TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This is called social proof, which is a physiological effect that influences your decisions every day, whether you know it or not. We’ve found that effectively using social proof can lead to up to 400% improvement in conversion. How businesses use social proof. Social proof for B2B. Social proof for SaaS.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Public App, a location-based social network that connects individuals to people in their vicinity, has raised $41 million in a new round, just six months after securing $35 million as the hyper-local Indian startup looks to expand its presence in the world’s second-largest internet market.

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InfoWorld

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Internet may be the greatest creation of modern technology, and it is a work in progress. At the heart of its ongoing development are three different visions of what the Internet might become. In this article, we'll explore the three ideas guiding the technological and architectural future of the Internet: Web 3.0,

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Openxcell

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Forbes reports that the number of people using social media worldwide has reached 4.9 Over the last few years, social media has evolved from being primarily a communication channel and entertainment platform to marketing and growing businesses, contributing to significant social and political discussions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Sometimes, the internet’s most viral memes may seem entirely incomprehensible (like when Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne), but the things that captivate our attention online matter. Can you believe that it was only this summer when Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne?

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InfoWorld

MARCH 25, 2024

At the same time, however, frustrated employees are filing trouble tickets over slow internet, customers are dropping out in the middle of online transactions because pages aren’t loading fast enough, and the brand is taking a beating on social media, with one post after another complaining about a poor customer experience.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

IRL, the SoftBank-backed social app and recent unicorn , is today announcing its first acquisition. The company is purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the “digital nutrition” company AaBeZe Labs and its portfolio of IP with the goal of making IRL a healthier and more ethically designed social networking app.

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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. Translating that to today’s internet landscape in regions like Europe and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In one of the largest studies ever on mental health and internet use, the Oxford Internet Institute has declared that there is no “smoking gun” linking the internet with psychological harm.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Linktree’s latest funding will be used on tools that make social commerce easier. This is in partly because people have been spending more time on social media and e-commerce shopping during the pandemic. Linktree raises $10.7M for its lightweight, link-centric user profiles.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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Kentik

APRIL 10, 2023

In the past year, we have used Kentik’s unique datasets to show some of the conflict’s impacts on Ukraine’s external internet connectivity, ranging from DDoS attacks and large outages , to the rerouting of internet service in the southern region of Kherson. 185.64.45.207 Miranda-Media Ltd 201776 76.742 9. datagroup.ua.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

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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CEO Insider

APRIL 29, 2024

Lorenz shares the history of influencers on the internet – primarily through social media – and how they impact our society. This is embarrassing, but I will admit it: I feel out of touch. This realization happened recently while reading the book Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz.

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The Parallax

JUNE 26, 2020

But one oft-used government tactic in some countries to limit the ability of their citizens to communicate and organize has been absent so far: There have been virtually no reports of state-mandated Internet shutdowns in response to the protest. READ MORE ON GOVERNMENT INTERNET INTERFERENCE.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It’s that time of year again where half of your social media feed is clogged with graphics from Spotify’s annual, personalized roundup, and the other half is people whining that they don’t care about your Spotify Wrapped. Happy Spotify Wrapped Day!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As I reflect on the biggest technology innovations during my career―the Internet, smartphones, social media―a new breakthrough deserves a spot on that list. Generative AI has taken the world seemingly by storm, impacting everything from software development, to marketing, to conversations with my kids at the dinner table.

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Xicom

JULY 6, 2021

The first-ever social media acknowledged publicly was Six Degrees, created in 1997. In 1999, the first blogging services gained popularity, introducing a social media wham that is roaring on the internet to the present day. A Glimpse Of Where It All Started. And Look How Well It Turned Out To Be… .

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

Nary a week passes where I don’t hear from a CEO who’s grappling with this social media conundrum: should I, or shouldn’t I? In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on why it’s time to put a fork in the social media debate… Background/Disclaimer. The Truth (as I see it).

