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How social commerce is bridging Southeast Asia’s infrastructure gaps

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Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. Conceptually, social commerce isn’t new — it has existed in some form ever since people have made recommendations to each other. Globally, social commerce is on the path to becoming a $1.2

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The industrial data revolution: What founders got wrong

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In that Economist report, I spoke about society entering an “Industrial Revolution of Data,” which kicked off with the excitement around Big Data and continues into our current era of data-driven AI. We were focused all the way back then on what we now call the Internet of Things (IoT). And that certainly happened.

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Social music streaming startup Stationhead launches new live commerce tool

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Social music streaming startup Stationhead announced today that it’s launching a new live commerce tool that allows select artists and hosts to sell digital tracks to fans during livestreaming parties on their stations. Stationhead lets you turn your favorite songs and playlists into an internet radio broadcast.

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Daily Crunch: Kanye West reaches agreement to acquire social media platform Parler

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That, that, that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger ” : Two of our top stories for today centered on the same topic — Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, surprising us all by announcing he was going to buy the conservative social media site Parler. The TechCrunch Top 3. Manish has the basics on the deal. You can sign up here.

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Tech layoffs return with a vengeance, Gaza internet collapses and Apple hosts a Halloween event

TechCrunch

Winter’s finally arrived, judging by the NYC weather outside my window — and a winter of a sort might be descending on the tech industry, too, as it unfortunately turns out. Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the past week in happenings around the tech sphere.

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Ethical Social Media: Oxymoron or Attainable Goal?

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For this generation, social media has generated a vast set of new ethical challenges, which is unsurprising when you consider the degree of its influence. Social media has been linked to health risks in individuals and political violence in societies.

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Machine Learning In Internet Of Things (IoT) – The next big IT revolution in the making

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From human genome mapping to Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI),Machine Learning, Blockchain, Mobile digital Platforms (Digital Streets, towns and villages),Social Networks and Business, Virtual reality and so much more. What is IoT or Internet of Things? These objects thus become ‘intelligent’ to a small extent.