blockbuster real estate? What about the game-changing technologies? Look for large, massively multiplayer gaming experiences with huge adoption.

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Game Developer. Game developers are the programmers who contribute their essential effort to develop a video game for various platforms like Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS. They are well balanced in developing various types of games as per the requirements of the clients. Network System Administrator.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

Hackers can learn a lot from a CIO’s social media Image Credit: Blogtrepreneur Every person with the CIO job knows what social media is. In fact, we all probably have Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media accounts. However, it turns out that there is a downside to social media that we may not be aware of.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The cohort’s theses focused on market-driven DeFi, client-driven social protocols, tokens-as-coordination mechanisms, decentralization of all layers, consumer products unbundling, DAOs as risk-pooling mechanisms and so on. What it does: Exclusive social clubs on top of NFTs. games to web3. games to web3. Stage: Seed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

“The rise of user-generated content (UGC) across gaming worlds, social platforms and beyond means that we need a way for users to pay other users, users to pay creators, and creators to pay their collaborators — even if you don’t know the real identity of the person you’re paying.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

David Thacker, a partner at Greylock, invests in founders building productivity tools, front office software and vertical SaaS, along with marketplaces and gaming. You have questions, and this is why we believe Thacker’s the right person to help you understand and find product-market fit now — when you need it most.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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. Image Credits: Studio app.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

— by playing games, watching videos and completing daily challenges, offers and surveys. Social+ payments: Why fintechs need social features. The Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based startup has a straightforward mission. It wants to give consumers a way to reduce their bills — it claims by an average of 30%!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Software, video and audio streaming, trading services, e-commerce, consumer fintech, gaming and, in some cases, social networking. But Airbnb and Uber and Lyft are doing better than you might have expected. What’s losing favor? And on the previously losing but now winning side, we have lodging and travel to start.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

A good deal of the startup’s momentum has come from their high-profile partnerships with a number of musician and athlete celebrities who have used the company’s avatars for social media posts and various other activations. eth) handles to build out a network of NFT-based avatar identity products.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

That realization came around the same time Park’s parents became empty nesters, and he and his brother watched them struggle to find new social circles and activities. Park points to studies that show that social circles peak at 25. By the time older adults hit their fifties, they have spent years building careers and families.

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