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College social app Fizz is growing fast – maybe too fast

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Things are bleak in the tech sphere as we close out a year defined by plummeting stocks , persistent mass layoffs and a fall from grace for major social media companies. ” So, is it a good time to be building a buzzy new social app, or is it a complete mess? Fizz closed a $4.5 Fizz told users about the issues via a blog post.

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Social Chat launches with $6M to bring brands closer to their customers

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When brands sell through social media and other third-parties, they often spend millions of dollars to advertise on those platforms, yet have little or no knowledge of who their customers actually are. Social commerce startup Social Chat is out to change that. Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?

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Black Swan analyzes social media to predict which products will be successful

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Black Swan taps into data from conversations on social media and analyzes the data to map “growth opportunities” for companies, attempting to identify trend signals more accurately than traditional market research approaches. market share and supporting product development, according to King. ”

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Sellscale uses generative AI to create better marketing emails

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Everyone who has email knows what a canned marketing email sounds like (and has probably deleted tons of them). Aakash was in growth engineering at Nextdoor, while Ishan held a position in McKinsey’s Growth, Marketing and Sales Service lines. But badly written emails result in few replies and also make companies look bad.

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Capsule gets $1.5M to build ‘super simple’ decentralized social media

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That’s now been topped up with seed financing to get a prototype to market later this month. ” Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media. So there could soon be a bunch of apps built atop its network touting social networking services without the meddling hand of Big Tech.

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Daily Crunch: Apple’s M1 chips have an ‘unpatchable’ hardware vulnerability, say MIT researchers

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Pacman on the attack : Carly writes that MIT researchers, while applying a “Pacman attack” test on Apple’s M1 chips, undiscovered a doozy in the way of an “unpatchable” hardware vulnerability that could allow attackers to break through its last line of security defenses. Getting in on a growing market : The International Finance Corp.

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5 questions startups should consider before making their first marketing hire

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Jamie Viggiano is the chief marketing officer at Fuel Capital , an early-stage venture capital firm investing in consumer, SaaS and infrastructure businesses. “Who should my first marketing hire be?” The nature of the marketing function has expanded significantly over the past two decades.

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