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Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

TechCrunch

As with Alchemist’s last few Demo Days, today’s presentations will be entirely virtual and streamed on YouTube. PDT, with 19 companies presenting in all. A list of the companies presenting today follows below plus a bit about what each is doing as I understand it. Pitches are scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m.

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Blidz raises $6.6M to expand its Pinduoduo-inspired social shopping app

TechCrunch

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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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli gets $10M led by Go Ventures

TechCrunch

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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Internet and Online Safety for All Ages | App Development

Praxent

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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Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage

CIO

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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How Much It Cost To Make A Social Media App In 2021

Xicom

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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Decentralized identity startup Spruce wants to help users control their sign-in data

TechCrunch

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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