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 21, 2021

In its short, 30-year history, the internet has come to transform almost all areas of modern life – everything from how and where we work to the way we shop and find/watch media. Going viral’ – a phenomenon born by social media. The importance of having a strong social presence. The power of posts.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

If you find all the noise around social media to be confusing, rest assured that you’re not alone. If you adapted to desktop computers, fax machines, cell phones and the Internet, then I suggest you need to view social media as the next progression on the continuim of advancement.

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2024

It also requires that LLMs that are unreliable or still under test only be made available in Indian Internet with explicit permission from the government, and only be deployed accompanied by a warning of their unreliability.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Twitter’s new CEO and owner Elon Musk is rattling the cage at his social network and ruffling a lot of feathers both inside and outside of the company. His second company, the native advertising startup Namo Media , he sold to Twitter itself. ” He’s also a big fan of Andrew Chen’s Cold Start concept.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 27, 2014

Hope has been placed on the Internet (particularly on social media) to expose users to more sources of information and diverse points of view. Put another way, most people are unwilling to “stick their neck out” in social situations. By Shannon Perry.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This shows that many modern cyber security challenges are network-agnostic, which means the most popular cyber attack methods typically don’t focus on the network technology the company uses to access the internet. The need for improved rural internet service has been recognized by both governments and businesses alike.

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Praxent

AUGUST 12, 2021

Internet and Online Safety for All Ages. Since the beginning of the 21st century, social media has become an increasingly important part of most people’s lives. Now, just about everyone has an online identity linked to their real name, meaning that your Internet life and your real-world life are always connected.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

River is meant to rethink the way we consume content across the internet. The app pulls stories and content from across the entire internet, including from publishers, Twitter and other social media, etc. adults get their news either “often” or “sometimes” from social media.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Several big names use the product, including Lizzo, Elton John, Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey and Eva Longoria, as well as social media personalities like Zoe Sugg. Komi was built to empower creators. Millions of individuals across the world generate revenue from their online profiles, but many lack the digital toolset they need.

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CIO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Since those early days, the ratio of structured and unstructured data has shifted as the Internet, social media, digital cameras, smartphones, digital communications, etc. Structured data lacks the richness and depth that unstructured data (such as text, images, audio, and video) provides to enable more nuanced insights.

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TechSoup

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

According to a 2022 report by Cloudflare , Internet shutdowns are on the rise as a key way for governments to stop the flow of information, censor citizens, and stifle political opposition.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Stock media and video services are moving in this direction themselves, for example by introducing their own libraries of user-generated content. “This isn’t just about UGC, this is about tapping into the creative potential of the internet,” she said. Image Credits: Catch&Release.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

You’ll need to prick up your ears for this slice of deepfakery emerging from the wacky world of synthesized media: A digital version of Albert Einstein — with a synthesized voice that’s been (re)created using AI voice cloning technology drawing on audio recordings of the famous scientist’s actual voice.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

All major social networks including Instagram , TikTok , and Snapchat have their own take on how collaborations should work. Link tagging is handy for tapes for product reviewers and references to other social profiles of a creator — no need for “link in bio” here. They can add links to a website or tag users in the clip.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Thirdweb was created by Social Chain founder Steven Bartlett and Furquan Rydhan, who was founding CTO of Bebo and AppLovin. “Look at what happened from 1995 to 2000 on the ‘internet’ and use that history lesson to deploy how much will be ‘fixed’ in web3 over the next half decade.

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David Walsh

MARCH 18, 2024

NPM stood for “not my problem” Voting on a poll meant the page would refresh “Social media” meant HotOrNot.com The love sound of the web was a 56k modem connection purrrrr Disabling right-click enforced image security Bitmap (.bmp

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Keeping control over one’s own identity on the internet often requires a substantial sacrifice of convenience, so plenty of users have accepted the status quo of social media platforms being able to access and share their data freely, sometimes even in nefarious ways. Spruce co-founders Wayne Chang and Gregory Rocco.

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