TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The entrepreneur and founder of venture fund Seven Seven Six, speaking at an event at the University of Virginia, espoused a fairly negative view of the current social media landscape and the creator economy — an environment where he says, everyone has “been so trained […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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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, 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

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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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

I am haunted by mulch posts. The most recent mulch video came to me in the middle of the night, when I was hours into scrolling through a particularly nasty bout of insomnia. The video was an edit of a tiny dog surrounded by a frame of glittering hearts, with an AI-generated voice narrating, “Today, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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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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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

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California.

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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. It was an action that the CEO defended on social media. datagroup.ua.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2021

If you’re somewhat famous on various social networks, chances are you are exposed to hate speech in your replies or in your comments. We have developed a technology that detects hate speech on the internet with a 90 to 95% accuracy and only 2% of false positive,” founder and CEO Charles Cohen told me.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

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.

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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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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

The Indian government’s move to remove a number of social media posts critical of its handling of COVID-19 was the key news item this weekend. As the country’s healthcare system buckles, and deaths spike, the move by the current administration to censor the Internet was just about as bad a look you could imagine.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Monetizable mood boards might sound like the moonshot idea that no one asked for, but when you think about it, the vision is already informally happening in various corners of the internet. That’s when they dropped the moving service business, and instead used furnishing as a vector to solve the problem of contextual and social e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

As live audio becomes more and more popular, co-founders David Sacks (former COO of PayPal and CEO of Yammer) and Axel Ericsson sought to combine social audio and podcasting into one seamless app. But Sacks said that once it expands to allow hosts to share transcripts, live captioning would “be on the roadmap.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Now, it is evolving to become a social learning platform that helps any student navigate high school. We’re the hallways of the educational internet,” said Fiveable co-founder and CEO Amanda DoAmaral. What do students do in the hallways of high school?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Education has long served as the key to unlocking economic progress and social mobility. However, unequal access to digital tools has created a large gap between children who have access to fast, reliable internet connectivity in school and at home and those who don’t. We know that access to the internet is essential for learning.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 5, 2024

Most IT teams regularly employ a range of tools to monitor application performance. But in an era where applications are running everywhere from the cloud to the network edge, the visibility being provided is limited. The metrics and analysis being surfaced are roughly akin to only being able to see a few yards ahead when […]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It’s also the lifeline that Automattic needs this decade to rebuild the internet in an open direction. The strategy here is simple: Continue opening up larger swaths of the internet to open-source innovation outside of the walled-garden platforms developed by Amazon and Facebook. billion with a share buyback a few months ago.

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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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Openxcell

MARCH 30, 2023

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.

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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. billion in 2023.

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A List Apart

JUNE 11, 2020

What would your life be like without the internet? Keeping your answers to that in mind, do you think access to the internet is a human right? Living without internet. Globally, over 40% of people still do not have access to the internet. Having no access to the internet creates problems in many parts of modern life.

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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

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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DevOps.com

APRIL 22, 2024

The data used to train AI models needs to reflect the production environments where applications are deployed.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

based social-crypo-community platform for women Eveworld; and inFeedo, an employee retention SaaS platform. . “If Essentially, bringing the power of the internet to that smallest participant in the internet economy is what’s the most exciting aspect of this fund.” .

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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. At the time, these integrations appeared to be the end goal that explained why Epic Games had bought the social startup in the first place. — sima sistani (@SimaSistani) September 9, 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The Indian social network said it has raised $502 million in a new financing round — Series E — led by Tiger Global that valued ShareChat at $2.1 Social commerce Meesho turned a unicorn on Monday , fintech firm CRED on Tuesday and e-pharmacy firm PharmEasy and Groww on Thursday.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We want to work on having more click trust and less clickbait on the internet,” he said. Finally, as we navigate the internet in 2020, the privacy question looms large as is how you balance the convenience-privacy trade-off. He acknowledges that trust and accuracy elements could get tricky as social networks have found out.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The widespread success of platforms ranging from Second Life to Roblox shows that people are open to virtual worlds where they can socialize, play games, exchange information, and share some laughs. To people who don’t live and breathe on the blockchain, the internet in its current state is the metaverse.

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